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- Women’s 50 free<\/li>\n
- Men’s 50 free<\/li>\n
- Women’s 50 breast<\/li>\n
- Women’s 200 fly<\/li>\n
- Men’s 400 IM<\/li>\n
- Women’s 400 free<\/li>\n
- Women’s 400 medley relay<\/li>\n
- Men’s 400 medley relay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
LIVE STREAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
LIVE RESULTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Women’s 50 free<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Photo Courtesy: Joao Marc Bosch<\/p><\/div>\n
Great Britain’s Fran Halsall, who is now tied with Australia’s Cate Campbell for the fastest time in textile with a 23.96 from the Commonwealth Games, captured the European title with a 24.32 to 24.37 touchout triumph against Sweden’s sprint star Sarah Sjostrom. Sjostrom came into the day with a third-ranked season best of 23.98 from Swedish Nationals, and was unable to upend Halsall as the top European sprinter.<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen rounded out the podium with a bronze-winning time of 24.53 as there was clear separation between the podium-placers and the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n
France’s Anna Santamans (24.81), Italy’s Silvia di Pietro (24.84), Russia’s Elizaveta Bazarova (24.91), The Netherlands’ Inge Dekker (25.01) and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar (25.20) also competed this evening.<\/p>\n
Men’s 50 free<\/h1>\n
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France’s Florent Manaudou sprinted to the top of the world this year in the men’s splash-and-dash with a scorching time of 21.32. \u00a0That time clipped compatriot Fred Bousquet’s meet record of 21.36 from 2010 in Budapest, and also bested Cesar Cielo’s 21.39 from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet as the top swim in the world this year. \u00a0Manaudou dropped a huge amount of time tonight, having a seventh-ranked 21.70 from French Nationals as his best swim so far this year until this evening.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Manaudou’s time matches Cielo’s textile best 21.32 from last summer’s World Championships in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Poland’s Konrad Czerniak hit the wall second for silver in 21.88, while Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen delivered a bronze-winning time of 21.93.<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s Ben Proud (21.94), Italy’s Marco Orsi (22.09), Russia’s Andrey Grechin (22.10), Greece’s Kristian Gkolomeev (22.13) and Ukraine’s Andriy Govorov (22.14) closed out the rest of the finale field.<\/p>\n
Women’s 50 breast<\/h1>\n
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Olympic gold medalist Ruta Meilutyte, who already won a pair of Youth Olympic golds in Nanjing, China before jet-setting to Berlin for the 50 breaststroke, wound up winning the sprint European title with a 29.89. \u00a0That’s just off her world-leading meet record of 29.88 from the semifinal heats and closes out a truly productive week of swimming for the Britain-based Lithuanian.<\/p>\n
Sweden’s Jennie Johansson finished second in 30.52 with The Netherlands’s Moniek Nijhuis placing third in 30.64. Johansson has been faster with a fourth-ranked 30.39 from Swedish Nationals, while Njhuis moved up to an eighth-ranked tie with Corrie Scott in the world rankings.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Mariya Liver (30.68), Germany’s Dorothea Brandt (30.82), Czech’s Petra Chocova (31.13), Ireland’s Fiona Doyle (31.37) and Iceland’s Hilda Luthersdottir (31.53) put up the rest of the times in the finale.<\/p>\n
Women’s 200 fly<\/h1>\n
