Swimming at the Aquatics LEN European Championships 2024

[Epic Failure 355]

Gorbenko went 4:34.87 at Mare Nostrum, so she's already in the range to take advantage if Grimes/Forrester don't find their 2023 form.

[heywoodu 14,901]

These 200 fly heats yesterday  

 

Basically we got heats because two of the four Hungarians needed to be dropped (due to that utter bullshit '2 per country in the semis' rule, but alright) and because 1 unfortunate soul needed to be the reserve  

 

Spoiler

 

[phelps 7,628]

1 hour ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Her best shot at a medal is in the 400 IM. Bronze looks pretty wide open.

 

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Silver is wide open too IMO. Grimes sure on paper would be the favourite,  but she went 4:35 at Trials… 

 

Gorbenko winning a medal would likely require a massive PB though. 

I still think the Olympic medals in the women's 400m IM will be closer to the 4.30 dead mark than many people expect right now

[Josh 10,310]

31 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

I still think the Olympic medals in the women's 400m IM will be closer to the 4.30 dead mark than many people expect right now

Guess we’ll have to see 

 

I think it’s possible with Grimes and Forrester, but they aren’t consistent enough to be marginal favourites for medals. 

[Epic Failure 355]

Summer will be in the warm down pool by the time that 4:30 comes about.

[phelps 7,628]

Day #7 (Last) Finals

 

men's 1500m Freestyle

 

 Kuzey Tuncelli, 14.55.64

 Mykhailo Romanchuk, 15.00.99

 Zalan Sarkany, 15.06.67

 

men's 50m Freestyle

 

 Kristian Gkolomeev, 21.72

 Stergios Marios Bilas, 21.73

 Vladyslav Bukhov, 21.85

 

women's 50m Breaststroke

 

 Dominika Sztandera, 30.55

Veera Kivirinta, 30.65

 Olivia Klint Ipsa, 30.90

 

men's 100m Backstroke

 

 Apostolos Christou, 52.23 

 Evangelos Makrygiannis, 52.83 

 Ksawery Masiuk, 53.56

 

women's 200m Fly

 

 Helena Rosendahl Bach, 2.07.88

 Lana Pudar, 2.08.15

 Boglarka Kapas Telegdy, 2.08.22

 

men's 200m IM

 

 Hubert Kos, 1.57.21

 Ron Polonsky, 1.57.36

 Berke Saka, 1.58.62

 

women's 400m Freestyle

 

 Ajna Kesely, 4.06.56

 Barbora Seemanova, 4.06.72

 Francisca Martins, 4.10.94

 

men's 400m Freestyle

 

 Felix Auboeck, 3.43.24

 Dimitrios Markos, 3.47.44

 Antonio Djakovic, 3.47.62

 

women's 4*100m Medley Relay

 

 3.58.71

 4.01.50

 4.02.03

 

men's 4*100m Medley Relay

 

 3.33.41

 3.33.44

 3.33.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Makedonas 2,127]

On 6/22/2024 at 4:29 PM, phelps said:

Day #6 Finals

 

women's 50m Freestyle

 

 Petra Senanszky, 24.56

 Theodora Drakou, 24.59

Julie Kepp Jensen, 24.79 

Big NR for her and quota for the Olympics, so in her 4th Olympics she will compete in an individual event now and not just a relay like she did in Tokyo, incredible for her to be improving at age 32 after being around for so many years and she seemed like she was finished not too long ago 

 

Also great for her to win a second medal here after never having a European Championships medal, and this time in an Olympic category, and honestly with that time she would've won a medal in 2022 anyways so it's not like she just got 'lucky' that some big names were missing this year!

[Josh 10,310]

Ah yes, Greece, my favourite European swimming powerhouse 

 

 

(my reaction to their performance this past week)

 

Must be all of the gyros that they’re eating 

[Makedonas 2,127]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

Day #7 (Last) Finals

 

men's 50m Freestyle

 

 Kristian Gkolomeev, 21.72

 Stergios Marios Bilas, 21.73

 Vladyslav Bukhov, 21.85

 

men's 100m Backstroke

 

 Apostolos Christou, 52.23 

 Evangelos Makrygiannis, 52.83 

 Ksawery Masiuk, 53.56

 

men's 400m Freestyle

 

 Felix Auboeck, 3.43.24

 Dimitrios Markos, 3.47.44

 Antonio Djakovic, 3.47.62

Incredible for us to have two 1-2 finishes within 5 minutes 

Overall a great Championships for us, with 17 total medals, we had previously never won more than 6 (and the last two editions for example we only won 3 medals each time). Yes, many of the big names were missing, but I still think we would've probably had our best European Championships regardless, some of our swimmers did great with huge PRs and NRs 

 

Also we got 3 new quotas for Paris here in Belgrade. We should have several swimmers make finals in Paris, and hopefully someone can sneak a medal, which would be our first ever Olympic medal in the pool  (we've only won in open water).

[Makedonas 2,127]

13 minutes ago, Josh said:

Ah yes, Greece, my favourite European swimming powerhouse 

 

 

(my reaction to their performance this past week)

 

Must be all of the gyros that they’re eating 

Hungary still won the medal table but we were second, honestly the future of Greek swimming looks good. The likes of Christou and Gkolomeev won't be around forever, but I think they'll stick around until 2028, and some of our youngsters like Siskos, Makrygiannis, Papastamos, Bilas, Markos, Damasioti, etc. were very impressive here, and now it was announced that our 15 yo breaststroke talent Ntoumas will be going to Paris on one of the relay teams 

 

And finally our women's swimming team (which has gone really downhill since London and especially since Rio), seems to be slowly on the rise again, with many other young talents like Pyrili, Angelaki, Vasilaki, Rakopoulou. Hopefully more to come as well.

Edited June 23 by Makedonas