After two days of flirting with national records, the 2015 Portuguese Nationals finally saw one of the marks go down. Oddly enough, it came from a second-place finish on day three.
Julie Aglund Lauridsen won the women’s 400-meter free in 4:15.59. Second-place finisher Diana Margarida Duraes broke her own national record time of 4:19.40 with a 4:19.09 effort. Tamila Hryhorivna Holub clocked a 4:22.91 to place third.
Svenja Stoffel took the women’s 100-meter fly in 59.65, narrowly defeating Emilie Beckmann’s 59.83. Christina Munkholm couldn’t break the one-minute mark and finished third in 1:00.55.
Sam Horrocks won the men’s 100-meter fly in 53.89. Miguel Duarte Nascimento finished a nearby second in 54.24, while Nuno Goncalo Quintanilha made the podium with a 55.00.
Victoria Kaminskaya ended up victorious in the women’s 200-meter breast with a 2:30.43. She began to extend her lead over Ana Pinho Rodrigues after the 100-meter mark, and Rodrigues fell to a 2:32.45 finish. Barbara Sofia Barata was a distant third in 2:39.81.
Christopher Steeples added another win to his weekend with a 2:16.46 200-meter breast. Jolann Bovey was right behind Steeples with a 2:17.10. Diogo Filipe Carvalho wound up third with a 2:17.85.
Rebecca Guy zipped to a 25.86 first-place finish in the women’s 50-meter free. She won in convincing fashion over Svenja Stoffel, who clocked a 26.46. Ana Pinho Rodrigues notched a 26.47 for third.
Alexandre Scrudier Agostinho was nowhere near his national record time of 22.36, but he held on to win the men’s 50-meter free with a 23.10. Frederik Siem Pedersen touched second at 23.19, and Gustavo Almeida Madureira hit third with a 23.36.
British swimmer Jessica Fullalove has had a strong showing at the meet. She continued her hot streak with a 1:00.42 win in the women’s 100-meter back. Sarah Bro took second in 1:02.46, while Ana Sofia Leite rounded out the top three with a 1:03.60.
Denmark’s Magnus Jakupsson won the men’s 100-meter back in 55.80, ahead of Nathan Keith Theodoris who touched to a 56.30. Sam Horrocks clinched third in 56.97.
Danish swimmer Anton Oerskov Ipsen crushed the men’s 400-meter free in 3:50.23. His closest competition, Gonzalo Carazo Barbero, finished second in 4:00.54. Mario Alexandre Pereira posted a 4:00.64 to earn bronze.
On the fourth and final day of the meet, Florbela Cavaco Machado opened the session with a grueling 17:02.64 win in the women’s 1500-meter free. Vania Soares Neves took second in 17:10.45. Francisca Gomes Azevedo trailed to third in 17:51.62.
Oli Mortensen won an extremely tight 800-meter free ahead of Alexandre Valdagua Coutinho. Mortensen had trailed by mere milliseconds throughout the race, until he came back on the final 150 meters to win in 8:15.60. Coutinho’s 8:15.65, however, was a national record for the 18-year old boys age group. Mario Andre Bonanca came in third with an 8:21.24.
Ana Catarina Monteiro dominated the women’s 200-meter fly in 2:11.94. Emma Smithurst took second in 2:14.69, while Isabella Sorensen fell to third in 2:16.47.
Rebecca Guy won yet another freestyle race, this time posted a top time of 55.78 in the women’s 100-meter free. Sarah Bro silvered in 56.21, while national record-holder Ana Sofia Leite just missed her record time with a 56.59 third-place finish.
In the men’s 100-meter free, Frederik Siem Pedersen clocked a first-place time of 50.45, finishing ahead of Mario Alexandre Pereira’s 50.92. Luis Emanuel Vaz made the podium with a 51.18.
Victoria Kaminskaya won the women’s 200-meter free in wire-to-wire fashion in 2:16.61. Diana Margarida Duraes swam a 2:19.62 to finish second, while Madalena Gomes Azevedo took third in 2:22.05.
Aleixs Manacas Santos had a comfortable lead en route to his 2:02.82 victory in the men’s 200-meter free. Tomas Miguel Veloso finished second in 2:05.27, while Thomas Paine wound up third in 2:05.69.
2015 Portuguese National, Live Results – Results