Swimming World Championship
Synchronized swimmer Bojer with a top 10 result in the final
Came tenth in her solo performance: Marlene Bojer in action. Photo: Uncredited/AP/dpa
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Synchronized swimmer Marlene Bojer is one of the ten best in the world in the solo free program competition.
Synchronized swimmer Marlene Bojer is one of the ten best in the world in the solo free program competition.
Thanks to a strong performance at the world title fights in Budapest, the woman from Munich scored 84.2000 points and took tenth place. It was both the highest number of points and the best World Championship result by a German athlete since the separation of technical and free program in 2007. The Japanese Yukiko Inui won her second title with 95.3667 points after the competition in the technical program also won the free program. She relegated Marta Fiedina from Ukraine and Evangelia Platanioti from Greece.
“I can not believe it. It’s all like a dream at the moment, »said Bojer. The 29-year-old reached the final four times in four starts in Budapest. After two eleventh places in the technical freestyle in solo and in a duet with Michelle Zimmer, she has now managed to place in the top 10. On the following day, Bojer competed with Zimmer as the last World Championship competition, the duet performance in the free program.
An incident occurred during the solo decision: the American Anita Alvarez fell unconscious in the pool immediately after her performance. She had to be rescued by her trainer and another person. 30 minutes after the incident, a caregiver announced that Alvarez was doing well. The fainting spell was stress-related and was not the first of its kind.
