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Wellbrock, who won gold in the 10km open water event at the
Tokyo Olympics, clocked 14:06.88 on Tuesday to better Gregorio
Paltrinieri's mark of 14:08.065.
"Since I've always preferred long course, earlier this year I
did not think of breaking the world record here as honestly I
had ridiculous times in short course," Wellbrock said.
"I think my personal best was almost identical with my long
course top time.
"Then, I had a really good race in Kazan (at the European short
course championships), where I clocked 14:09.88 and from that
point I knew anything was possible here."
The German won a bronze medal in the men's 1,500m freestyle in
the Tokyo pool this year.
Wellbrock's world record was the fourth of the meet after
Margaret MacNeil in the women's 50m backstroke, Siobhan Haughey
in the women's 200m freestyle and Sweden's women equalling the
Americans' mark in the 4×50m medley relay.
The United States topped the medal charts with nine golds (30
total medals), followed by Canada with seven golds (15) and
Italy with five (16).
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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