Carli Cronk, Viola Scotto Di Carlo Lead Deaflympics Record Blitz

Carli Cronk, Viola Scotto Di Carlo Lead Deaflympics Record Blitz

American Carli Cronk and Viola Scotto Di Carlo of Italy lead a wholesale rewriting of the deaf world file on the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo.

Cronk and Di Carlo set 4 world information every, Cronk including two on American blended medley relays. Three males’s world information went down, through Ukraine’s Illia Sultanov within the 50 freestyle and 50 butterfly and American veteran Matt Klotz within the 50 backstroke.

Cronk completed with seven gold medals (5 particular person), plus a silver and a bronze. Scotto di Carlo, a Paris Olympian for Italy, picked up 5 gold (4 particular person), 4 silver and two relay bronze.

The pinnacle of the 2 standout girls’s racers could have been on the meet’s first day. The 100 fly entered the meet with a acknowledged world file of 1:03.69, owned by South Africa’s Peggy de Villiers since 2015 (although Cronk had an unratified efficiency of 1:01.31). Cronk set the world file in prelims at 1:01.35. A warmth later, Scotto Di Carlo went 59.90 to destroy that.

In finals that evening, Cronk received the race in 59.13 to take residence the world mark. Scotto Di Carlo was second in 59.58.

Cronk set the world file within the 400 free at 4:18.39, with Scotto Di Carlo additionally below the previous mark at 4:20.64. In the identical session, Cronk beat Scotto Di Carlo with a world file within the 200 fly in 2:10.84, then received the 400 IM in a Deaflympics file 4:55.47. Cronk was almost three seconds faster than the world file within the 200 free by going 2:01.77, a mark that had stood since 2017 (by fourth-place finisher Viktoriia Terenteva). Scotto Di Carlo was second in that occasion.

The American blended medley relay of Klotz, Marcus Titus, Cronk and Brooke Thompson dashed 3.4 seconds off the blended medley relay world file in 3:58.57. The identical quartet within the blended 400 free relay went 3:39.66, almost seven seconds forward of the sphere and 1.5 ticks below the world file.

Thanks to Cronk, the U.S. received the gold medal tally with 12 of 42. It tied Ukraine for 23 complete medals, Ukraine having eight golds. Italy was third in gold medals (seven) and complete items of {hardware} (16).

Scotto Di Carlo outdueled Cronk within the 50 fly, taking the world file of 26.49 to undercut the meet file Cronk had set in prelims. Cronk was below the WR in 27.10 for silver. Scotto di Carlo additionally set the world file within the 50 free at 25.28 in the identical session. She topped Charlotte Gower of Great Britain with a world file of 29.28 within the 50 again and a world file of 56.29 within the 100 free in the identical session.

Gower received the 200 particular person medley in 2:21.95, 0.6 seconds off the world file. She went 2:17.72 to win the 200 again and 1:04.19 to win the 100 again. She was second to Scotto Di Carlo in 50 again and 100 free, third within the 200 free and girls’s medley relay silver for her seventh medal.

Britain’s Kathy Wun received the 800 free and 1,500 free and was third within the 400 free. Aksana Petrushenka, swimming as a impartial athlete, received the 100 and 200 breast over Imogen Nolan of Australia, who had claimed the 50 breast.

Hungary’s Tamara Boros received 4 silver medals and a bronze. Thompson, a Rutgers swimmer, nabbed two relay golds and 4 bronze medals.

Ukraine’s contingent shined on the boys’s facet, led by Sultanov and Denys Nakonechnyi. They traded the world file within the 50 fly on the primary day of the meet, Sultanov going 24.64, Nakonechnyi 24.48, then in finals Sultanov successful in 24.13 to Nakonechnyi’s 24.32.

Nakonechnyi obtained revenge with a win within the 100 free with a time of fifty.93 that was .05 wanting Sultanov’s world file, Sultanov taking silver. Sultanov received the 50 free in 23.00. Both had been a part of successful Ukrainian 800 free and 400 free relays.

Sultanov tallied 4 gold and 4 silver medals. Nakonechnyi tallied three gold medals and 7 silvers (together with all three breaststroke occasions). Ukraine obtained all eight of its golds on the boys’s facet, with Vladyslav Kremliakov (200 again) and Oleksii Kolomiiets (200 breast) chipping in.

Klotz set a world file within the males’s 50 backstroke at 25.94. He additionally received the 100 again in 57.54 and was third within the 200 again and 50 fly in addition to .05 seconds off Sultanov within the 50 free in 23.05. He tallied 5 gold medals, together with the boys’s medley relay, two silvers and three bronze.

Also on the medley relay was Titus, who tallied two particular person gold amongst his seven complete medals. He set meet information in each the 50 breast (28.24) and 100 breast (1:02.51).

Italy’s Federico Tamborrino received the 800 free and 1,500 free. Ryutaro Ibara of Japan received the 200 free, was second within the 400 free and did the IM double to go along with silvers within the 100 fly and 200 fly. He collected three gold, three silver and a bronze medal complete. Neutral athlete Stepan Skosyrskii received the 100 fly and 200 fly to go along with 200 IM silver and 400 IM bronze.