phelps 6,795 Posted April 12, 2022 #61 Share Posted April 12, 2022 2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #4 basically, an off day...no truly remarkable clockings nor individual qualfying times for the upcoming World Champs were registered today in Riccione... the most exciting thing was an electric blackout that caused a 30-min break in the middle of the final session... however, here are today's champions: men's 100 Fly: 1.Piero Codia, 51.65 women's 100m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 1.00.25 men's 200m Backstroke: 1.Matteo Restivo, 1.57.56 women's 200m Fly: 1.Ilaria Cusinato, 2.10.36 men's 200m Breastroke: 1.Luca Pizzini, 2.10.98 women's 50m Freestyle: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 25.10 (24.97 in prelims) men's 200m Freestyle: 1.Marco De Tullio, 1.46.26; 2.Gabriele Detti, 1.47.50; 3.Stefano Di Cola, 1.47.55; 4.Stefano Ballo, 1.47.75 (all together, it's a qualfying standard for the World Champs for the men's 4*200m Free Relay) B-Final: 1.Lorenzo Galossi, 1.48.26 (new Junior NR) p.s. based on the results of all the 100m races of the single disciplines, also both the women and the men's 4*100m Mixed Relays and the 4*100m Mixed Medley Relay are officially qualified to the World Champs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 418 Posted April 12, 2022 #62 Share Posted April 12, 2022 11 hours ago, phelps said: unfortunately, it's not only 50/100m, it's the whole freestyle sector that's miles behind the world's excellence (Quadarella is just an exception to this "rule")... for what concerns the sprinters, however, there are a few historical, technical and cultural issues to prevent Italy being a good Nation in those disciplines... I don't know why? but we've always refused the idea of building up poweful swimmers, we normally care a lot about the technical skills and about the amount of kilometers swimmed by our athletes, but somehow we're always behind the rest of the world when it comes to develop strencht and power... especially among the girls and especially the very young girls, there's always the scare to ask them to put on muscles, we normally refuse to send them in the gym lifting weights until they're at least 16/17 years old, as if it was a risk for their health* (many doctors refuse to give permission to the youngsters to lift the necessary amount of weights...and if you don't build muscles, there's no chance to be competitive in the sprint events -if you notice, Italian swimmers are usually also always poor at the start and in the turns, 2 more aspects of the game where power is really important)... therefore, we have quite a good tradition over the middle and long distances, rather than the shorter ones...and if that's true among the men, imagine how bigger an issue it is among the women... *actually, many gorls refuse also by themselves to push beyond certain limits because they don't want to sacrify their femininity (here in Italy, women with strong muscles = no beautiful females for most people and for the average media...we still live in the myth of the most famous models rather than the TV starlettes, the athletes are rarely seen as role models)... That's a shame because it kills many of your relay chances and now Pellegrini has retired it's even worse. Hopefully sometime in the future Italy can move past those body image issues. Dunadan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 418 Posted April 13, 2022 #63 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Sixteen year old Aussie Flynn Southam went 1:46.77 in the 200 free at age champs tonight. Can't wait to see what he can do in the 100 now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted April 13, 2022 #64 Share Posted April 13, 2022 2022 Italian Spring Nationals best of Day #5 last day of the Championships with 4 more World Champs passes earned by the Italian swimmers... today's champions: women's 50m Breastroke: 1.Benedetta Pilato, 29.85 (World Champs qualifying time; 29.58 in prelims) men's 50m Breastroke: 1.Niccolò Martinenghi, 26.49 (World Champs qualifying time; Peaty went 26.91 at the British Nationals); 2.Simone Cerasuolo, 26.85 (= Cadet* NR and World Champs qualifying time) women's 400m Freestyle: 1.Simona Quadarella, 4.08.95 men's 400m IM: 1.Alberto Razzetti, 4.13.83 women's 200m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 2.08.63 men's 1500m Freestyle: 1.Gregorio Paltrinieri, 14.44.39 (World Champs qualifying time) women's 50m Fly: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 26.08 *in the Italian Swimming classes, Cadets are just older than Juniors (so, 19 & 20 years old athletes among the males and 17 & 18 years old athletes among the females)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 418 Posted April 14, 2022 #65 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Flynn Southam breaks Chalmers' 16 year old 100 free age record with 48.60 at Aussie Age Champs. Boys are getting so fast so young these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_D 873 Posted April 17, 2022 #66 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 418 Posted April 18, 2022 #67 Share Posted April 18, 2022 USA, Canada and Australia are going to Junior Pan Pacs instead of Junior Worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted April 20, 2022 #68 Share Posted April 20, 2022 dullard 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werloc 3,127 Posted April 23, 2022 #69 Share Posted April 23, 2022 The Lithuanian national championships were held between April 19th-22nd A nice amount of EJCH and EYOF qualifying times were reached and quite a few Lithuanian NR's and age group NR's were broken. The most important race although was the 100m women's breaststroke, where Rūta Meilutytė finished 2nd with a 1.07.07, behind Teterevkova's 1:07.01 This time was enough, and it's likely that Rūta's comeback is in full force, since she has a 50,100m Breaststroke qualifying mark for both the World and European Championships. World Championships A marks: Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle Rūta Meilutytė - 50m, 100m Breaststroke Kotryna Teterevkova - 50m, 100m, 200m, Breaststroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m, Breaststroke World Championships B marks: Rūta Meilutytė - 50m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle Edvinas Česnakas - 50m, 100m Backstroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 50m Breaststroke, 200m Medley Tomas Navikonis - 100m, 200m, 400m Freestyle Aleksas Savickas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke Erikas Grigaitis - 200m Backstroke Deividas Margevičius - 100m Butterfly Agnė Šeleikaitė - 50m Breaststroke Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle Kotryna Teterevkova - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Rūta Meilutytė - 100m Breaststroke Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley, 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle Patricija Geriksonaitė - 200m Backstroke Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke Rokas Jazdauskas - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Danielis Kvederis - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Kirilas Stepanovas - 4x100m Freestyle Tomas Lukminas - 4x200m Freestyle EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 200m Medley Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle Karilė Ališauskaitė - 100m, 200m Breaststroke Guoda Stančikaitė - 100m Breaststroke Patricija Geriksonaitė - 100m, 200m Backstroke Rusnė Vasiliauskaitė - 200m Backstroke Augustė Jakštaitė - 200m Backstroke Mantas Kaušpėdas - 100m Backstroke Kristupas Trepočka - 100m Butterfly Erika Pašakinskaitė - 100m, 200m Butterfly??? Vytė Gelažytė - 400m Medley Guoda Tručinskaitė - 400m Medley Of course, I think we'll look for more ways to nominate as many athletes as we can, so this list is very subject to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullard 418 Posted April 24, 2022 #70 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Australia Poised To Replace Kazan As Hosts Of the 2022 FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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