​File Photo – Florian Wellbrock holds the gold medal at the award ceremony after the 1500m men’s freestyle race of German Swimming Championships at Europasportpark. Christoph Soeder/dpaGermany’s Florian Wellbrock completed an open water swimming title double at the European championships in Wednesday when he added 5-kilometre gold to that from the 10km in Paris.Wellbrock dominated from the start and held off a late challenge from Hungarian David Bethlehem who like the previous day had to settle for silver. The bronze went to Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri.Wellbrock came good in the River Seine after his Olympic fiasco from 2024 when he neither medalled in the open water there nor later in the pool events.The 28-year-old has achieved the 5/10km double at the 2023 and 2025 world championships as well.He now has five medals overall at the Euros, three of them gold. He also has 11 golds and 16 medals in total from world championships and Olympics.Wellbrock has said he will not compete in the pool events in Paris next week.