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Lasersegler Buhl is world champion

2020-02-16T06:53:48.650Z


Malbourne (dpa) - Lasersegler Philipp Buhl won the world championship in the Olympic one-handed dinghy class in Melbourne's Phillip Bay.


Malbourne (dpa) - Lasersegler Philipp Buhl won the world championship in the Olympic one-handed dinghy class in Melbourne's Phillip Bay.

With an impressive series (4/1/1/1/1/2/2/2/5/6/10/5) in twelve races, the 30-year-old Sonthofen won his first World Championship title after World Championship silver (2015 ) and twice World Cup bronze (2013, 2018). In the excellently occupied World Cup field of 124 boats from 44 countries, Buhl's victory was already a race before the end. Silver and bronze went to Australian Matt Wearn and Croatian Tonci Stipanovic.

Buhl was lucky to see his happiness at the finish line. "There was total inner satisfaction above all," he said. With his World Cup gold, the helmsman from the North German Regatta Club has written a chapter in German sailing history down under. For the first time in the 46-year World Cup history of the laser class, which has been Olympic since 1996, a German player won the title.

Buhl also ended the black series of German sailors who had not won a world title in an Olympic discipline for 20 years. At the turn of the millennium it was Roland Gäbler / René Schwall (Bremen / Kiel) who sailed for gold in the Olympic tornado. For Buhl himself, the title marks the perfect opening of the Olympic year.

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Source: merkur

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