{"id":599940,"date":"2024-11-22T03:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=599940"},"modified":"2024-11-22T03:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:09:17","slug":"roman-mityukov-and-noe-ponti-headline-switzerland-team-for-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/roman-mityukov-and-noe-ponti-headline-switzerland-team-for-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Mityukov and No\u00e8 Ponti\u00a0Headline Switzerland Team For Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roman Mityukov and No\u00e8 Ponti Headline Switzerland Team For Budapest<\/h4>\n

Roman Mityukov<\/strong> and No\u00e8 Ponti\u00a0<\/strong>are among six athletes who will represent Switzerland<\/strong> at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest next month.<\/p>\n

The six were selected for the meet that runs from 10-15 December at the Duna Arena following last weekend’s Swiss Championships in Sursee.<\/p>\n

Mityukov has reached the podium at every major international meet this year, starting his bull run at the World Championships in Doha where he won 200 back silver behind Hugo Gonz\u00e1lez <\/b>of Spain which he followed that up with bronze at the European Championships in Belgrade.<\/p>\n

He headed to Paris less than six weeks later where he won 200 back bronze<\/a> in a Swiss record of 1:54.85 behind Hubert Kos<\/strong> and Apostolos Christou<\/strong> as European men enjoyed a clean sweep of the podium.<\/p>\n

Mityukov\u2019s medal was the fourth for Switzerland in the Olympic pool, all of them bronze. Jeremy Desplanches\u00a0<\/strong>and Ponti were third in the 200IM and 100 fly respectively in Tokyo with Etienne Dagon<\/strong> on the third step of the 200m breaststroke rostrum in Los Angeles in 1984.<\/p>\n

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Noe Ponti: Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala, Deepbluemedia<\/p><\/div>\n

Ponti is currently doing military service in Switzerland and will head to Budapest on the back of a record-breaking World Cup tour.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old lowered the 50 fly s\/c world record to 21.67 at the first stop in Shanghai before slicing a further 0.17 in Singapore<\/a> to stop the clock at 21.50.<\/p>\n

He also lowered his European 100 fly standard to 48.40 <\/a>and finished second in the men’s overall standings<\/a> behind Leon Marchand<\/strong> with the pair set to reunite in the Hungarian capital.<\/p>\n

Ponti continued rewriting the Swiss history books last weekend in Sursee with a 50 free record of 21.18 leading off the SC Uster 4×50 free squad to victory, also in a national mark of 1:27.79.<\/p>\n

He clinched an historic clean sweep of the butterfly events at last year’s European Short-Course Championships in Otopeni while also finishing second in the 100IM.<\/p>\n

He was fourth in the 100 fly in Paris and fifth in the 200 although he told Swimming World that he is taking a break from the longer race – at least in the long-course pool – as he finds it mentally and physically draining.<\/p>\n