That Bethlehem David absolute favorite of the king category at the junior world championships, there was no doubt: a year ago he also excelled among adults, silver at the World Championships, European medals in the relay, most recently an individual bronze at the Canadian stage of the FINA World Cup – more recently two years in junior He became European champion, by the way – read the newsletter of the Hungarian Swimming Association. -But the fact that he is much better than the other teenagers is impressive – just like at the (adult) European Championships in Rome, he left the pitch behind and this time the others didn’t even get a chance to catch up. So much so that in the end Dávid took the most dominant victory in the history of the Junior World Cup: he beat by 4:32 minutes the other two Italian boys who finished in the gold medal – as they say, he had already showered and is changed when he reached the next milestone …
Unfortunately, our other appetizer, Hambardzumyan Arshakot was disqualified: after the yellow card was booked, he committed another foul which was not tolerated by the judges – a pity, even though he was in 4th place, that is, he could have scored valuable points.
Dávid repeated it anyway Kristóf Rasovszky his historic double: in 2016 Rasó was the first in the history of the sport to become European and world champion in the 10 km among young people in the same season – and since then we know what a dizzying course he ran (swam).
For the ladies Bettina Fabiano And Simcsak Mira fought a much more serious battle at the front, a team of six fought up to 7,500 meters, until on the last lap the two Hungarians and Spaniard Candela Sanchez tore up the others and decided the fate of the medals between them. And Fábián Betti managed the start perfectly: he passed at the maximum at the best moment and finally reached the panel two seconds ahead of the Spaniard, while Mira crossed the line four seconds after Sanchez.
World Cup second day couldn’t be more perfect than this, and even a Hollywood screenwriter would be envious of the romantic ending, after all. the two world champions form a couple in lifePlus, as Bettike revealed, Dávid has been helping her a lot mentally in the last few days, which was best indicated by the tears of joy and a huge hug at the end of their joint video interview.
(Cover photo: Dávid Betlehem. Photo: Zsolt Czeglédi / MTI)
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