2024 EINDHOVEN QUALIFICATION MEET
Day 2 of the 2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet introduced extra spectacular performances from Dutch swimmers and past.
Nationwide document holder Tes Schouten of the host nation made her presence identified, hitting a time of two:21.43 to take the ladies’s 200m breast.
Schouten cut up 1:07.74/1:13.69 to get the job carried out, beating the sphere by practically 3 seconds within the course of
Czech swimmer Kristyna Horska nailed a time of two:24.28 because the runner-up whereas Croatia’s Ana Blazevic notched 2:28.95 because the bronze medalist. Horska’s effort represents a brand new nationwide document, overtaking her personal earlier Czech normal of two:24.62 notched on the Budapest cease of the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup sequence.
23-year-old Schouten owns the Dutch normal on the 2:19.81 put up for gold at this 12 months’s World Championships. She presently ranks Third on this planet, courtesy of that outcome.
The boys’s 200m breast noticed two-time Olympic silver medalist Arno Kamminga surge to the wall forward of the competitors, stopping the clock in 2:09.02.
That gave Kamminga a slim edge over teammate Caspar Corbeau who settled for silver a hair behind in 2:09.11. The pair marked the only real swimmers to delve underneath 2:10 territory, as bronze was earned by Ukraine’s Maksym Ovchinnikov in 2:11.32.
Corbeau is coming off a profitable 2024 World Championships which noticed the previous Texas Longhorn earn 200m breast silver in 2:08.24, the 2nd-best efficiency of his profession. Kamminga was additionally in that Doha closing however was relegated to seventh in 2:10.06.
Each have already cleared the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of two:09.68 throughout the choice window.
Of notice, additional down the road, Wytse Broekstra produced a brand new Dutch Junior File of two:16.00 (1:06.42/1:09.58).
21-year-old Tessa Giele ripped a big-time private better of 57.38 to high the ladies’s 100m butterfly podium.
Giele opened in 26.09 and introduced it house in 31.29 to hack over half a second off her earlier career-quickest results of 57.96 established simply final month on the Helsinki Swim Meet.
Her time tonight ranks her simply contained in the listing of high 15 performers on the season, tying Magdelena Veldhuis because the Netherlands’ Third-best ladies’s 100m fly performer in historical past.
Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanova was subsequent to the wall in 58.16 and French ace Marie Wattel rounded out the rostrum in 58.74.
The boys’s 400m IM noticed Cedric Buessing of Germany bust out a lifetime better of 4:12.33 to beat the quickest Dutchman within the race, Thomas Jensen who touched in 4:15.33. Ukraine’s Oleksii Hrabarov hit 4:21.12 whereas his compatriot Mykhailo Romanchuk produced 4:23.19 because the Fifth-place finisher.
Search for a follow-up put up on 20-year-old Buessing’s achievement within the context of his quickly enhancing younger profession.
One other German turned some heads as 22-year-old Sven Schwarz received the boys’s 1500m in 14:49.91, a time underneath the Olympic qualification normal of 15:00.99.
He’s the 2nd German swimmer to dip beneath that mark throughout the qualification window, as Olympic champion Florian Wellbrock owns the most effective time within the nation of 14:47.89 from this 12 months’s World Championships.
Schwarz’s lifetime finest stays on the 14:43.53 logged for silver eventually 12 months’s inaugural U23 Championships.
Lastly, Nyls Korstanje of the host nation posted a time of 51.23 to take the boys’s 100m fly over Frenchman Clement Secchi.
Secchi notched a time simply .15 behind the previous NC State Wolfpack swimmer, hitting 51.38 whereas Czech athlete Daniel Gracik additionally landed on the rostrum in 52.17.
Secchi’s outing represents his first-ever foray underneath the 52-second barrier, crushing his earlier PB of 52.10 from the 2022 European Championships. He now ranks because the #3 French 100m fly performer in historical past.
Korstanje has already more than likely certified for Paris 2024 because of the 50.78 nationwide document he placed on the books on the 2023 World Championships.
Extra Notes
- Germany’s Carlotta Ingenerf posted a time of 4:53.20 to win the ladies’s 400m IM by 4 seconds.
- Czech swimmer Barbora Janickova clocked the speediest time of the ladies’s 50m again subject, She touched in 28.62 to carry a .10 edge over Ukraine’s Nika Sharafutdinova who hit 28.72. Brazilian Julia Goes bagged bronze in 28.85. Of notice, Dutch swimmer Maaike de Waard notched 28.44 within the heats as the highest prelims performer however she dropped the ultimate in favor of the 100m fly during which she completed 4th (59.71).
- The boys’s 50m again noticed Czech ace Miroslav Knedla rating 24.77, a outcome simply outdoors his nationwide document of 24.64. Behind him was Stan Franckx who established a brand new Belgian document of 25.23 en path to silver. Adam Maraana of Israel captured bronze in 25.34.
Dutch Qualifiers as of Right now:
Girls
– 50 free (restrict 24.70): Marrit Steenbergen (24.42) and Kim Busch (24.68)
– 100 free (53.61): Marrit Steenbergen (52.26)
– 200 free (1.57.26): Marrit Steenbergen (1.55.51)
– 100 again (59.99): Maaike de Waard (59.65) and Kira Toussaint (59.88)
– 100 breast (1.06.79): Tes Schouten (1.05.71)
– 200 breast (2.23.91): Tes Schouten (2.19.81)
– 100 fly (57.92): Tessa Giele (57.38)
– 200 medley (2.11.47): Marrit Steenbergen (2.09.16)
Males:
– 50 free (restrict 21.96): Kenzo Simons (21.73) and Renzo Tjon A Joe (21.88)
– 200 again (1.57.50): Kai van Westering (1.56.91)
– 100 breast (59.49): Arno Kamminga (58.71) and Caspar Corbeau (59.33)
– 200 breast (2.09.68): Caspar Corbeau (2.07.99) and Arno Kamminga (2.08.30)
– 100 butterfly (51.67): Nyls Korstanje (50.78)
