Austria’s swimmers are also waiting for one after the second day of the European Championship long course pool competitions in Paris Semi-final promotion. Surprisingly, the fastest Austrian in the 100 m crawl was on Tuesday morning Lukas Edl with a personal best of 49.45 seconds (46th). For experienced people Heiko Gigler It only took a time of 49.75 seconds (57th). A time of 48.55 seconds would have been necessary to reach the semi-finals. All five OSV swimmers were eliminated.
“We already knew that the boys were strong. It wasn’t my best race,” said Gigler. The Carinthian cited his now greater focus on the 50 m distance. “You noticed it at the back,” admitted Austria’s record man, who is now also worried about his participation in the 100 m medley relay. Christian Giefing (55./49.68) and Viktor head (71./50.23) completed the OSV quartet in the 100 m crawl distance.
Luca Karlwho moved indoors after his open water triple, took 26th place in the 800 m crawl (8:14.49). The Frenchman received strong applause from the home crowd Nathan Muratory off, the 18-year-old flipped over 200 m backstroke in junior world record time of 1:54.87 as the fastest lead.