Day 2 Finals Dwell Recap

2024 MARE NOSTRUM – BARCELONA

Whats up people and welcome again for the second (and ultimate) day on the Barcelona cease of the 2024 Mare Nostrum tour. It was a busy prelims session, and you’ll take a look at the full recap right here.

The primary spotlight of the morning was Benedetta Pilato taking down Ruta Meilutyte‘s Barcelona meet report of 29.96, which Meilutyte posted method again in 2013. In prelims, Pilato rewrote the usual with a 29.89 efficiency. The general Mare Nostrum tour report is a 29.75–set final 12 months by Lara van Niekerk–and Pilato will get one other shot at that report throughout the ultimate. Van Niekerk is within the ultimate as properly, sitting additional again with a 31.96 out of prelims.

Kristof Milak had a busy morning, taking up the 100 freestyle and 200 butterfly. He missed out on the 100 free ultimate with a ninth place end, however that race remains to be stacked. Florent Manaudou holds down the highest seed (48.78). Within the ultimate, he’ll attempt to fend off the likes of Hwang Sunwoo, Thomas Ceccon, David Popovici, Alessandro Miressi, and Katsuhiro Matsumoto. 

Milak will characteristic within the 200 fly ultimate. The world report holder comes into the ultimate because the second seed (1:57.11) behind high qualifier Kim Minseop. 

WOMEN’S 800 FREESTYLE – TIMED FINAL (Quickest Warmth)

• Mare Nostrum Document: 8:19.86 – Rebecca Adlington, Nice Britain (2012)
• OQT:  8:26.71

1. Francisca Soares Martins (POR) — 8:40.71
2. Emma Gianelli (RNF) — 8:41.80
3. Dune Coetzee (TSC) — 8:43.38
4. Jimena Perez Blanco (CNB) — 8:49.12
5. Paula Otero Fernandez (ESP) — 8:51.39
6. Johanna Enkner (AUT) — 8:55.28
7. Ludovica Terlizza (GNMS) — 8:55.32
8. Hanne Naess (BSV) — 8:56.74

Francisca Soares Martins took the win within the ladies’s 800 freestyle to open the session. The Portugese swimmer clocked 8:40.71 to win the race by simply over a second forward of Emma Gianelli. Again in January, Martins set her private finest on this occasion at 8:36.95. This efficiency at this time is the third-fastest in her profession.

Swimming for her South African membership group, Dune Coetzee earned bronze in 8:43.38. Whereas not a season finest, it does enhance on the 8:48.40 she posted lower than two weeks in the past on the Atlanta Traditional whereas nonetheless racing in the USA.

MEN’S 50 BACKSTOKE – FINAL

1. Ulises Juan Saravia Pelaez (CDNC) — 25.09
2. Michele Lamberti (ITA) — 25.25
3. Kai Van Westering (NED) — 25.50
4. Adam Jaszo (HUN) — 25.70
5. Adrian Santos Martin (CNSA) / Markus Lie (NOR) — 25.81
6. (tie)
7. Robert Pedersen (DEN) — 25.86
8. Joao Costa (POR) — 25.95

The lads’s 50 backstroke ultimate kicks off a flurry of 50s of stroke on Day 2 in Barcelona. Ulises Juan Saravia Pelaez earned the win, touching .16 seconds forward of Italy’s Michele Lamberti.

Kai Van Westering completed .25 seconds again from Lamberti for third place. It’s a brand new season finest for Van Westering, bettering on the25.69 that he posted on the 2024 World Championships. His private finest stands at 25.19 from final summer time.

WOMEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 29.75 – Lara Van Nierkerk, South Africa (2023)

1. Benedetta Pilato (ITA) — 30.06
2. Skyler Smith (NCAC) — 30.69
3. Reona Aoki (JPN) — 30.89
4. Kara Hanlon (SWP) — 31.20
5. Silje Slyngstadli (NOR) — 31.83
6. Lara Van Nieker (PAC) — 31.98
7. Mikaela Goelst (Seals) — 32.25
8. Celia Monforte Millan (CNLH) — 32.83

Benedetta Pilato collected the win within the ladies’s 50 breaststroke. She was off the Barcelona meet report that she posted in prelims and didn’t crack 30 seconds. Nonetheless, she gained the race handily, touching .63 seconds forward of Skyler Smith, the lone American on the Tour. Smith was sooner than the 30.80 she swam in Canet, inching nearer to her private finest (30.41) with a 30.69.

Reona Aoki was near her private finest as properly, punching a 30.89 for third place. She additionally improved on her efficiency from Canet, dropping down from 30.97 to 30.89 and bettering on her quickest mark in 2024. Aoki’s lifetime finest is 30.71 from 2022.

MEN’S 50 Butterfly – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 22.53 – Andrii Govorov, Ukraine (2018)

1. Nyls Korstanje (NED) — 23.29
2. Dylan Carter (TTO) — 23.36
3. Szebasztian Szabo (HUN) — 23.38
4. Quah Zheng Wen (SGP) — 23.56
5. Thomas Verhoeven (FAZ) — 23.58
6. Tibor Tistan (SVK) — 23.71
7. Alberto Lozano Mateos (CNT) — 23.93
8. Casper Puggaard (DEN) — 23.96

WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 4:30.75 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2012)
• OQT: 4:38.53

MEN’S 100 Freestyle – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 48.08 – Nathan Adrian, USA (2014)
• OQT: 48.34

Girls’s 100 Backstroke – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 58.57 – Kylie Masse, Canada (2022)
• OQT: 59.99

MEN’S 100 Breaststroke – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 58.15 – Adam Peaty, Nice Britain (2019)
• OQT: 59.49

Girls’s 50 Freestyle – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 23.82 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023)
• OQT: 24.70

MEN’S 200 Backstroke – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 1:54.34 – Ryosuke Irie, Japan (2007)
• OQT: 1:57.50

Girls’s 200 Breaststroke – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 2:19.67 – Rikke Moeller Pedersen, Denmark (2010)
• OQT: 2:23.91

MEN’S 200 Butterfly – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 1:53.89 – Kristof Milak, Hungary (2022)
• OQT: 1:55.78

Girls’s 100 Butterfly – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 55.76 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2013)
• OQT: 57.92

MEN’S 200 IM – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 1:56.31 – Hugo Gonzalez, Spain (2021)
• OQT: 1:57.94

Girls’s 200 Freestyle – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 1:54.66- Camille Muffat, France (2008)
• OQT: 1:57.26

MEN’S 400 Freestyle – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Document: 3:41.71 – Ian Thorpe, Australia (2001)
• OQT: 3:46.78