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Salut, mes amies (et mes amis). Je suis triste d’annoncer qu’aujourd’hui est le dernier jour de compétition au Mare Nostrum – Canet. Mais il y aura beaucoup de programs rapides, alors en garde!
Sadly (or fortuitously) my Spanish is far worse than my French, so there received’t be any preambles in Spanish from me for the Barcelona Stop, however that’s not as a result of I wouldn’t attempt, it’s simply that my colleague Madeline, might be guiding you thru the dwell recap.
But let’s not soar too far forward as we’ve loads of quick racing on the schedule right this moment. Things kick off with the 50s of breaststroke and freestyle, occasions that are chock stuffed with stars. The USA’s McKenzie Siroky is the highest seed within the first occasion, and contemporary off a brand new PB within the 100 yesterday, might be trying to break her days outdated Mare Nostrum report from Monaco. The males’s Canet report holder Ilya Shymanovich, too, might be trying to break his report from final 12 months, however has to first go by Michael Houlie, who set the highest time this morning in prelims.
The ladies’s 50 free sees the 2nd quickest 100 freestyler ever return to the pool. After ripping a 51.86 yesterday to shut out the session, Dutch sprinter Marrit Steenbergen returns to the scene of the crime and can tackle the even splashier and dashier 50 free. The Dutchwomen isn’t the highest seed and should go by compatriot Milou Van Wijk if she needs to climb to the highest of the rostrum.
The meet definitely ought to begin with fireworks, however doubtless will finish with them in addition to Siobhan Haughey will look to shut out the Canet cease with one more Mare Nostrum report. After breaking the late and nice Camille Muffat‘s record in the 200 free in Monaco the Hong Kong Olympian returns to the pool to attempt to do so again. She had a great swim in the 100 freestyle yesterday, that maybe was overlooked by Steenbergen’s efficiency, however Haughey may definitely be in vary of taking excessive time on the planet this 12 months.
Between the 50 free and 200 free, there are many occasions, that too are anticipated to be thrilling. New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather, like Haughey is trying to rebreak her personal Mare Nostrum Record from final weekend within the 400 free. So too is Hungary’s Kristof Milak within the 100 fly. The Hungarian can have his arms full as Ilya Kharun, posted the quickest and lone sub-52 time of the morning and is the highest seed.
Home nation followers can have their eyes glued to the boys’s 1500 as France’s David Aubry and Damien Joly are the highest seeds by a large margin, however Sweeden’s Victor Johansson appeared very robust within the 400 free yesterday so may throw a wrench of their plans. Even extra native is Canet 66’s personal Pauline Mahieu, who’s the 2nd seed within the 100 backstroke. The Frenchwomen should get round Canada’s Taylor Ruck. Ruck has one of many busiest schedules as not solely is she the highest seed within the 100 again, however she is the one to beat within the 100 fly, which is slated to go off simply two occasions prior. The Canadian can also be the fifth seed within the 50 free at the beginning of the session.
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The USA’s McKenzie Siroky received off to a fantastic begin and carried that velocity all the best way to wall, with the University of Tennessee swimmer taking the win in 30.33. While slower than her profitable time and Mare Nostrum report from final weekend, the swim is her second time climbing atop the rostrum this weekend, after having received the 100 breaststroke yesterday in a brand new private greatest.
Charging exhausting to take 2nd out of lane 7 was Siroky’s compatriot Skyler Smith, who touched the wall in 30.69. Smith positioned 2nd to Siroky final weekend within the knockout, going 30.61 within the closing.
Poland’s Barbara Mazurkiewicz and Argentina’s Macarena Ceballos tied for third at 30.82, simply .01 forward of Germany’s Anna Elendt.
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Michael Houlie, like Siroky within the closing earlier than had the perfect begin to his race and he rode that momentum to the win. The South African’s time of 26.63 is a robust enchancment upon his outcomes from final weekend in Monaco, as Houlie didn’t advance out of the quarterfinal, swimming 27.27 within the first spherical earlier than inserting sixth out of 8 within the subsequent spherical the place he went 27.23.
