2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
A pair of data from excessive profile swimming nations fell within the 200 backstroke preliminary rounds on Sunday: the final morning session of the 2024 Brief Course World Championships.
Carmen Weiler Sastre certified to finals because the third seed within the ladies’s 200 backstroke in 2:02.16, breaking the Spanish Document, and Hubert Kos certified 1st into the lads’s ultimate in 1:48.02, breaking the Hungarian Document.
Spanish Splash
Weiler is an element of a big Spanish contingent that trains in the US at Virginia Tech below Spanish Olympic medal winner Sergio Lopez-Miro. Raised in Singapore, Weiler Sastre is already the Spanish Document holder within the 100 and 200 meter backstrokes in lengthy course and the 100 backstroke in brief course (set within the semifinals this week in 56.09).
She now provides the 200 again in brief course with a 2:02.16.
That breaks a report set 13 years in the past by Duane da Rocha on the European Brief Course Championships in 2:03.32.
2024 has been an excellent 12 months for Weiler, dropping huge instances throughout occasions and programs (together with within the dash freestyles). This 200 backstroke, although, was an especially-good swim, taking nearly three seconds off her earlier finest that was completed a 12 months in the past on the Spanish Membership Championships in Castellon. There, she swam 2:04.94, which in flip was greater than a two second drop.
The enhancements usually are not essentially simply because of a scarcity of quick course meters racing both – she dropped, for instance, 2.3 seconds within the 200 backstroke within the 2024 calendar 12 months to go 2:08.89 in June.
Splits Comparability
| Carmen Weiler | Carmen Weiler | ||
| Earlier PB | New Spanish Document | ||
| 50m | 29.87 | 28.95 | 29.28 |
| 100m | 31.61 | 30.63 | 31.42 |
| 150m | 31.51 | 31.23 | 31.2 |
| 200m | 31.95 | 31.35 | 31.42 |
| Complete Time | 2:04.94 | 2:02.16 | 2:03.32 |
Reflecting her enhancements within the 50 and 100 free and 100 again, Weiler was out like a flash on Saturday morning, beginning the race two seconds sooner than her earlier private finest swim. She closed effectively too, grabbing nearly one other second forward of her private finest (however fairly effectively in-line with the prior record-setting splits).
Weiler will now be in a battle for the medals with not solely the 2 who completed forward of her Summer season McIntosh (2:01.52) and Anastasiya Shkurdai (2:01.78), however the two People who completed behind her. That features Phoebe Bacon (2:03.36) and the World Document holder Regan Smith (2:02.42).
Spain has one medal within the meet to date: gold from Weiler’s Virginia Tech teammate Carles Coll Marti within the 200 breaststroke.
Kos Does It For the Dwelling Crowd
A day after Hungary received their first gold medal of the championships, Hubert Kos lined himself up for an additional within the 200 again.
He swam 1:48.02 to qualify first into the ultimate by greater than two seconds. He received’t be completely clear in finals – whereas the meet lacks lots of the largest names in 200 backstroking globally, the second-seeded Mewen Tomac of France has been 1:48.55.
Kos, in the meantime, smashed the outdated Hungarian Document of Peter Bernek, set in 2012 on the European Brief Course Championships. There he swam 1:49.41.
Splits Comparability
| Hubert Kos | Hubert Kos | Peter Bernek | |
| Earlier PB | New Hungarian Document |
Earlier Hungarian Document |
|
| 50m | 26.22 | 25.09 | 25.89 |
| 100m | 28.63 | 27.54 | 27.22 |
| 150m | 28.73 | 27.56 | 28.17 |
| 200m | 28.87 | 27.83 | 28.13 |
| Complete Time | 1:52.45 | 1:48.02 | 1:49.41 |
Kos, like Weiler, did lots of his work on the entrance half of the race. The defending Olympic Champion in lengthy course hasn’t swum this occasion in brief course meters since November 2022, however in that point he has made huge progressions in brief course yards.
Kos’ former Arizona State teammate Zalan Sarkany received the 800 free on Saturday to interrupt the seal on gold medals for Hungary.