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Oliver Zeidler loses and wins

2021-06-08T13:53:43.253Z


Third place in the regatta, victory in the overall World Cup: Oliver Zeidler can be satisfied. Third place in the regatta, victory in the overall World Cup: Oliver Zeidler can be satisfied. Sabaudia / Schwaig - The first defeat of the season set it for Oliver Zeidler. The 25-year-old Schwaiger had to be content with third place in the World Cup regatta in Sabaudia, Italy. Nevertheless, he had reason to be happy, because this placement meant winning the overall World Cup. The next major eve


Third place in the regatta, victory in the overall World Cup: Oliver Zeidler can be satisfied.

Sabaudia / Schwaig - The first defeat of the season set it for Oliver Zeidler.

The 25-year-old Schwaiger had to be content with third place in the World Cup regatta in Sabaudia, Italy.

Nevertheless, he had reason to be happy, because this placement meant winning the overall World Cup.

The next major event is now the Olympic Games.

In previous World Cup races, the rower Zeidler has always been able to grab the gold enamel from the "gift table". This time it was “only” bronze (6: 39.47 min.), Gold went to the Norwegian Kjetil Borch (6: 39.12), silver to the Dane Sverri Nielsen (6: 39.32). Then the 25-year-old Schwaiger was allowed to take the trophy of the overall World Cup winner, but it broke apart and fell to the ground. "The cup was already broken before," asserts Zeidler. "I picked it up, but the base wasn't glued on."

The World Cup weekend did not go that well for him, he notes. “In general, the preparation wasn't that good, and I didn't get into the regatta that well either.” Nevertheless, he easily made it to the finals of the six best. “The preliminary and semi-finals were sovereign because I didn't have the strongest opponents there either. Then I made the best of the situation and saved a lot of energy. ”In the run-up, the 25-year-old won with a time of 6: 57.38 minutes, in the semifinals he took 6: 57.57 minutes. by.

The conditions were difficult, with very strong winds, says Zeidler. "That would have been an exclusion criterion for me in the last few years to win a medal at all," he admits. The final was then "extremely fast". The Italian Gennaro di Mauro took the lead right from the start and pulled away, but soon had to let the competition pass, finally collapsed completely and was finally knocked off last, more than 22 seconds behind. The Croatian Damir Martin (6: 43.41) and the Pole Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk (6: 50.81) played no role. At the front, Borch and Nielsen fought head-to-head, Zeidler always rowed just behind - to the finish.

The man from Schwaiger was satisfied with “that I have proven that I can approach the real top scullers within three tenths of a second. In the end there were five hits that were missing, so I noticed that I was running out of strength because I was too out of round, too loose. "But Zeidler immediately sent a declaration of war to the competition in the direction of the Olympics:" These five hits I'll get one in the next few weeks. That is a good motivation. "

Overall, he is not dissatisfied at all because it was very close in the end.

"I have shown that I can row even in difficult conditions, and I have shown that I can still win a medal even in bad conditions and in bad form," states the man from Schwaiger.

“It has always been my goal to be one of the sure medal contenders even on a bad day.

I showed that, and therefore there is no reason to be unhappy. "

For Oliver Zeidler, preparations for the Olympics are now beginning.

“Now we're going straight to the training camp in Austria, where we prepare and work a little on the basics, that means strength and endurance,” he says.

But before that, a short detour to Schwaig is the order of the day - sticking the cup: "Let's see if I can get the cup repaired at home."

Source: merkur

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