2024 SETTE COLLI TROPHY
We’ve entered the ultimate day of motion on the 2024 Sette Colli Trophy with right this moment, June twenty third, representing the World Aquatics qualification deadline for subsequent month’s Olympic Video games.
Some racers have already certified, due to this fact, this meet marks a tune-up alternative, whereas others will doubtlessly swim lights out in a closing try to ebook their ticket to Paris.
Proper off the bat, Sweden’s dynamo Sarah Sjostrom made her presence identified as soon as once more, dominating the ladies’s 50m free.
The 30-year-old famous person fired off a prelim time of 24.06 to guide the sector by over half a second en path to presumably doubling up on her 100m free victory from final night time.
Countrywoman Michelle Coleman was subsequent in line, producing 24.59 because the 2nd seed whereas Italy’s personal nationwide report holder Sara Curtis, 17 years of age, registered the one different sub-25 outing of the sector in 24.66.
Curtis’ effort is already simply .10 off the Italian customary of 24.56 she logged within the heats of this occasion at March’s Italian Championships.
The lads’s 50m fly additionally introduced the warmth, with Dutchman Nyls Korstanje staking his declare with a swift morning results of 23.07.
He’ll be flanked by host nation swimmer and 100m again world report holder Thomas Ceccon who notched 23.32. Teammate Lorenzo Gargani shall be on the opposite facet of Korstanje, courtesy of his Third-seeded 23.58.
Reigning world report holder Andrii Govorov of Ukraine snagged the 4th seed in 23.69, tied with British Olympian Jacob Peters.
Laura Stephens of Nice Britain was the quickest girls’s 200m flyer of the morning. The world champion notched an effort of two:10.45 to guide a British 1-2 punch as Keanna MacInnes put up 2:11.11 because the 2nd seed.
Stephens took gold in Doha in a time of two:07.35 for her first-ever world title. Her lifetime finest rests on the 2:06.62 she turned in on the 2023 British Championships to rank because the nation’s 4th-best performer in historical past.
Teammate Angharad Evans earned a prime seed of her personal, hitting a mark of two:25.60 to guide the ladies’s 200m breaststroke pack.
Evans’ time this morning was only a hair off her lifetime finest of two:25.41 established eventually month’s AP Race Worldwide. It was at that very same competitors the place the rising Stirling star clocked a brand new GBR report of 1:05.54 within the 100m breast occasion.
Dutch nationwide report holder Tes Schouten lurks because the Third seed in 2:26.51 whereas Italy’s Francesca Fangio cut up the pair in 2:26.08.
A stacked males’s 200m free discipline noticed Germany’s Lukas Maertens nab the highest spot in 1:47.10. That was considered one of seven sub-1:48 outings this morning, with British Olympic medalist Duncan Scott (1:47.30), Italy’s Matteo Ciampi (1:47.71) and Italy’s Carlos D’Amrosio (1:47.76) among the many prime 8.
World champion Matt Richards and reigning Olympic champion Tom Dean settled for the respective eleventh and 14th seeds so that they’ll be relegated to the B-Last.
Japan’s Daiya Seto already turned in a powerful time of 4:09.68 to take the lads’s 400m IM and the Olympic medalist is taking up the 200m IM right this moment.
Seto settled for the Third seed, due to an AM outing of two:00.62. That ranked him behind chief Massimiliano Matteazi of Italy (1:59.62) and 2nd seed Patrick Groters of Aruba (2:00.55).
British duo Max Litchfield and Dean lurk because the Fifth- and Seventh-seeded swimmers whereas Italy’s nationwide report holder additionally made the ultimate because the Fifth-best tied with Litchfield.
Lastly, 35-year-old Hungarian Katinka Hosszu made the ultimate in her final try to qualify for a record-breaking sixth Olympic Video games.
The brand new mother punched a time of two:14.13 to earn the Fifth seed within the girls’s 200m IM in her quest to attain the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of two:11.47.
Olympic finalist Abbie Wooden of Nice Britain set the tempo this morning in 2:11.87, proudly owning an over-second benefit on reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi of Japan to scored the 2nd seed in 2:13.22.
Further Notes
- Olympic medalist Luke Greenbank of Grear Britain was considered one of simply two swimmers beneath the two:00 barrier within the males’s 200m backstroke occasion. Greenbank landed lane 4 in 1:59.54 to Italian Dylan Buonaguro‘s 1:59.90.
- The ladies’s 200m again was on the subdued facet however host nation report holder Margherita Panziera wound up on prime in 2:11.23. GBR’s Honey Osrin shall be within the hunt because the 2nd seed in 2:11.41 whereas Hungary’s Katalin Burian claimed the Third seed in 2:12.29.
- Arno Kamminga and Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands will duel in tonight’s closing of the lads’s 200m breast. The previous notched the highest spot in 2:11.45 and Corbeau was lower than half a second behind in 2:11.76.
- Brazil’s Gabrielle Roncatto received a minor edge over Canadian Mary-Sophie Harvey on this morning’s 400m free heats. Roncatto clocked 4:10.60 to Harvey’s 4:10.92.
