Florent Manaudou Fires Off World Best in 50 Free in Amiens

Florent Manaudou Doha 2014
Photo Courtesy: FINA Doha 2014

AMIENS – France’s Florent Manaudou definitely stole the show on night one of the Amiens stop of the Golden Tour.

Manaudou blasted the meet record in the men’s 50-meter free with a time of 21.81.  That performance not only cleared the meet mark, it also beat Manaudou’s previous world-best time of 21.89 from the Golden Tour stop in Nice.

Fred Bousquet touched second overall tonight in 22.68,w hile Mehdy Metella wound up third in 22.89.

Metella followed with a 52.41 to win the men’s 100-meter fly and move up to fourth in the world rankings.  Jordan Coelho (53.96) and Valerio Coggi (54.41) took second and third.

The Netherlands’ Inge Dekker smashed the women’s 100-meter fly finale with a 58.25.  That moved her to second in the world to Emma McKeon’s 58.24 from the BHP Super Series.

France’s Marie Wattel finished second in 58.68 to move into the top 10, while Katinka Hosszu collected bronze with a 59.06.

The Netherlands’ Ranomi Kromowidjojo turned in a meet-record time in the women’s 50-meter free with a 24.80.

That performance shot her into a third-ranked tie with Brittany Elmslie in the world rankings.  Only Cate (24.03) and Bronte (24.24) Campbell have been faster this year.

The Netherlands’ Femke Heemskerk touched second in 25.10 to move to ninth in the world, while France’s Anna Santamans took third tonight in 25.27 for 11th.

France’s Damien Joly jumped to the top of the world in the men’s 800-meter free with a time of 7:56.90.

That swim cleared Mykhailo Romanchuk’s previous world best of 7:57.63 set during the Nice stop of the Golden Tour with the pair being the only two to break 8:00 this year.

Hungary’s David Verraszto finished second in 8:02.87 with Germany’s Jacob Heidtmann earning third in 8:03.69.

Hosszu, who also took fourth in the 50 free with a 25.44, won the women’s 200-meter back in 2:10.03 for the meet record.

That swim clipped her previous season best of 2:10.09 from Nice that ranks her fourth in the world, but wasn’t enough to leapfrog Dominique Bouchard’s third-ranked 2:10.02 from the Austin stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series.

Evelyn Verraszto of Hungary clocked a second-place time of 2:14.13, while Germany’s Lisa Graf earned third-place honors in 2:17.90.

France’s Giacomo Perez Dortona answered a volley of fast 1:01 100 breast times from the U.S., with one of his own as he clocked a 1:01.20 to win the men’s 100-meter breast title.  That moved him into the top five in the world.

Germany’s Marco Koch improved his top-10 season best of 1:01.73 from the Luxembourg Euro Meet with a second-place 1:01.26, while Germany’s Hendrik Feldwehr rounded out a close finish with a third-place 1:01.27.

France’s Jeremy Stravius topped the men’s 200-meter back finale with a 1:59.37, while Germany’s Christian Diener touched just behind with a second-place 1:59.96. David Verraszto of Hungary rounded out the podium with a third-place 2:03.87.

Moniek Nijhuis took home the women’s 100-meter breast title in 1:08.94 with Charlotte Bonnet picking up second in 1:09.62.  Hosszu earned yet another medal with a third-place 1:10.23.

2015 Golden Lanes, Amiens, Day One – Results

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David Villegas
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We should aspire….

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