{"id":610730,"date":"2025-04-22T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=610730"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:49:31","slug":"maria-lenk-trophy-around-sam-short-meet-record-brazil-qualifies-4-400-freestylers-for-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/maria-lenk-trophy-around-sam-short-meet-record-brazil-qualifies-4-400-freestylers-for-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Lenk Trophy: Around Sam Short Meet Record, Brazil Qualifies 4 400 Freestylers for Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Lenk Trophy: Around Sam Short Meet Record, Brazil Qualifies 4 400 Freestylers for Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n

A guest appearance by Australian World Champion Sam Short<\/strong> was a harbinger for fast distance swimming on Monday at the opening day of the Maria Lenk Trophy in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Short won the men\u2019s 400 freestyle win a meet record, and two Brazilian men and two women joined him in besting the automatic qualifying time for the World Championships in Singapore this summer.<\/p>\n

On the women\u2019s side, Maria Fernanda Costa<\/strong> bested her Unisanta teammate Gabrielle Roncatto<\/strong> by less than a quarter second. Costa\u2019s time of 4:06.30 got her to the wall first, with Roncatto second in 4:06.53. Both were comfortably under the Worlds A standard of 4:10.23. Aline Rodrigues<\/strong> was third in 4:11.78.<\/p>\n

Short led the men\u2019s race start to finish. He went 3:47.84 in prelims, then 3:44.16 to set the meet mark in finals. But the 2023 World Champion had company.<\/p>\n

Guilherme Costa,<\/strong> who finished a spot behind Short in the Paris Olympic final in fifth and holds the national record, got to Worlds with a time of 3:45.35. Stephan Steverink<\/strong> followed in 3:47.21, less than a second under the A cut for the Flamengo swimmer in home waters. Fourth was Eduardo Oliveira de Moraes<\/strong> in 3:48.83.<\/p>\n