It was additionally a stronger swim from Canet report holder Ilya Shymanovich, who like Houlie was eradicated earlier than the semifinal within the 50 knockouts. Today the Belorussian was 26.86 profitable the bronze, as he fell simply of catching Russia’s Ivan Kozhakin. Kozhakin took the silver tonight, touching in 26.82, a bit slower than his profitable time from Monaco of 26.69.
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There was a little bit of an upset within the ladies’s 50 free as Siobhan Haughey took the win out of lane 7, beating out the robust Dutch pair of Milou van Wijk and Marrit Steenbergen. A four-time Olympic medalist for Hong Kong, Haughey wasn’t within the lead on the 25 meter mark, however saved up her tempo and surged previous Steenbergen who appeared to be transferring just a bit slower on the finish to take the win 24.41 to 24.46. Both their occasions this night are a bit slower than the season greatest as Haughey was 24.34 on the Malmsten Swim Open and Steenbergen received the knock-outs final weekend in 24.48.
The win is a reversal of yesterday’s end result within the 100 free, the place Steenbergen blew Haughey (and the remainder of the sector) out of the water as she recorded the 2nd quickest time ever within the race, whereas Haughey, 52.36 ranked her third on the planet this season.
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Serbia’s Andrej Barna received some revenge on Quintin McCarty because the 2nd seed took the win this night the 50 free going 21.57. Barna had the perfect begin of the ultimate and carried that velocity into the wall as he erased the seven-year-old Canet report of Bruno Fratus.
Last weekend in Monaco, Barna posted a 21.48 within the quarterfinal (4th on the planet) and was the highest seed into the semifinals, however was unable to copy the time and fell to McCarty within the closing 21.79 to 21.43. This night it was McCarty, who needed to accept 2nd after getting into as the highest seed with the NC State product incomes the silver in 21.73, simply forward of Kristof Milak and his 21.88.
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Victor Johansson of Sweden picked issues up the place he left them in yesterday’s 400 freestyle win as he was first to the wall on the 200, opening in 1:58.44. However, it wasn’t as unassailable of a lead as he established within the 400 as Romania’s Andrei-theodor Proca and Emile Vincent had been simply .16 and .60 again. By the 400 flip, Johansson and Proca had been nonetheless neck and neck, with the Swede flipping in 3:59.16, with the Romanian becoming a member of him beneath 4:00 at 3:59.37.
His win within the 400 yesterday might have taken one thing out of the Swede as Proca broke Johansson over the following 200 and by the 600, was main by over a second and by the 800, the Romanian had firmly established himself because the chief, flipping in 7:59.12, with Johansson again by almost 4 seconds at 8:02.98. Proca continued his tempo and appeared to be a person on a mission. He fell simply shy of breaking the 15:00 minute mark, however the NC State recruit time of 15:00.36 is a brand new private greatest and seems to be a brand new nationwide report.
Johansson appeared to be struggling across the 1000m mark as France’s Damien Joly briefly handed him, however the Swede recovered and pulled away from Joly to take 2nd 15:06.48 to fifteen:11.46.
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Erika Fairweather jumped out to an early lead in her bread and butter occasion, the 400m free, as she flipped first on the 100 wall in 57.75. Leading Agostina Hein of Argentina by .72, the Kiwi continued her relentless tempo and by the 200 she had ballooned the lead out to 1.68, hitting the midway level within the lone sub-2:00 time within the subject of 1:59.15.
While she was proper on her Mare Nostrum tempo on the 100 (57.76), she fell off a bit on the 200 (1:58.98) and continued to slide again ever so barely and ended up touching the wall in 4:02.28, and whereas slower than final weekend by round half a second, her time tonight does break the 14-year-old Canet meet report of Camille Muffat.
