Lea Boy gave the German open water swimmers a silver medal at the end of the swimming competitions at the World Championships in Budapest.
The European Champion only had to bow down to the Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha after the photo finish on Thursday over 25 kilometers, who was two tenths of a second faster than Boy after 5:24:15.00 hours.
Third was ten-kilometer world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal from the Netherlands.
Cunha had already won over five kilometers in Budapest and won bronze over ten kilometers.
"Fortunately, it was enough in the end, it could have been fourth place," said Boy, who had already won gold in the relay last Sunday: "In the end, I was able to get everything I could out of it." Debutante Elea Linka, who had led the field for a long time, finished sixth in the 28-degree warm Lupa Lake.Only 15 women started, 13 of whom also pinned.
The Italian Dario Verani had previously won the men's race after 5:02:21.50 hours.
With an energetic final spurt, he prevented the title hat-trick of Frenchman Axel Reymond, who became world champion in 2017 and 2019.
Third was the Hungarian Peter Galicz.
Germany's Andreas Waschburger and Ben Langner finished 11th and 13th.
For the German open water team it was the fifth medal after two gold medals and one silver and one bronze.
Previously, Olympic champion Florian Wellbrock and Co. had won silver three times and bronze once in the Duna Arena pool.