Australia’s open water swimming ace Chelsea Gubecka has landed one other world championship silver medal, dropping out on 5km gold in Doha solely after an exhilarating duel with double champion Sharon van Rouwendaal.
Queenslander Gubecka, who took silver on the 2023 championships in Fukuoka over 10km, took the battle to the Dutch all-time nice over the past of three laps across the previous port within the Qatari capital on Wednesday, solely to be overhauled by van Rouwendaal’s electrical burst over the past 150 metres.
Attacking from the entrance, 25-year-old Gubecka was nonetheless greater than a physique size forward of van Rouwendaal turning into the ultimate sprint for the ending boards.
But the Dutch former Olympic champion turned on the afterburners to energy forward and win by simply over a second, clocking 57min 33.9sec to finish the golden double after her weekend 10km triumph.
Even on the end, Gubecka had the power to battle again in direction of van Rouwendaal and maintain off the problem of eventual bronze medallist Ana Marcela Cunha as she completed with a flourish in 57:35.0.
Gubecka’s Dolphin teammate Bianca Crisp ended twenty fourth of the 65-strong discipline, in 59:06.00.
“It was more durable than I believed to sit down and watch the 10km earlier this week so it actually nice to get on the market,” mentioned Gubecka, who had determined to sit down out the ‘marathon’ race to focus on ocean swimming’s ‘dash’ with Paris in thoughts.
“At this time’s end result cements that what we’re doing at dwelling is true, so I am actually joyful to stroll away with a silver … Sharon (van Rouwendaal) is such a category act … and there is one race to go for us.”
The open water program finishes with the combined 4×1.5km combined relay on Thursday, with Gubecka prone to swim alongside Moesha Johnson, who completed fourth within the 10km occasion, Kyle Lee and Nicholas Sloman in a powerful quartet.
Within the males’s 5km, Dolphins newcomer Robert Thorpe (51:59.1) stayed in contact with the lead pack to complete sixteenth with Bailey Armstrong (53:23.5) ending up twenty third.
