2024 ROTTERDAM QUALIFICATION MEET
The 2024 Rotterdam Qualification Meet continued from the Netherlands with British swimmers making their marks on the 4-day competitors.
The lads’s 100m fly noticed 21-year-old British champion Joshua Gammon take the highest spot, incomes gold in a time of 52.80.
Opening in 24.73 and shutting in 28.07, Gammon of Bathtub turned within the Tenth-best time of his younger profession, along with his lifetime finest remaining on the 51.65 he posted within the semi-finals of this yr’s European Championships. There in Belgrade, Gammon in the end positioned eighth total with a remaining swim of 52.32.
Behind Gammon this night was British teammate Jacob Peters who touched in 53.93 whereas Dean Fearn, additionally from GBR, clocked 54.05 for bronze.
15-year-old freestyle budding star Amelie Blocksidge grabbed the gold within the ladies’s 1500m free, registering 16:25.31 to get the job finished.
That gave her a really wholesome benefit over Leah Crisp who was subsequent to the wall in 16:46.51 whereas 17-year-old Clara Martinez De Salinas Pena of Spain rounded out the rostrum in 16:48.49.
As for Blocksidge, she’s been as fast as 16:10.04, the British Age File she produced in February of this yr to change into the Third-best British performer in historical past.
Extra Winners
- Germany’s Moritz Erkmann was the highest males’s 1500m freestyler, however by a slender margin. He touched in 15:24.36, with Spanish swimmer Cristobal Vargas Trujillo only a hair behind in 15:24.53, settling for silver. One other German swimmer, Johannes Liebmann, landed on the rostrum in 15:31.59 for bronze.
- Belgium’s Sarah Dumont was too fast to catch within the ladies’s 400m IM, logging 4:46.20 because the gold medalist. Proper behind her was Hungary’s Eszter Szabo Feltothy who turned in 4:46.89 and GBR’s Amalie Smith hit 4:48.09 for Third place.
- British swimmer Blythe Kinsman of Mount Kelley produced a time of 28.59 to high the ladies’s 50m again podium, inside putting distance of her lifetime better of 28.29 from this yr’s European Junior Championships the place she took house bronze.
- Scott Gibson touched in 25.52 to take the boys’s 50m again. He’s GBR’s Third-best performer ever, proudly owning a career-quickest mark of 24.83 from final yr.
- The lads’s 200m breast noticed Max Morgan get the gold in 2:12.69 forward of fellow British swimmer Filip Nowacki who settled for silver in 2:13.62. Christoffer Tofte Haarsaker of Norway produced 2:13.75 to additionally land on the rostrum.
- Cristobal Vargas Trujillo of Spain posted 4:22.58 as the highest males’s 400m IM swimmer.
- Scottish nationwide report holder Kara Hanlon hit 2:27.16 to win the ladies’s 200m breaststroke occasion.
- Sandra Maria Balto of Norway gained the ladies’s 100m fly in 1:00.25 forward of Britain’s Skye Carter who touched in 1:00.56. Theodora Taylor, a 2-time European Junior Championships medalist this yr, posted 1:00.94 for bronze.
