Swimming 2021 Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,285]

British Trials, Day #3 Highlights

 

- Max Litchfield, men's 400 IM, 4.12.67 (OQS, swum also by the 2nd ranked, Brodie Williams, with 4.12.95)
- Alys Thomas, women's 200m Fly, 2.08.09 (OQS)
- men's 100m Free: 1st: Duncan Scott, 47.87 (OQS); 2nd: Matthew Richards, 48.23; 3rd: Thomas Dean, 48.51; 4th: Jacob Whittle, 48.76
- James Wilby, men's 200m Breast, 2.08.06 (already previously qualified); 2nd: Ross Murdoch, 2.08.98 (OQS)

[phelps 8,285]

also underway this week are the Australian Swimming Championships...

 

here you can find all prelims and finals results in full:

 

http://liveresults.swimming.org.au/SAL/2021OPEN/

 

among the already completed races, some are worth to be mentioned:

 

- women's 200m Free: Ariarne Titmus, 1.55.43 (followed by Madison Wilson, 1.56.26 and 3 more girls at 1.57.X)

- men's 200m Free: Kyle Chalmers, 1.47.03 (with 3 more guys at 1.47.X, among them Elijah Winnington)

- women's 200m Fly: Brianna Throssel, 2.07.20 (followed by the 16 year young Elizabeth Dekkers with 2.07.82)

- women's 100m Free: Emma McKeon, 52.49 (followed by Cate Campbell with 52.85 and 3 more girls at 53.X)

- men's 100m Free: Kyle Chalmers, 48.04 (followed by Jack Cartwright at 48.81 as the only other sub-49 clocking)

- women's 100m Back: Kaylee McKeown, 58.60 (followed by Emily Seebohm with 59.22)

 

n.b. the highly expected Elijah Winnington didn't swim the men's 800m Free (won by Thomas Neill in a modest 7.51.X)...

[Grassmarket 4,030]

51 minutes ago, phelps said:

also underway this week are the Australian Swimming Championships...

 

here you can find all prelims and finals results in full:

 

http://liveresults.swimming.org.au/SAL/2021OPEN/

 

among the already completed races, some are worth to be mentioned:

 

- women's 200m Free: Ariarne Titmus, 1.55.43 (followed by Madison Wilson, 1.56.26 and 3 more girls at 1.57.X)

- men's 200m Free: Kyle Chalmers, 1.47.03 (with 3 more guys at 1.47.X, among them Elijah Winnington)

- women's 200m Fly: Brianna Throssel, 2.07.20 (followed by the 16 year young Elizabeth Dekkers with 2.07.82)

- women's 100m Free: Emma McKeon, 52.49 (followed by Cate Campbell with 52.85 and 3 more girls at 53.X)

- men's 100m Free: Kyle Chalmers, 48.04 (followed by Jack Cartwright at 48.81 as the only other sub-49 clocking)

- women's 100m Back: Kaylee McKeown, 58.60 (followed by Emily Seebohm with 59.22)

 

n.b. the highly expected Elijah Winnington didn't swim the men's 800m Free (won by Thomas Neill in a modest 7.51.X)...

These are on Amazon Prime, if you have that.

[phelps 8,285]

7 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

These are on Amazon Prime, if you have that.

yes...

 

I thought they were not available in Italy...and instead I can watch that without any restriction...

 

p.s. I expected a slightly better picture quality (in Italy we can only see the NFL Thursday Night Football among the top sport events for now -next year we're going to have also the Soccer European Champions League...it will be a good test for our broadband connection system)...

I mean, it's quite good, but not so spectacular as it might (should) be...

 

p.s. I read that Swimming Australia have signed a 2-year contract with Amazon...so, also next year we're going to watch this event on APV...

[phelps 8,285]

British Trials, Day #4 Highlights

 

- women's 100m Free: 1st, Freya Anderson, 53.40; 2nd, Anna Hopkin, 53.49 (both OQS, 3rd and 4th ranked in the 54s)
- men's 50m Free: Benjamin Proud, 21.42 (OQS)
- women's 200m Back: Kathleen Dawson, 2.08.14 (OQS)
- men's 100m Fly: James Guy, 51.44 (OQS, swum also by the 2nd ranked, Jacob Peters, with 51.65)
- women's 200m IM: Abbie Wood, 2.09.23 edging out Alicia Wilson, 2.09.61 (both OQS)

[phelps 8,285]

British Trials, Day #5 Highlights

 

- men's 1500m Free: Daniel Jervis, 14.51.49 (OQS)
- women's 100m Breast: Sarah Vasey, 1.06.37 edging out Molly Renshaw, 1.06.72 (both OQS)
- men's 200m Back: Luke Greenbank, 1.56.70 (OQS)
- men's 200m Free: Duncan Scott, 1.44.47, followed by Thomas Dean, 1.44.58; Matthew Richards, 1.45.77; James Guy, 1.46.04   

[rafalgorka 1,808]

https://swimswam.com/chinas-sun-yang-reportedly-competing-at-next-weeks-nationals/

[Werloc 3,191]

Lithuania just held a championship for swimmers born in 2007-2009

 

Žygimantas Tautvydas broke the U13 national records in 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle, 

 

Augustė Jakštaitė in 100m and 200m backstroke as well. 

 

So many age group records have fallen over the past couple of years and it's mostly credited to Meilutytė's Olympic run.

 

The facilities improved a lot, the state started running a programme teaching children to swim and a fair few of them continue to do it professionally, so nearly every U13, U15 and U17 record has been bettered in the past decade. Really interesting how all of these swimmers will translate the results into senior competition.

[Vic Liu 1,691]

Chinese Trials begins today from 4.30-5.8. The format will be the same as Olympics including relays. There are some expecting swimmer in coming days. Let's see if they will surprise us.

 

1. Zhang Yufei in 100/200 butterfly (just finished 100 butterfly preliminary in 55.96s)

2. Yang Junxuan in 100/200 freestyle

3. Yu Yiting in 200/400 medley

4. Xu Jiayu/Yan Zibei/Zhang Yufei/Yang Junxuan in 4*100 mixed medley

[heywoodu 16,004]

What the hell