SwimSwam Pulse: Curtis, Douglass & Liebmann World Data Largest Surprises of Euros & Pan Pacs

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We’re coming off an action-packed week of racing that noticed no scarcity of phenomenal swims, breakthrough performances and large upsets with the European Championships and Pan Pacific Championships working concurrently.

We ran two polls final week, asking readers what the largest shock was throughout the 2 meets via Wednesday, after which following up with one other asking what shocked them probably the most from the back-end of the 2 competitions on Monday.

POLL #1

Question: What was probably the most stunning end result from the primary three days of Euros + Day 1 of Pan Pacs?

RESULTS

• Sara Curtis shatters W 50 BK WR – 32.9%
• Euro M 100 free podium 46.87 or quicker – 31.0%
• Pallister tops McIntosh in W 200 free – 10.3%
• Berkoff upsets Smith in W 100 again – 7.4%
• Two US males sub-1:44 in 200 free – 6.9%
• Kos textile WR, #2 efficiency ever in 200 BK – 5.2%
• 22.75 required to make Euro M 50 fly closing – 3.4%
• Steenbergen – 50.87 for quickest girls’s break up ever – 2.0%
• USA shatters combined medley relay WR – 1.0%

In the primary ballot, Sara Curtis‘ stunning world record swim in the women’s 50 backstroke got here out on high with 32.9% of votes, edging out the blistering area within the males’s 100 freestlye on the European Championships.

In the semis of the ladies’s 50 again at Euros, Curtis unleashed a time of 26.63, shattering Kaylee McKeown‘s world record of 26.86 by nearly a quarter of a second. It also marked the first world record swim in long course women’s backstroke from a swimmer not named McKeown or Regan Smith since 2018, including to its shock worth.

The ballot was launched shortly earlier than Curtis re-broke the world file within the closing in a time of 26.56

An in depth runner-up to Curtis was the truth that a time of 46.87 was required to make the rostrum within the males’s 100 free at Euros, marking the primary time it took sub-47 to win a medal.

David Popovici received his extremely anticipated showdown with Egor Kornev in a time of 46.56, the third-fastest efficiency ever, whereas Kornev turned the third-fastest performer of all-time en path to claiming silver in 46.74.

The greatest shock was Kristof Milak in third, because the Hungarian butterfly star dropped a time of 46.87 to spherical out the rostrum and turn into the fifth-fastest swimmer ever, decreasing his earlier finest time (47.47) by six-tenths of a second.

The undeniable fact that the Eleventh-fastest efficiency ever was required to make the rostrum—previous to the warmth, 46.87 would’ve been ninth all-time—earned 31.0% of votes, trailing Curtis by lower than 2%.

Lani Pallister‘s upset victory over Summer McIntosh in the women’s 200 free on the Pan Pacific Championships was the opposite possibility within the ballot that eclipsed 10% of votes, incomes 10.3%. The two entered the meet with equivalent finest instances of 1:53.65, however on condition that McIntosh’s PB got here from 2023 and she or he hadn’t raced the 200 free at a serious worldwide meet since then, the bulk was backing her to win gold and problem the 1:53 barrier.

POLL #2

Question: What was probably the most stunning end result from the again half of Euros + Days 2-4 of Pan Pacs?

RESULTS

• Douglass large 50 free world file – 36.5%
• Liebmann large 1500 free world file – 33.2%
• McIntosh misses 400 free closing – 23.0%
• Pallister beats Ledecky in 800 free – 3.3%
• Douglass 51.69 100 free lead-off – 1.5%
• Sub-50 podium in 100 fly at Euros – 1.1%
• Marchand wins 400 free gold – 0.7%
• Short breaks Hackett’s 25-year-old AUS file in 1500 – 0.4%
• Knedla upsets Kolesnikov in 50 again – 0.4%

The craziness kicked into one other gear as we moved in direction of the weekend, as two mind-boggling world data fell by the wayside whereas McIntosh shockingly missed out on cracking an ‘A’ closing at Pan Pacs.

Leading the ballot with 36.5% of votes was what Kate Douglass did within the girls’s 50 free at Pan Pacs, as she broke Gretchen Walsh‘s world file of 23.55 within the prelims in a time of 23.49, after which obliterated the ultimate in a time of 23.19.

The swim made Douglass a whopping 36 one-hundredths of a second (1.53%) quicker than the #2 performer of all-time, Walsh, establishing it as one of the dominant world data in historical past.

Closely trailing Douglass’ world file within the ballot was the one dropped by Johannes Liebmann, because the German phenom put up a time of 14:26.79 within the males’s 1500 free at Euros to turn into the primary swimmer below the 14:30 barrier.

The 19-year-old lowered his earlier finest time by 13 seconds, crushing Bobby Finke‘s world file of 14:30.67 from 2024.

Liebmann sits 0.44% forward of the #2 performer ever within the occasion, making it much less dominant than Douglass’ (1.53%) regardless of him knocking practically 4 seconds off the file.

Curtis’ 50 again file, for reference, places her 1.12% quicker than #2 all-time McKeown.

Liebmann picked up 33.2% of votes, whereas McIntosh surprisingly lacking the ultimate of the ladies’s 400 free at Pan Pacs earned 23%. The world file holder, McIntosh’s miss appeared like extra of a miscalculation than it was her kind being manner off, however nonetheless, in a meet the place swimmers qualifying for the ‘A’ closing appeared comparatively straightforward for the non-Americans, it was a stunner.

Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which asks: What has been the highest swim of the yr up to now?

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