Olympic champion Weertman wins 10k gold at Budapest worlds


17th FINA World Aquatics Championships – 10 km Men awarding ceremony – Balatonfured, Hungary – July 18, 2017 – Ferry Weertman (gold) of the Netherlands poses with the medal. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Olympic champion Ferry Weertman added a world championship 10km gold to his Rio 2016 open-water title at Hungary's Lake Balaton on Tuesday.

American Jordan Wilimovsky, world gold medallist in Kazan in 2015 but only fifth in Rio, took silver and France's Marc-Antoine Olivier the bronze.

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