Feel the water in the Odaiba Marine Park.
Not 30 degrees as feared, but also not 28 degrees, as the triathletes reported from Tokyo Bay last week.
"Somewhat okay," that sounded, national coach Bernd Berkhahn said on Sunday.
Christoph Becker
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Now it was a little warmer.
His Magdeburg swimmer Finnia Wunram did not need ten kilometers in the open water competition to find out that the Tokyo bathtub is not really for her.
"From lap to lap" it got worse, all in all the swimmers scratched a 1.4 kilometer loop seven times.
Wunram crossed the finish line in tenth place, around a minute and a half behind the Brazilian winner Ana Marcela Cunha.
Leonie Beck, who prefers warm water, got along much better.
She tried to set the pace early on, tactically clever in order to be in a good position at the refreshment points.
And the Würzburg woman tried after about three quarters of the distance to shake off the competitors, tightening the pace again.
But Cunha and also the Olympic champion from Rio de Janeiro, Sharon van Rouwendaal, went with them and had more strength and speed in the finish line. Rouwendaal came second, ahead of Australian Kareena Lee. Leonie Beck finished just 4.3 seconds behind Cunha - fifth place. "Tried everything, risked everything," said Leonie Beck afterwards. “A fifth place at the Olympic Games, I can be proud of that. I think that was the best open water race of my career. "