FINA World Championships 2013: Thomas Lurz powers his German teammates to gold in Team 5km event

AKUATIK INDONESIA, The team from Germany fueled by 33 year old Thomas Lurz captured the 5km Team event today. Isabelle Harle and Christian Reichert were part of the gold medal winning German team finishing in 52:54.9. Lurz now has a complete set of medals after having previously place second in the 5km on Saturday and third in the 10km on Monday. In the 2011 Shanghai edition the German team, which include Lurz and Harle, placed third.

Spyridon Gianniotis led the Greek team to their silver medal performance posting a time of 54:03.3, more than a minute slower than the German champions. Gianniotis won the Olympic gold medal in the 10km at the London Olympic Games and was the winner of Monday's 10km in Barcelona.  Kalliopi Araouzou who finished fourth in both the women's 5km and 10km and Antonios Fokaidis joined in his team's efforts.

Just two tenths of a second back was the team of Brazil which has been swimming extraordinarily well in this harbour. Poliana Okimoto Cintra, the winner of Tueday's women's 10km race was teamed with Allan Do Carmo and Samuel De Bona and the trio swam well enough to earn a bronze medal. Australia was fourth, Italy finished fifth and the USA, the reigning champions from Shanghai placed sixth.

MEDALS TABLE (26/7)

NF	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
CHN	6	5	2	13
RUS	5	2	-	7
GER	2	1	2	5
BRA	1	2	2	5
GRE	1	1	-	2
TUN	1	-	1	2
USA	1	-	-	1
CAN	-	2	1	3
ITA	-	2	-	2
ESP	-	1	4	5
UKR	-	1	2	3
MEX	-	-	2	2
MAS	-	-	1	1
TOTAL	17	17	17	51