2024 FRENCH ELITE SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2024 French Elite Quick Course Championships kicked off immediately from Montpellier with the competitors representing a qualification alternative for December’s Quick Course World Championships.
Though massive gun Leon Marchand is at present racing on the World Cup circuit, there are nonetheless some key athletes slated to dive in right here, together with Melanie Henique, Beryl Gastaldello and Florent Manaudou.
The ladies’s 50m again was the primary occasion on the night finals agenda, with Analia Pigree producing a successful effort of 26.21 to take the gold.
It was Pauline Mahieu who notched the quickest trip of the heats, 26.69, nevertheless, she added .10 in the primary occasion to accept silver in 26.79. Melanie Henique rounded out the rostrum in 26.87.
Pigree is the present French nationwide file holder on this occasion, proudly owning a lifetime better of 25.96 from the 2021 Quick Course World Championships. That efficiency rendered the 23-year-old the 4th place finisher there in Abu Dhabi.
The boys took on the 200m again this night with Mewen Tomac placing up a time of 1:51.15 for the victory.
Antoine Herlem joined Tomac in sub-1:52 territory, clocking 1:51.94 because the runner-up. Alexander Desangles earned bronze in 1:52.33.
Tomac has been as swift as 1:48.55, the present French file he placed on the books eventually yr’s European Quick Course Championships.
Maxime Grousset was additionally within the water, making an attempt the boys’s 100m IM on for dimension. 25-year-old Grousset stopped the clock at 51.93, lower than half a second from his lifetime better of 51.49 from 2022.
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard was subsequent to the wall in 52.73 whereas Stanislas Huille collected bronze in 53.37.
Extra Winners
- Cyrielle Duhamel registered a time of two:11.57 to prime the rostrum within the ladies’s 200m IM.
- Gastaldello turned in a time of 51.66 to handily win the ladies’s 100m free. Her outcome beat Pigree who notched 53.14 for silver and Albane Cachot scored 53.39 because the bronze medalist. Gastaldello’s PB stays on the French file of 51.16 she hit in the course of the 2020 Worldwide Swimming League (ISL) season. Gastaldello’s 51.66 effort now renders the French ace #1 on the earth this season.
| 2 | Junxuan Yang |
CHN | 52.11 | 10/20 |
| 3 | Kasia Wasick |
POL | 52.19 | 10/26 |
| 4 | Milla JANSEN |
AUS | 52.26 | 10/26 |
| 5 | Liu Zixuan |
CHN | 52.47 | 09/26 |
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