This week’s LumaLanes Performance of the Week goes to Dutch swimmer and recent Short Course World Champion Jesse Puts, who took down a long-standing record held by none other than the great Pieter van den Hoogenband. Swimming at the 2016 Amsterdam Cup, Puts touched the wall in 21.82 to just sneak by Hoogenband’s sixteen year old record of 22.03.
Puts is himself just coming off a successful week of racing in Windsor, Canada at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships. At that meet, Puts took down race favorite Vladimir Morovoz in the 50 freestyle, touching the wall in 21.10 to take gold over the Russian. Swimming out of lane 7, Puts was just .05 off of his own Dutch national record, which he had set earlier this year.
Swimming this weekend at the Amsterdam Cup, Puts first added his name to the record books in the long course version of the event when he touched in 22.00 in the prelims session before smashing that at night with a 21.82. That makes Puts the first Dutch swimmer to swim a sub-22 second 50 freestyle and takes away a record from gold medalist and Olympic legend Pieter van den Hoogenband.
For reference, Hoogenband’s old record won him the bronze medal in the 50 free back at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games behind Americans Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin (who also happened to be the Olympic gold medalist in 2016). With a world title and newly minted record in the 50 freestyle, the 22 year-old Puts is setting himself up as someone to watch in 2017.
Congratulations Jesse Puts on earning Swimming World’s Performance of the Week!
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