Hein took 2nd, like she did in Monaco, and like Fairweather, was just a bit slower going 4:05.34 as in comparison with 4:05.31, however Simona Quadarella, yesterday’s 800 winner, did enhance her time going from 4:07.09 to 4:06.64 this night.
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This race was all Kirill Prigoda in the beginning. The reigning Worlds silver medalist within the 50 breaststroke, used his early velocity to construct a lead as he was simply certainly one of three swimmers out in beneath :30 and the lone competitor beneath 1:03.00, because the Russian hit the midway level in 1:02.75.
Prigoda appeared to slowly edge forward of his compatriot Aleksandr Zhigalov, who was 1:03.14 on the 100. Zhigalov gave a bit extra floor on the third 50, and regardless of an impressed final 50, he fell in need of catching Prigoda and needed to accept the silver, 2:10.37 to 2:10.16.
Prigoda took silver final weekend, so right this moment’s result’s an enchancment on the rostrum, albeit in a slower time as he was 2:09.51 in Monaco. For Zhigalov, his time right this moment is sort of a full second sooner than his 2:11.01 bronze medal efficiency.
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World report holder Evgeniia Chikunova didn’t have a big lead on the midway level, opening in 1:09.54 with each Marcella Ceballos and Anna Elendt scorching on heels, becoming a member of her beneath 1:10 at 1:09.55 and 1:09.56, nevertheless it was sufficient for the Russian to make use of her again half velocity to blow aside the sector and cruise to the win. Chikunova closed in 36.19 and 36.36 during the last 100, hit the wall at 2:22.09, almost a full second sooner than her 2:22.92 from Monaco final weekend.
Ceballos struggled to keep up her early velocity and got here house in 38.43 and 39.25 to complete fifth total at 2:27.63. Elendt, too fell off Chikunova’s blistering again half, and needed to accept the bronze after being handed within the final 50 by Canada’s Alexanne Lepage. Lepage completed 2nd within the 100 breaststrokes yesterday and was runner-up within the 200 in Monaco, albeit in a sooner time (2:24.50).
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It was a little bit of a sleepy 200 IM closing as no swimmer’s time broke into the world’s prime 25 this season, nevertheless it was robust again half efficiency from Italy’s Alberto Razzetti that noticed Doha Worlds bronze medalist take the win in 1:59.04, the lone sub-2:00 time within the subject.
Sixth on the midway level (57.60), Razzetti trailed early chief Jan Cejka by by almost two full seconds (55.93), however used an distinctive breaststroke (33.30) to tug himself from sixth to 1st after which used the quickest freestyle break up of 28.14 to safe the win. While a sluggish closing, Razzetti’s time is a robust enchancment upon his end result from final weekend when he received in 1:59.76.
Cejka, regardless of one of many slowest breaststroke splits (35.69), held off Algeria’s Jaouad Syoud to win the silver in 2:00.41, with Syoud settling for the bronze in 2:00.64. Syoud was almost pipped on the line by Hungary’s Gabor Zombori, as he completed 4th in 2:00.65, one spot down from his bronze from Monaco, however almost half a second sooner.
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Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey continued to point out why she is likely one of the greatest 400 IMers on the planet proper now as she cruised her method to a powerful 4:34.29 win. The French-Canadian swimmer, who received bronze within the 200 IM in Singapore, was out in 1:02.60 (the quickest within the subject) and adopted it with the quickest 100 again break up (1:10.01) to ascertain an almost 4 second lead over Spain’s Emma Carrasco.
While Carrasco was sooner over the breaststroke, (1:17.78 to 1:18.01) it clearly wasn’t sufficient to shut the hole, and Harvey surged house in 1:03.67 to take the win. Her time this night is far sooner than Agostine Hein’s profitable time from Monaco, 4:36.21, and stands as a brand new season greatest and private greatest, bettering her 4:34.37 from the 2026 Giant Open again in March.
| 2 | Yu Zidi | CHN | 4:33.33 | 03/21 |
| 3 | Mary-Sophie Harvey | CAN | 4:34.29 | 05/28 |
| 4 | Chang Mohan | CHN | 4:34.59 | 11/17 |
| 5 | Ke Wenxi | CHN | 4:34.91 | 03/21 |
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For Carrasco, her 4:39.77 is a brand new season greatest, and jumps her into the Top 25, rating her twenty third and sits simply two seconds off her PB of 4:37.75 from the 2024 Spanish Winter Championships.
