Rome - He let Michael Phelps sovereign again behind him, but Paul Biedermann's great performance as the start of the 4x200-meter swimming freestyle relay before Felix Wolf, Yannick Lebherz and Clemens Rapp filed only rank fifth
Gold went to the United States, which reached with 6:58,55 minutes one of the five world records on Friday. The European record in the forward (7:03,19 min) increased the Russians (silver) Biedermann & Co. again, as a German record remains the brand stand.
Saturday is for Biedermann something else on the program - a visit with Pope Benedict XVI.