Bettina Fabian finished 9th in her first World Championships and Anna Ullach finished 12th in her record-setting sixth 10km World Championships in Fukuoka – a commendable achievement, but they weren’t too happy with it. In reality.
Just the usual: 62 starters, many classics, around eight thousand metres, it’s all about position, and then in the last two thousand metres, but mostly in the last eight hundred thousand metres, the pole positions are in the lead.
The two Hungarian girls traveled with the field in the first two laps, and more so in the second, and then Anna Olas came out on top immediately – in the third she was in fifth place – then Bettina Fabian also moved forward, so much so that on the fourth lap she was third at the start . Then, as analyzed later by their coaches and themselves, they made many small mistakes that were incongruous at this point, on such a high-quality field, and there were also some mistakes that were difficult to deal with.
During the major update by Anna Olasz, for example, a French nobleman simply drank the energy drink offered to her, after which the Judge’s ship appeared in the middle of the perfect curve and latched on there completely incomprehensibly, so the girls had to avoid the speedboat … a lot of Things depend on such little things, for example, Anna said, until then she could see who was going where, but then she was completely surprised, and then realized with hindsight that the front group had already accelerated.
After the competition, Bettina Fabian listened for a long time to the analysis of her coach, Gergely Kotassi, who had previously participated in the World Cup, although she was aware that it could have ended with several good decisions; It’s not like a ninth-place, top-ten ranking as a World Cup rookie, is something to be ashamed of even for a moment. Ana Olas finished not far behind, in 12th place – in the old qualification system this meant that only Bettina could swim in Paris, but according to the new system only the top three from there got a quota – if they finished the same way in February Next, in Doha, both of them will be able to go to the Olympics.
By the way, the first gold medal of the World Cup was won by Germany’s Leonie Beck, surprisingly second was Chelsea Gubica, and American Katie Grimes was third – ahead of the two former Olympic champions Sharon, winner of Rio. van Rowendaal and the first in Tokyo, Ana Marcella Cunha.
formulations
Bettina Fabian
“Actually, 9th is like 4th… I can’t say much good at the moment, I still feel a little sorry about what happened, all I can think of is what I could have done differently. With time, I’m sure That I would be more satisfied with the result. I still have a lot to learn, to gain more experience, because this was my first World Cup, so I can’t be upset. Obviously I have to work harder to be able to do better than this, But I really hope it’s a lot better than this.”
Italian Anna
“The whole year was like this, a lot of smiles, then a lot of crying… To be honest, the whole competition came together very well, I put it together very well in my head that day, and I have to say, it’s been a while.” Long since it all came together like I planned, lap after lap, I even managed to focus a lot the whole time, which is why I was bothered too, but really, that in the end only finished 12th Of course, my drink was taken away because the judges came ahead, but this is included in open water.The problem was that in those turbulences, I didn’t notice when the lead was gone, and by the time I realized it was already too late, even though I could have easily gone with them, I didn’t get left behind because I didn’t The first eight were easy, but compared to the disastrous results of my competitions this year, it can still be said that this is good… In fact, after the competition, what came out of me in the form of tears was that in the previous months I had wondered Seriously asked if my place is still in the international field, and today the answer came that I can completely keep up with it, but I can cry, because the final ranking does not necessarily reflect this, and this feeling of loss is very serious for me.”
