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Bleyer Posts Personal Best, Finishes Fifth in Both World Championship Solos

Recording an unmatched difficulty score, she highlighted national bias in judging after narrowly missing Germany’s inaugural World Championship medal.

Overview

  • She placed fifth in both the technical and free solo events in Singapore, falling 1.9837 points short of the bronze medal in the free routine.
  • Her routines featured the highest difficulty of all competitors and yielded a personal best of 237.5600 points in the free solo final.
  • Bleyer criticized the Artistic Impression scoring, suggesting judges favored certain nations in their evaluations.
  • Limited federal funding of €40,000 for the synchronised swimming team required an additional €17,000 in crowdfunding to fund their World Championships trip.
  • She continues intensive daily training under former world champion Ona Carbonell and aims to secure 2028 Olympic qualification in the duet with Amélie Blumenthal Haz.