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That slices 0.13 from his 23.42 standard from November last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kai van Westering<\/strong> set Dutch 100 and 200 back records during the opening two days. He was the first Dutchman home in the 50 although his 23.98 was 0.61 outside the cut.<\/p>\n<p>More championship records tumbled thanks to <strong>Tatjana Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Tessa Giele<\/strong> and <strong>Eszter Szabo-Feltothy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Smith was just 0.03 off her African 100 breaststroke record in 1:03.92 as she continues her return from retirement. She was back in the water on Saturday for the 200 prelims where she went 2:21.26 for another CR before returning in the evening to lower it to 2:19.96. That elevates the South African into the top 10 for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rafaela Mulders<\/strong> was the first Dutchwoman home although 2:27.26 was outside the cut thereby rubber-stamping <strong>Tes Schouten\u2019s<\/strong> trip to Beijing after she swam the QT on the World Cup tour.<\/p>\n<p>Giele was well inside the 100IM cut in 59.01 as she adds a second swim to her programme on top of the 50 back.<\/p>\n<p>Szabo-Feltothy dominated the 400IM with the Hungarian coming home in 4:36.66, 6.69secs ahead of <strong>Marte Hieke van der Kamp <\/strong>who was the first Dutchwoman home in 4:43.35.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Imani de Jong<\/strong> added the 200 free to her 400 title in 1:53.81, well inside the cut for Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivo Kroes<\/strong> won the men\u2019s 200m breaststroke (2:06.50) with <strong>Tiago Fonseca Gomes<\/strong> taking the men\u2019s 200 fly (1:57.89).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Niewold &amp; Noah Verreth Down National Records At Dutch Qualifiers Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Sean Niewold and Noah Verreth stamped Dutch and Belgian records as Beijing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":655964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074],"tags":[138591,93800,135267,133183,136992,135809,134157,75876,130673],"class_list":["post-655960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","tag-dutch-qualifiers","tag-eszter-szabo-feltothy","tag-imani-de-jong","tag-kai-van-westering","tag-noah-verreth","tag-sean-niewold","tag-tatjana-smith","tag-tes-schouten","tag-tessa-giele"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Sean Niewold &amp; 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