Ben Proud Unleashes World’s Fastest 50 Free at British Championships

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Ben Proud swam the fastest 50 free so far in 2017 with a 21.32 to break the British Record by over two tenths of a second. Proud won the British Championships and swum inside the automatic qualification time for Budapest. Proud’s time also would have won gold at the Olympics last summer. Anthony Ervin won in Rio with a 21.40. Proud was fourth in that race behind Ervin, Florent Manaudou and Nathan Adrian. Proud has officially put the sprinting world on notice as he is ahead of Russia’s Vlad Morozov (21.44) and Australia’s Cameron McEvoy (21.55).

Proud broke his own British Record that he set at the Olympics last summer at 21.54. Proud was also one of the seven British swimmers that finished in fourth last summer and he will definitely put himself amongst the talks for a medal at the World Championships this summer.

Proud has officially qualified for his third World Championships with that swim in Sheffield on Saturday night. Proud ran away from the rest of the field as he won by almost a full second over second place Thomas Fannon (22.21) and Jack Thorpe (22.53). Lewis Burras (22.70), Miles Munro (22.75), Alexander Bowen (22.76), James Oxborrow (22.97) and Daniel Speers (22.98) also swam in the A-final.

Below is the race video uploaded by the user Jamoo000.

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Badreddine Loulidi
6 years ago

Wawa Elbos Amar Zaidi wow

Amar Zaidi
6 years ago

I predict these things

Wawa Elbos
6 years ago

RIP m’y boy morozov

Badreddine Loulidi
6 years ago

ahaha ben proud est trop chaud wtf

Ed Eckels
6 years ago

I bet he’s Proud!

Thadeu Cesar
6 years ago

Murilo Gustineli se viu isso mano??? Pqp

Murilo Gustineli
6 years ago
Reply to  Thadeu Cesar

Eita porra!!

João Santos
6 years ago

Bruno Machado Gonçalo Paquete

Gonçalo Paquete
6 years ago
Reply to  João Santos

Todo bombado

João Santos
6 years ago
Reply to  João Santos

Mesmo xD

Gian Alessandro
6 years ago

Where did this guy come from?

blaise.vera0
blaise.vera0
6 years ago

has always been here

Thomas A. Small
6 years ago

Congratulations

Sean Goh
6 years ago

Wong Yu Hao

Wong Yu Hao
6 years ago
Reply to  Sean Goh

Saw it live yesterday freaking OP

Breaker12
Breaker12
6 years ago

Look out Aussies, England fastest in the 100 and 50 men’s freestyle looking forward to world champs and comm games.

Irene Hisham
6 years ago

Edwina Ed….Ben Proud has started his Olympic career….yayyy….Francis Qiu…must be so happy…..

Sabina Medarevic
6 years ago

Ben Rynjah

Tracy Jones
6 years ago

He is Olympic champ

Lee Huddart
6 years ago

Jack now that’s fast ?

Anna Gutierrez
6 years ago

Go Ben! Do us Proud!

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