Corbeau Takes 200 Breast As De Schryver Notches Report At 2026 Belgian Championships

2026 OPEN BELGIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The third and last day of racing on the 2026 Open Belgian Swimming Championships wrapped up final evening from Antwerp, however not earlier than a nationwide report bit the mud by the hands of Noah de Schryver.

Competing within the last of the boys’s 200m breaststroke, 24-year-old de Schryver stopped the clock at a speedy results of 2:10.15, the very best time of his profession.

Entering this competitors, de Schryver’s private greatest and Belgian commonplace stood on the 2:10.83 he placed on the books at this similar competitors three years in the past.

Last evening, he break up 29.40/32.79/33.37/34.59 to get to the wall a few second behind Olympic medalist Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands.

Corbeau turned in a time of two:09.17 for gold, a mark inside placing distance of the season-best 2:08.76 established eventually month’s Malmsten Swim Open Stockholm. That checked him in because the Seventh-swiftest man on the planet this season.

Bartel Vranken wrangled up bronze in final evening’s race, hitting 2:16.89 to additionally land on the rostrum.

The ladies’s 200m breaststroke last additionally had an Olympic medalist among the many subject, with Tes Schouten of the Netherlands getting it accomplished for gold.

25-year-old Schouten, who missed final 12 months’s championship season on account of well being points, put up a stable effort of two:24.60 to beat the pack by over three seconds.

Host nation swimmers Grace Palmer and Zinke Delcommune picked up the minor medals, with the previous logging 2:27.77 and the latter producing 2:29.82.

As for Schouten, her 2:24.60 right here was simply over a second behind the two:23.35 she delivered in Stockholm to take over slot #7 within the season’s world rankings.

National report holder Florine Gaspard dove in for the ladies’s 50m freestyle, the place she discovered success in a speedy time of 24.94.

That represented the only real time of the pack to clear the 25-second barrier, with Fleur Bussels reaping silver in 25.79 and Nore Michiels touching in 25.98 to spherical out the rostrum.

Gaspard’s nationwide report stays on the 24.42 she established on the 2024 version of the Swim Open Stockholm, so she was simply over half a second off that mark yesterday night. She’s been as swift as 24.61 this season, a time she put up on the Lausanne Swim Cup to rank fifteenth on the planet in the meanwhile.

Additional Notes

• The ladies’s 400m free noticed Sarah Dumont seize the gold in a results of 4:08.42, the only real time of the sphere beneath the 4:15 threshold. That’s a big-time private greatest for the Belgian, destroying her earlier PB of 4:10.47 from a 12 months in the past. She continues to inch up on the reigning nationwide report of 4:06.27 Valentine Dumont registered on the 2023 Sette Colli Trophy.
• Lucas Henveaux took on the boys’s 1500m freestyle and dominated the occasion, hitting a monster private better of 15:16.95. The next-closest competitor was represented by Florentin Lovens, who put up 15:54.06, adopted by Gautier Sobrie, who notched 15:56.81. The Belgian report, a time of 15:11.04 from Tom Vangeneugden on the 2008 Olympic Games, is among the oldest standing nationwide benchmarks but to be damaged.