Femke Heemskerk Cracks 24 Seconds in 50 Free Win in Brazil

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GUARATINGUETA, Brazil, September 3. THE Netherlands’ Femke Heemskerk had herself a strong evening at the short course Jose Finkel Trophy meet in Brazil. As part of Minas, she smoked the women’s 50-meter freestyle for the win and also helped Minas to victory in the women’s 800-meter free relay.

Heemskerk blistered the women’s 50-meter freestyle finale in 23.99. That’s better than her best time of 24.26 from last year during the Eindhoven stop of the FINA World Cup and would have put her 10th in the world a year ago. Etiene Medeiros set the South American and Brazilian record with a 24.15 for second, while Larissa Oliveira (24.41) and Graciele Hermann (24.49) finished third and fourth.

Photo Courtesy: Kaitlin Kelly/Swimming World

Photo Courtesy: Kaitlin Kelly/Swimming World

After throwing down a sizzling time of 20.68 this morning during prelims to challenge his South American record of 20.51, Cesar Cielo cruised in with a 20.72 to win the men’s 50-meter freestyle tonight. Italo Duarte hit the wall second in 21.42 with Bruno Fratus (21.46) and Nicholas Dos Santos (21.49) placing third and fourth.

Thiago Simon popped a 4:06.38 to win the men’s 400-meter IM this evening, well ahead of Brandonn Pierry’s second-place 4:10.49. Evandro Silva wound up third in 4:11.04. Simon would have ranked 14th in the world last year with his swim tonight.

Samantha Arevalos hit the wall in 4:39.20 to win the women’s 400-meter IM, while Florencia Perotti took a close second in 4:39.82. Gabriele Goncalves raced to third in 4:42.18. Arevalos doubled up with an 8:290.84 to win the women’s 800-meter free. Carolina Bilich (8:30.12) and Bruna Primati (8:35.85) placed second and third.

In relay action, Pinheiros’ Gabriel Ogawa, Henrique Rodrigues, Leonardo Santos and Joao De Lucca topped the men’s 800 free relay in 7:01.93 with Minas’ Manuelle Lyrio, Andressa Lima, Femke Heemskerk and Carolina Bilich winning the women’s 800-meter free relay title in 7:52.49.

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