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Hungary’s Kristof Milak blasted himself off the blocks and appeared to have almost a half a physique’s size lead on the 15 meter mark, however Ilya Kharun and Sweden’s Melker Rosengren reeled him in rapidly as they trailed Milak’s 24.10 opening 50 by simply .01 and .02 respectively.
Rosengren seemed to be making the race greater than the anticipated showdown between Milak and Kharun, however the Swede couldn’t sustain with their relentless tempo and shortly fell again into the sector. With 25 meters left, Kharun appeared to be only a half stroke again of Milak, and coming into the wall it appeared like it could be Milak simply however Kharun timed his end to make it a a lot nearer race, ending simply hundredths of a second again 50.79 to 50.73.
Milak’s time was a bit off his 50.66 Mare Nostrum report setting time from Monaco, nevertheless it does come on the finish of the session, versus in the beginning in Monaco and it does take over half a second out of Maxime Grousset‘s Canet report from final 12 months.
Both Milak and Kharun have been sooner this season, with Milak’s 50.22 from final month’s Hungarian National Champs main the world, and Kharun’s 50.40 from final December’s US Open, sitting third.
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Taylor Ruck efficiently navigated the primary of her again to again occasions, defending her prime seed, nevertheless it was a really shut race and she or he took the win by simply .01. Out in 26.56, Ruck appeared to be in agency management of the race, main France’s Lilou Ressencourt by over half a second, however the problem on the again half got here from Belarus’s Anastasiya Kuliashova.
Kuliashova was third on the 100, opening in 27.22, however surged off the flip and powered her method to the end wall in 30.72 to the touch in 57.94, simply .01 again of Ruck, who faltered within the closing meters, however had sufficient to get her arms on the wall first at 57.93.
Both occasions are season bests for the pair as Ruck now ranks twentieth on the planet and Kuliashova, is only one spot again at twenty first.
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Monaco champion Pavel Samusenko didn’t fairly have sufficient to repeat as champion as his compatriot Miron Lifintsev, was simply too quick on the again finish to run down.
Lifintsev, the youthful of the 2 Russians, was out quickest, opening in 25.86, however Samusenko was proper on his heels hitting the midway mark in 25.91. The pair had been stroke for stroke over the primary 50, however Lifintsev jumped out of the break-out and slowly pulled himself away from his compatriot, splitting 27.47 to hit the wall in 53.33, .41 forward of Samusenko and his 53.74.
For Lifintsev, the time stands as a brand new season greatest and jumps him to tenth on the planet, one spot behind Samusenko who was 53.30 on the Russian Swimming Cup.
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Perhaps it was too fast of a turn-around for birthday woman Taylor Ruck, however the Canadian didn’t have fairly sufficient left within the tank to defend her 2nd of two prime seeds, as she completed 4th within the 100 again in a time of 1:00.56.
Ruck was out quickest, opening in 28.99, and appeared to be in good kind main her compatriot Ingrid Wilm by .22, however the power expended to win the 100 fly quickly caught as much as her, as did Wilm, Pauline Mahieu and Leah Shackley, as all three handed her within the final lap.
Wilm ultimately took the win in 59.72, however was almost handed by Mahieu, who trains at this very pool, because the Frenchwomen’s final 50 of 30.38 was the quickest within the subject, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to make up for her sluggish begin, as she took the silver in 59.98.
Wilm’s profitable time was a bit off her silver medal efficiency from Monaco, as she touched 2nd to the USA’s Leah Shackley final weekend 59.51 to 59.40. Shackley, for her half completed third this night, simply over the one-minute mark at 1:00.15.
