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The pair of Andrin Gulich and Roman Röösli secured Switzerland’s second gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade. Raphaël Ahumada and Jan Schäuble win silver in the lightweight double sculls.
Halfway through the race, Gulich/Röösli were still 1.03 seconds behind the Irishman Nathan Timoney/Ross Corrigan. In the third 500 m, the 24-year-old from Zurich and the five-year-old from Lucerne took the lead; at the finish the lead over second-placed British Tom George/Oliver Wynne-Griffith was 2.37 seconds.
Gulich/Röösli have only been rowing together since this season. The two won the European championship title at the end of May. They also decided the overall World Cup in their favor. Now came the coronation. It is the second World Cup medal for Röösli, after he won silver in the double sculls in 2018 together with Barnabé Delarze, who retired from rowing.
Second medal
Ahumada/Schäuble also traveled to the Serbian capital as European champions and overall World Cup winners. The 22-year-old from Vaud and the 23-year-old from Nidwalden were at the top of the first three intermediate times. However, after 1500 m it was already clear that Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy were once again unbeatable. O’Donovan became world champion in this category for the fourth time in a row and for the third time he won with McCarthy. The two also won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021. Ahumada/Schäuble were in turn challenged hard in the final meters by the Italians Gabriel Soares/Stefano Oppo. But at the finish they managed to save a lead of 39 hundredths.
The women’s double sculls consisting of Célia Dupré, Pascale Walker, Lisa Lötscher and Fabienne Schweizer had no chance in the battle for a medal. The quartet lost 3.44 seconds to the third-placed Chinese and took fourth place. The gold went to Great Britain.
Andri Struzina won the world title in the non-Olympic lightweight single scull on Friday. (SDA)
Source : Blick
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