Sarah Sjostrom Set for Five-Event Program at Short-Course European Championships (Psych Sheets)

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Sarah Sjostrom Set for Five-Event Program at Short-Course European Championships (Psych Sheets)

Swedish star Sarah Sjostrom is set for five individual events at the Short-Course European Championships, which run from Nov. 2-7 in Kazan, Russia.

Sjostrom is the top seed in the women’s 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly and 100 fly. She’s seeded third in the women’s 100 individual medley, behind Belarus’s Anastasiya Shkurdai and Russia’s Maria Kameneva.

Sweden is also entered in the women’s 200 free and 200 medley relays and the mixed 200 free and 200 medley relays.

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The 50 free promises to be a particularly intriguing race, with Kasia Wasick second and Kameneva third.

On the men’s side, Hungary’s Kristof Milak is entered in five individual events. He’s the top seed in the men’s 100 fly and second to Tomoe Hvas in the 200 fly. He’s also swimming the 50 back, where he’s seeded fourth behind the Russian top pairing of Kliment Kolesnikov and Mark Nikolaev. He’s also entered in the 100 free and 200 free.

It’s Milak’s first short-course championships and the Olympic 200 fly champion rarely races in the 25m pool so his entry times are from long-course events.

Also busy is Italy’s Thomas Ceccon, who is entered in the 100 IM, 200 IM, 100 back, 50 fly and 100 free. The 100 free is a deep event, attracting the likes of Ceccon, Milak, Kolesnikov, Emre Sakci and Szebasztian Szabo, in addition to the usual sprinters.

Among said sprinters is David Popovici. The Romanian wunderkind will swim the 200 free (seeded 16th), 100 free (seeded 21st) and 400 free (seeded 35th).

Absent among the Short-Course European Championships entries are a number of mainstays of the field, including Florent Manaudou and Katinka Hosszu. Great Britain also isn’t sending a delegation to the meet, off their stellar performance at the Tokyo Olympics. Sjostrom and Simona Quadarella of Italy are the only women’s Olympic medalists from Tokyo in the field, with Sarah Kohler and Pernille Blume not entered.

On the men’s side, Gregorio Paltrinieri and Florian Wellbrock are entered in the distance events, but fellow Olympic medalist Mykhalio Romanchuk is not. The Tokyo breaststroke depth, via Arno Kamminga and Nicolo Martinenghi, is represented, though Matti Mattson of Finland is absent. Evgeny Rylov, in the two backstroke events and 50 free, joins his compatriot Kolesnikov. Neither of Switzerland’s summer medalists, Noe Ponti and Jeremy Desplanches, are entered.

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