Berlin.
Berlin.
Shortly before the final evening always the medals table pool competitions will be displayed on the video wall at the European Swimming Championships in Berlin. On Wednesday night, Germany was not on the first page, because only room for ten nations exists. And after the first race attracted the Faroe Islands by the silver of Pal Joensen over 1500 meters freestyle at the German team over, which had won the first two EM-days only bronze by the back swimmer Jan-Philipp Glania. The good news: The two silver medals of Paul Biedermann’s 200m freestyle (1: 45.80 minutes) and Philip Heintz 200m individual medley (1: 58.17) pulled Germany back to the sheep islands by
<. p> For the 28-year-old Paul Biedermann was the second place after a one-year break from competition, the return to the world class, for the 23-year-old Philip Heintz the first great success in his career. Both would have been possible: Biedermann led until shortly before the finish and had to leave to catch the Serbs Velimir Stjepanovic nor the smallness of two hundredths of a second. Heintz was only seven hundredths after the Hungarian Laszlo Cseh the finish.
Only Stjepanovic was faster
As Biedermann was still on the way to the interview zone, Britta Steffen was who retired a year ago, double Olympic champion from 2008, already sporting her opinion on her life partner from. “Paul is a super-race swim,” she said. “The two hundredths of a second will hurt him, but I admire him. The pressure to succeed has not broken him, but made stronger. I have so do not get. “
A few minutes later she could take her boyfriend in the arm. The smile was the world record holder, the double world champion in 2009, even heavy. “But will the longer the race is over, the greater the joy,” he said. The Serb Stjepanovic pushed the stop over yet at Biedermann. Had he sensed that he was not optimal slipped on the target wall, Germany was asked it to advance. The response was also reflected in his face: “I have only felt pain.”
In the preparation Biedermann was sidelined because of an illness of three weeks. “I have no idea what influence played out,” said Biedermann, who missed the final 400-meter freestyle on Monday. “At the end of the force me to be a little expected.” After all, it was enough to have the French Olympic champion Yannick Agnel in third.
Due to a protracted viral infection Biedermann had been the entire 2013 season expose. He is more relaxed than before the forced break. After the healing of his type infection he has for months just did what he felt like. It was a new life without drudgery in the weight room, without kilometer long tile counting in the chlorine water. “I could enjoy life very different,” he says. Biedermann admits that he has thought in the past few years only from workout to workout. For things above the pelvis little time remained. “Everything is relative,” he says, “the floating world is so small. This does not mean that I think they are unimportant “
Olympics remains the goal
In the break he has noticed that something is missing”. Swimming is the sport that I love most and do best. “And the silver of Wednesday in Berlin has given him a new lease. His great destination are the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio he wants to get the desired medal at last after two fifth places in 2008 and 2012. The silver of Berlin is only a stage on the great journey of Paul Biedermann.
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