{"id":490916,"date":"2021-11-08T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=490916"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:48:33","slug":"the-week-that-was-szabo-shymanovich-tie-world-records-during-busy-european-short-course-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-szabo-shymanovich-tie-world-records-during-busy-european-short-course-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was: Szabo, Shymanovich Tie World Records During Busy European Short Course Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week in swimming was highlighted by six days of racing at the European Short Course Championships in Kazan, Russia, where\u00a0Szebastian Szabo<\/strong> tied the world record in the men’s 50 fly and Ilya Shymanovich <\/strong>pulled the same feat in the men’s 50 breast, among other swift performances. In the United States, Virginia and Texas met in a dual meet, and Virginia’s stacked women’s team of Olympians was highly impressive, as was Texas sophomore Carson Foster<\/strong> as he recorded some of the fastest dual meet times ever. And after a long wait, the home and date of this year’s ISL final is confirmed.<\/p>\n

Read the five biggest stories of the week in The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/p>\n

The Week That Was #1: <\/strong>Szebastian Szabo and Ilya Shymanovich Match World Records; Six Days of Action at European Short Course Championships<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Ilya Shymanovich — Photo Courtesy: Andrea Staccioli \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n

By Liz Byrnes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Szebastian Szabo <\/strong>matched the 50 fly world record and\u00a0Kira Toussaint<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong>\u00a0each secured a golden treble at the European Short-Course Championships in Kazan, Russia.<\/p>\n

Szabo flew to 21.75 to equal\u00a0Nicholas Santos<\/strong>\u2018 mark from October 2018 as the Hungarian claimed his third title of the week at the Aquatics Palace.<\/p>\n

Szabo has been on golden form this week with victories in the 50 free and 100 fly and booked lane four with a championship record of 22.00<\/p>\n

He had a fantastic start and was first to turn, coming home to equal the world record set by Brazil\u2019s\u00a0Nicholas Santos<\/strong>\u00a0in October 2018.<\/p>\n

Matteo Rivolta<\/strong>\u00a0set an Italian record of 22.14 for second with teammate\u00a0Thomas Ceccon<\/strong>\u00a0third in 22.24.<\/p>\n

Szabo said:<\/p>\n

\u201cOh man, that one hundredth\u2026 Ok, I\u2019m also a world record holder now and the European mark is mine too so it\u2019s great, really great.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the plan, to have a swim like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe start was terrific and then I gave all I had. In fact, I did a lot of racing which helped me a lot to excel here but at the same time I also start feeling the fatigue nowadays \u2013 but it\u2019s more while I\u2019m on dryland, once I jump to the pool I feel I could go as fast as I want.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s better this way than the opposite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With a nod to modesty, he added:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I still don\u2019t feel I\u2019m a great star of this sport, the three golds are fine, the record too but I\u2019m not the kind of person who will run around celebrating.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to claim all these medals, happy to be able to achieve these results but I just wish to go back to the training pool and get ready for the World Championships too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One day later, Ilya Shymanovich<\/strong>\u00a0equalled\u00a0Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong>\u2018s 50 breaststroke world record when he went 25.25 at the European Short-Course Championships in Kazan.<\/p>\n

Nicolo Martinenghi<\/strong>\u00a0had gone within 0.12 of Van der Burgh\u2019s global standard in the semis in 25.37.<\/p>\n

It was the Belarus swimmer who stopped the clock first to tie the South African\u2019s WR set in November 2009.<\/p>\n

It was his second gold medal of the meet following the 200 title on Saturday (By 0.01 over Arno Kamminga) <\/strong>and meant he left the Aquatics Palace with three after also taking silver over 100m.<\/p>\n

Shymanovich then went on to split 24.72 as Belarus came fifth in the mixed 4\u00d750 medley relay.<\/p>\n

Emre Sakci<\/strong>\u00a0was second in 25.39 and Martinenghi third in 25.54.<\/p>\n

Shymanovich said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is incredible, I wanted to improve my personal best and I kind of did it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everything went well, I didn\u2019t commit any mistake. All what I could do, I did, so I\u2019m really happy now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0David Popovici<\/strong> claimed his first senior title in the 200 free, and Anastasia Gorbenko<\/strong>\u00a0added the 200IM short-course title to her long-course gold and the Netherlands won the mixed 4\u00d750 free.<\/p>\n

On the final day, Ilya Borodin<\/strong> made history when he went 3:58.83 for gold in the 400IM to slice 0.32 from Daiya Seto<\/strong>\u2018s WJR of 3:59.15 which had stood to the Japanese swimmer since December 2012.<\/p>\n

The last two races of the six-day meet then brought a European mark of 7:27.94 for\u00a0Gregorio Paltrinieri<\/strong>\u00a0in the 800 free as he lowered\u00a0Yannick Agnel\u2019<\/strong>s 2012 record.<\/p>\n

In the final race,\u00a0Thom de Boer<\/strong>\u00a0propelled the\u00a0Netherlands<\/strong>\u00a0to gold and a world record of 1:36.18 in the mixed 4\u00d750 medley relay<\/a> after diving in at 150 in sixth.<\/p>\n

Russia headed the standings with 11 gold, five silver and eight bronze medals ahead of the Netherlands (8, 5, 5) with Italy third with seven golds.<\/p>\n

More from the European Short Course Championships:<\/strong><\/p>\n