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At the 100 flip, the boys’s 200 free appeared to be a four-horse race as Spain’s Miguel Perez-Godoy led the sector at midway level, flipping at 52.20, simply forward of the USA’s Patrick Sammon (52.31) and Gabriel Jett (52.33) with Ireland’s Evan Bailey not far again at 52.55.
But the American duo and former PAC-12 rivals quickly broke other than the sector and by the 150 flip had been locked right into a duel because the pair had been the lone swimmers to flip beneath 1:20 and had a lead of a second on the sector. Jett, who swam collegiately at California, was main on the 150 by .07 (1:19.75 to 1:19.82), however Sammon, who received the 100 free yesterday held his composure and out break up Jett by .21 to take the win 1:46.48 to 1:46.62.
The outcomes are a reversal from Monaco, the place Jett received in 1:46.81m to Sammon’s 1:47.16. For Sammon, an ASU product, the time, whereas not breaking into the World’s prime 25 this season is a brand new private greatest, bettering his 1:46.54 from final summer time’s nationwide championships.
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Good issues come to those that wait, and Haughey rewarded these nonetheless within the crowd with a brand new Mare Nostrum Record, breaking her days outdated 1:54.27 as she went 1:54.13 this afternoon. Expectations had been excessive for Haughey after a robust season-best swim within the 100 free yesterday and shocking efficiency within the 50 free on the prime the session, beating out Dutch star Marrit Steenbergen.
Haughey took the race out quick, opening in a sub-27 first 50 of 26.98 and was 28.82 on the 2nd 50 to hit the midway level at 55.80. Leading the Czech Republic’s Barbora Seemanova by almost half a second at this level, Haughey continued to pound her kick and by the 150 the lead had jumped to over a second.
Coming house in robust splits of 29.12 and 29.21, Haughey sliced .14 off her outdated season greatest and lowered the report to 1:54.13. At the 150 she was inside a second of Titmus’s World Record of 1:52.23, however the Australian’s unworldly final 50 of 28.28, was an excessive amount of for Haughey to stick with and saved her outdoors of the 1:53 vary. However, her time is simply .21 shy of her private better of 1:53.92 from the Tokyo Olympics.
While it was a one swimmer race on the finish, Seemanova had a robust exhibiting for 2nd, hitting the wall in 1:55.99. Her time, like Haughey’s is a bit off her greatest and nationwide report of 1:55.12, however jumps the 2 time European champion within the occasion as much as twelfth on the planet, and she or he at the moment ranks 2nd amongst European’s trailing solely #4 on the planet Freya Colbert and her 1:54.34 from the Aquatics GB Championships again in mid-April.
| 2 | Summer MCINTOSH | CAN | 1:53.80 | 03/06 |
| 3 | Siobhan Haughey | HKG | 1:54.13 | 05/28 |
| 4 | Freya COLBERT | GBR | 1:54.34 | 04/16 |
| 5 | Erika Fairweather | NZL | 1:55.06 | 05/14 |
| 6 | Lani PALLISTER | AUS | 1:55.66 | 04/08 |
| 7 | Li Bingjie | CHN | 1:55.67 | 11/13 |
| 8 | Anna MOESCH | USA | 1:55.81 | 05/24 |
| 8 | Li Jiaping | CHN | 1:55.81 | 11/12 |
| 10 | Anna Peplowski | USA | 1:55.82 | 04/17 |
| 11 | Meg HARRIS | AUS | 1:55.97 | 12/14 |
| 12 | Barbora SEEMANOVA | CZE | 1:55.99 | 05/28 |
| 13 | Liu Yaxin | CHN | 1:56.01 | 11/13 |
| 14 | Maria Fernanda COSTA | BRA | 1:56.42 | 05/19 |
| 15 | Claire WEINSTEIN | USA | 1:56.62 | 01/16 |
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