{"id":582210,"date":"2024-03-26T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=582210"},"modified":"2024-03-26T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:30:53","slug":"sarah-sjostrom-and-noe-ponti-voted-top-swimmers-at-2023-european-aquatics-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sarah-sjostrom-and-noe-ponti-voted-top-swimmers-at-2023-european-aquatics-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m and\u00a0No\u00e8\u00a0Ponti Voted Top Swimmers At 2023 European Aquatics Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Sarah Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m and No\u00e8 Ponti Voted Top Swimmers At 2023 European Aquatics Awards<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sarah Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>No\u00e8\u00a0Ponti<\/strong> have been named Europe&#8217;s top swimmers of 2023 in the <strong>European Aquatics Awards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fifth time Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m has won the women&#8217;s award while Ponti becomes the first Swiss swimmer to have been given the accolade.<\/p>\n<p>The Awards were first held in 2008, based on the votes of national federations with the public voting for the first time last year when\u00a0<strong>Ruta Meilutyte<\/strong>\u00a0snapped Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m\u2019s streak of four straight wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Swede was backed by the federations in the 2023 Awards with Meilutyte getting the public support of more than 12,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m won out by more than 5% to take top spot ahead of Meilutyte and\u00a0<strong>Benedetta Pilato<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Olympic medallist destroyed the field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-seven-finals-sarah-sjostrom-speeds-to-fifth-straight-title-in-50-butterfly-also-ties-michael-phelps-record\/\">to claim her fifth consecutive gold<\/a> in the 50m butterfly at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p>Victory moved her level with <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong> for the most individual medals won in World Championships competition with 20 solo honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m returned to the pool around 20 minutes later for the semi-finals of the 50m freestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-seven-semifinals-sarah-sjostrom-takes-down-world-record-in-50-freestyle-semis\/\">lowered her own world record to 23.61secs<\/a>, six years to the day after setting the previous standard of 23.67 at the 2017 worlds in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The following day, Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m beat the field by almost half a second en-route to her third World 50 free title in 23.62 for the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0individual title of her career, moving her clear of Phelps to become the most decorated athlete in solo events in World Championship history.<\/p>\n<p>She would go on to reclaim the fly and free titles at the 2024 World Championships in Doha.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_518133\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518133\" data-attachment-id=\"518133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-2-photo-gallery\/16th-fina-world-short-course-swimming-championships-2022-259\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/world-short-course-championships-day-1-finals-GS27166A.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Giorgio Scala \\\/ Deepbluemedia \\\/ Insidefoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Noe Ponti of Switzerland competes in the 50m Butterfly men Final during the FINA Swimming Short Course World Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia, December 14th, 2022. 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Photo Giorgio Scala \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto 2022, Sport, FINA, Aquatics, Short Course, World Aquatics, Swimming, Championships, World Championships, 50m Butterfly men Final&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/world-short-course-championships-day-1-finals-GS27166A-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/world-short-course-championships-day-1-finals-GS27166A-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-518133\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/world-short-course-championships-day-1-finals-GS27166A-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Noe Ponti of Switzerland competes in the 50m Butterfly men Final during the FINA Swimming Short Course World Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia, December 14th, 2022. Photo Giorgio Scala \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-518133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No\u00e8 Ponti: Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Fukuoka, Ponti was far off the form that secured him Olympic bronze in the 100 fly in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss athlete was seventh in the 100 fly and didn&#8217;t reach the 50 or 200 finals.<\/p>\n<p>However, at the <strong>European Short-Course Championships<\/strong> in December 2023, Ponti won the butterfly treble, setting a European record of 48.47 over 100m to take 0.01secs from <strong>Evgeny Korotyshkin\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0standard that had stood since November 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ponti followed that up with the 200m title before becoming the first man to complete the treble with victory in the 50m where his time of 21.79 was just 0.04secs outside the world record and sent him third in the all-time rankings.<\/p>\n<p>He also won silver in the 100m individual medley, describing Otopeni as &#8220;redemption&#8221; for Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ponti won 50% of the federation votes for the men\u2019s award with <strong>Daniel Wiffen<\/strong> heading the public support after a year in which the Irishman set a world 800 free short-course record and a European 800 l\/c mark en-route to two fourth places in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Swiss ultimately enjoyed a clear victory ahead of\u00a0<strong>Leon Marchand<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 who downed\u00a0<strong><em>Michael Phelps\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0400IM world record among three World titles \u2013 and Wiffen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m and No\u00e8 Ponti Voted Top Swimmers At 2023 European Aquatics Awards Sarah Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m and\u00a0No\u00e8\u00a0Ponti have been named Europe&#8217;s top swimmers of 2023 in the European Aquatics Awards. 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