Germany's Wellbrock wins marathon swim gold medal 2021-08-05 HKT 08:46 Share this story Florian Wellbrock shows off his guns after a convincing victory in the marathon swim. Photo: AP Germany’s Florian Wellbrock has added a gold medal in marathon swimming to his bronze medal at the pool, winning the men’s 10-kilometre race at Tokyo Bay. Wellbrock raced out to an early lead and was up front most of the way on another sweltering morning in Tokyo. Even with the race starting at 6:30 am local time, the temperature was already 27.2 Celsius with 80 percent humidity. The stifling conditions apparently got to France’s David Aubry, who dropped out of the race with less than two laps to go and was carried off the deck on a stretcher. There’s no word yet on his condition.