The Netherlands Saturday morning swim caught in the open water.
Sharon Rouwendaal, Ferry Weertman and Marcel Schouten were at the five kilometers for teams third gold medal at the European Championships in 55 minutes, 47 seconds and eight tenths Greece and Germany too quickly.
Weertman and Van Rouwendaal grabbed by the gain their second gold medal at the European Championships. Both were previously the best in the individual 10 kilometers. Furthermore, Van Rouwendaal picked up on the five kilometer also a silver medal.
Schouten was the team competition, the first part in this European Championship. He comes Sunday still in action on the 25th kilometer.
The Dutch team was already halfway to head on the rowing and canoeing course in Berlin Grunau, but then had only 1.9 seconds ahead of the Greek team .
During the match, the margin was still further increased. The gap with the Greeks ended nearly twenty seconds. Germany was almost half a minute slower than the Netherlands.
For the team competition to choose country or place them a woman and two men or two women and one man. The teams start every sixty seconds and swim on time. The time of the last swimmer passes the finish line is decisive.
Netherlands did for the first time since 2008, participated in the event. At that time, the team fifth. Sunday is the last day of the open water swimming in Berlin. Monday starts swimming on the long course, also with lots of Dutch participants
By:. NU.nl/ANP
Picture: Reuters
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