Defending champion Reitshammer at the European Swimming Championships despite finishing sixth out

Only the top two from an association are allowed to advance to the semifinals. Reitshammer therefore has to watch.

We also made it to the semifinals Iris Julia Berger ninth in the 200 m freestyle.

Reitshammer won the first of three seeded heats and was probably a bit of a victim of less competition. Because in the last heat, Gigler and Mladenovic chased with the Greek, knowing that they had Reitshammer time Andreas Vazaios (52.09) across the lengths. The Swiss was five hundredths behind these top three Something Ponti two years ago in Otopeni/Romania he came second behind Reitshammer and ahead of Vazaios.

Gigler came sixth and can and wants to take the next step.

Gigler came second despite a faulty run

The Carinthian saw his run as “riddled with mistakes. I think there is still enough left for the semi-finals. The final is the minimum goal.”

Mladenovic, on the other hand, stressed himself by improving his best time by eight tenths and by getting promoted. At 8:10 p.m. he will be in the final of the 100 m breaststroke on Wednesday evening. His medley semifinal is scheduled four minutes after Gigler’s at 8:29 p.m. “It went quite well,” said Mladenovic. “In the evening in the finals and semi-finals, we’ll be all in and see what comes out.”

Iris Julia Berger’s run for a place in the final is scheduled for 7:38 p.m. In 1:55.63 minutes she reduced her best time from last year by eight tenths and was a positive surprise after she had recently complained about shoulder problems and therefore has a reduced program. “I didn’t expect the time at all. I couldn’t swim at all for three or four weeks.”

Comeback athlete Marlene Kahler came 25th over the 200 m distance in 1:57.61, Aviva Hollinsky (1:59.70) and Nida Omid (2:01.54) were personal bests of 31st and 35th respectively.

There were no junior European champions for men over this distance Christian Giefing with a personal best time of 1:44.63 minutes as 37th 1.19 seconds to the semifinals, Alexander Trampitsch took 58th place in 1:47.27. Luca Karl pushed his previous top mark over 1,500 m free crawl in 14:49.35 minutes by 10.64 seconds, but missed Felix Auböcks OSV record by just 1.22 seconds and was 17th.

Lukas Edl was disqualified in the 100 m individual medley due to a turning error.