Through the Quick Course World Championships in Budapest, the Polish Swimming Federation held a press convention at hand out the upcoming 2025 Quick Course European Championships in Poland. Among the many attendees there have been Olympic and World multi-medalists Otylia Jedrzejczak (Poland) and Laszlo Cseh (Hungary).
The Evolution of the Particular person Medley
Given the numerous highlights on the primary day of competitors in Budapest, together with an thrilling 200m particular person medley last, which noticed Shaine Casas going underneath Ryan Lochte’s American document, we requested Laszlo what he thought concerning the performances and the evolution of the IM occasions. His response might be summed up with the sentence, “As soon as upon a time, there have been there have been back-fly-free specialists after which breastroker.”
Particularly these days, with the rise of Leon Marchand, who’s as a lot a flyer as a breaststroker, and likewise contemplating yesterday’s podium, which featured three swimmers—Shaine Casas, Alberto Razzetti, and Finlay Knox—who all swim a wonderful third 50m, the Hungarian champion puzzled what has modified now in comparison with 5 or 10 years in the past. The reply he gave himself (and us) lies in the truth that, in again at his day, the 2 class of swimmers— fly-back-freestylers and breaststrokers—didn’t overlap. Those that swam the 200m/400m IM have been usually the identical swimmers who belonged to 1 class or the opposite . There have been nearly no medley specialists who have been additionally sturdy breaststroke swimmers, and if there have been, it wasn’t the normality on the time. Now, nonetheless, one needs to be a wonderful swimmer in all 4 strokes, with no exceptions.
” You haven’t any probability with a nasty breastroke.”
World Data on the First Day of Racing
“If somebody units a document at present, it doesn’t imply that another person gained’t break it tomorrow,” that is how the Hungarian legend introduces the discuss world data set on the primary day on the Duna Enviornment. Laszlo Cseh, who emphasizes that he doesn’t have favourite swimmers however merely enjoys race, said that the performances he favored most on the record-breaking Tuesday (when 7 world data have been damaged) have been within the 50m butterfly. The previous Hungarian swimmer identified how amazed he was by the convenience with which Gretchen Walsh and Noe Ponti have been reducing the boundaries of the game. “Within the 50m, it’s very tough to set private data as a result of the distances are so brief, particularly in brief course, that the margin for enchancment turns into smaller and smaller.” It’s a bit just like the story of Achilles, who will all the time get nearer to the tortoise, however it occurs asymptotically: the shorter the space, the smaller the features with every try. Subsequently, Laszlo finds it unimaginable to see enhancements of almost 0.4 seconds within the 50m butterfly. “Ultimately, it’s only a dive and some strokes.”