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[heywoodu 16,465]

Finally! Oh my that was about time  

[Federer91 3,386]

Hmm, this seems rather ..... unusual swim from a European in mid-April. 

[Ethan 12]

I think Bierdamann's 200 free is his last world record standing, hopefully Popovici gets it soon (unfortunately he had to retire today from Romanian Nationals after a promising 47.30 in the prelims cause of back pains).

[dullard 744]

13 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Hmm, this seems rather ..... unusual swim from a European in mid-April. 

He's often fast in April.

 

3:41.60 2022-04-09 Swim Open
3:40.33 2024-04-25 135. German Championships

 

And now this one.
 

[phelps 8,730]

 Spring Nationals, Day #1

 

men's 50m back: in Ceccon's absence, 2 youngsters dominated the field...Christian Bacico (2005) won the title and improved himself up to 24.83

Daniele Del Signore (2007) ended up in second place with 25.21

 

women's 800m free: always only Simona Quadarella...8.24.25 for her, just enough to win the title and earn herself the official ticket to the world champs next Summer

 

men's 200m fly: Alberto Razzetti easily won the race in 1.55.06 (only 7/100 outside the qualifying time), but he said he's not feeling well at all and he's worried about the next days and races

 

women's 100m breaststroke: the race of the championships in day #1. despite Benedetta Pilato gave up the final after a poor heat performance, we already have both world champs qualifiers: Anita Bottazzo won the title with a huge PB in 1.05.82, followed by Lisa Angiolini in 1.06.01. Arianna Castiglioni ended up in 3rd place and therefore she's gonna miss the world champs (at least in this race) despite a good 1.06.22

 

men's 400m free: Marco De Tullio easily won the race in 3.46.90. Summertime sadness (cit.) for a race that was always so successful for our Country and now it's one of the poorest

 

women's 400m IM: Anna Pirovano won in 4.40.77, which is her PB, but also a depressing time considered that she was just a few tenths of a second outside the old NR at the 300m mark and finished almost 7 seconds shy of said record (still held by Alessia Filippi since Beijing 2008)

 

men's 50m free: Leonardo Deplano destroyed the field, took the title home and earned the official ticket to Singapore with 21.62. all the remaining swimmers were above the 22" mark.

 

finally, in the women's club 4*100m relay, Sara Curtis swum her new PB over the distance in the first leg, she improved by half a second up to 53.72 (and she could have gone faster, if didn't "die" in the last 5/10 meters)

if she can repeat herself in the final of the individual race, this would be a qualifying time for the world champs

[phelps 8,730]

 Spring Nationals, Day #2

 

sleepy and somehow disappointing day in Riccione...until the last individual race of the day, when the unthinkable happened: the next big thing in Italian swimming revealed herself well earlier than expected 

 

Alessandra Mao, in fact, despite being only 14 (not even sure she already turned 14, actually), won the National title over the women's 200m freestyle in 1.58.86 

 

given that she basically doesn't have a decent start nor turns and she's not doing any power training in the gym yet, I hope (and think) she has room to become a world star in the next few years

 

Today's other champions:

 

women's 50m back: Sara Curtis, 27.90

 

men's 50m fly: Lorenzo Gargani, 23.32

 

women's 100m fly: Costanza Cocconcelli, 58.04

 

men's 100m breastroke: Nicolò Martinenghi, 59.16 (world champ qualifying time...good to see the Olympic champion back on track, despite not in his best shape both mental and physical); in the same race, Ludovico Blu Art Viberti slept big time in the morning heats and was forced to swim in the B Final, which he won in 59.04 (but since he didn't do it in the A final, the time is not accepted as a world qualifier for now)

 

women's 200m breaststroke: Francesca Fangio, 2.23.67 (only 7/100 of a second outside the world champs qualifying time)

 

men's 100m back: Christian Bacico, 53.61

[dullard 744]

Sara Curtis improved her 100 free PB to 53.57 in the heats  

[phelps 8,730]

3 hours ago, dullard said:

Sara Curtis improved her 100 free PB to 53.57 in the heats  

let's see if finally she can improve Pellegrini's record (53.18) later Tonight...

 

it's gonna be difficult (given that her PB was 54.22 until last Sunday, when she went down to 53.72 in the relay), but not impossible 

 

meanwhile, Alessandra Mao paid the prize of Yesterday's emotions and media attention and this morning she swum only the 16th time in the heats of the 100m free  (still, she improved her PB by more than a second, from 57.54 to 56.52)

[Gianlu33 6,029]

And Pellegrini is gone on the 100!
 

Italian Record for Sara Curtis in the 100 free with 53.01

[Biathlonfan 836]

four golds for Lithuania in a stockholm meet,verrrrrrrrrry niceand the young guys are looking good too.