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Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia capped a remarkable week of swimming with a dominant effort in the women’s 200-meter fly. \u00a0She raced her way to a 2:04.79 for the win, cutting a second off Otylia Jedrzejczak’s 2002 meet record of 2:05.78, and moving to within a second of Katinka Hosszu’s European record of 2:04.27 from 2009. In fact, Belmonte Garcia is the only sub-2:05 swimmer this year, besting Natsumi Hoshi’s 2:05.98 set at the Japanese Nationals by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
Belmonte Garcia’s teammate Judit Ignacio Sorribes finished second in 2:06.66, while Hosszu collected yet another medal with a bronze-winning 2:07.28. \u00a0Ignacio Sorribes beat her fifth-ranked 2:06.79 by a bit, while Hosszu moved up to a ninth-ranked tie with Jiao Liuyang with her swim.<\/p>\n
Belmonte Garcia’s Splits:<\/h2>\n
28.76 (2) 1:00.63 (1)
\n31.87 1:32.61 (1)
\n31.98 2:04.79
\n32.18<\/p>\nHungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos (2:08.03), Italy’s Stefania Pirozzi (2:08.31), Germany’s Franziska Hentke (2:08.93), Switzerland’s Martina Van Berkel (2:10.28) and Italy’s Alessia Polieri (2:11.58) finished fourth through eighth in the swift finale.<\/p>\n
Men’s 400 IM<\/h1>\n
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Hungary’s David Verraszto might not have led wire-to-wire, but once he moved into the lead in the backstroke there was little doubt he would dominate the finale as he won in 4:11.89. \u00a0That swim was nearly two seconds ahead of silver-winning Roberto Pavoni of Great Britain’s 4:13.75. \u00a0Italy’s Federico Turrini took third place overall in 4:14.15.<\/p>\n
Verraszto moved up to eighth in the world with his swim, while Pavoni could not duplicate his ninth-ranked season best of 4:12.24 from the British Nationals. \u00a0Turrini bettered his 4:14.58 from Italian Spring Nationals, but remained 14th overall in the world.<\/p>\n
Verraszto’s Splits:<\/h2>\n
27.13 (3) 57.37 (2)
\n30.24 1:30.12 (2)
\n32.75 2:02.01 (1)
\n31.89 2:36.76 (1)
\n34.75 3:12.27 (1)
\n35.51 3:42.55 (1)
\n30.28 4:11.89
\n29.34<\/p>\nGreat Britain’s Max Litchfield (4:14.97), Germany’s Yannick Lebherz (4:16.17), Germany’s Jacob Heidtmann (4:18.10), Portugal’s Alexis Manacas Santos (4:18.28) and Slovakia’s Richard Nagy (4:18.66) also vied for the continental title in the distance medley.<\/p>\n
Women’s 400 free<\/h1>\n
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It is unreal how much Katie Ledecky has adjusted the mindset of what is “fast” in the middle distance free. \u00a0With sub-4:00s almost becoming routine for Ledecky, a pair of swimmers hitting the wall in 4:03 tonight in Europe doesn’t immediately ring any bells. \u00a0But, upon a further look, Great Britain’s Jazz Carlin (4:03.24) and The Netherlands’ Sharon Rouwendaal (4:03.76) had a pretty impressive set of performances in Berlin.<\/p>\n
In fact, Carlin moved up to second in the world behind Ledecky with her time, while open-water star Rouwendaal is now third in the world ahead of Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s 4:03.84 from Spanish Nationals.<\/p>\n
Carlin’s Splits:<\/h2>\n
28.66 (3) 59.42 (3)
\n30.76 1:30.39 (2)
\n30.97 2:01.63 (2)
\n31.24 2:32.53 (1)
\n30.90 3:03.49 (2)
\n30.96 3:33.84 (1)
\n30.35 4:03.24
\n29.40<\/p>\nRouwendaal’s Splits:<\/h2>\n
29.09 (5) 1:00.15 (5)
\n31.06 1:31.10 (5)
\n30.95 2:02.28 (5)
\n31.18 2:33.02 (5)
\n30.74 3:04.00 (4)
\n30.98 3:34.18 (3)
\n30.18 4:03.76
\n29.58<\/p>\nFresh off her 200 fly victory, Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia snared bronze in 4:04.01, while Italy’s Federica Pellegrini finished fourth in 4:04.42.<\/p>\n
Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas (4:06.61), Spain’s Melanie Costa Schmid (4:07.42), Denmark’s Lotte Friis (4:10.13) and Italy’s Diletta Carli (4:12.56) also swam in the finale.<\/p>\n
Women’s 400 medley relay<\/h1>\n
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