2023 BERGEN SWIM FESTIVAL
- Friday, April 21st – Sunday, April 23rd
- Ado Arena, Bergen, Norway
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
On day two of the 2023 Bergen Swim Festival Jon Jontvedt of Norway fired off a new meet record en route to topping the men’s 800m free podium.
19-year-old Jontvedt produced a time of 7:48.97 to get to the wall first, beating out Olympian Henrik Christiansen in the process. Christiansen settled for silver in 7:49.39 while Birk Lee Johansen finished well back in 8:19.46 for bronze.
As for Jontvedt, the teen had never before broken the 7:50 barrier, entering this meet with a previous personal best of 7:52.21 from this same competition last year. However, his effort now ranks him 11th in the world on the season.
Additionally, both Jontvedt’s and Christiansen’s times dip under the World Aquatics ‘A’ time standard of 7:53.11 needed for this summer’s World Championships.
2022-2023 LCM Men 800 Free
Hafnaoui
7:37.00
| 2 | Samuel Short | AUS | 7:37.76 | 07/26 |
| 3 | Bobby Finke | USA | 7:38.67 | 07/26 |
| 4 | Daniel Wiffen | IRL | 7:39.19 | 07/26 |
| 5 | Lukas Martens | GER | 7:39.48 | 07/26 |
| 6 | Sven Schwarz | GER | 7:41.77 | 08/13 |
| 7 | Aleksandr Stepanov | RUS | 7:42.47 | 04/18 |
| 8 | Florian Wellbrock | GER | 7:42.99 | 04/22 |
| 9 | Mykhaylo Romanchuk | UKR | 7:43.08 | 07/26 |
| 10 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | ITA | 7:44.89 | 07/25 |
| 11 | Elijah Winnington | AUS | 7:45.75 | 06/15 |
| 12 | Guilherme Costa | BRA | 7:45.80 | 07/25 |
Additional Notes
- Erik Persson doubled up on his 200m breast victory from earlier in the meet with a win in the 100m breast. Persson touched in 1:01.12 to take gold in well over a second ahead of the field.
- The men’s 100m back saw Markus Lie top the podium in a result of 55.20, while the women’s race saw Hanna Rosvall grab gold in 1:00.98.
How many swimmers have been under 7:50 this year? From the FINA ranking, I can see that it is at least 1 more swimmer (Lamberti).
Winnington also dipped under at Aus Nationals 7:49.81
Since the 800 became an event at Worlds and the Olympics, the number of people under 7:50 have gone up (Based on FINA annual World Ranking):
2013 – 9
2014 – 8
2015 – 11
2016 – 7
2017 – 7
2018 – 10
2019 – 19
2020 – 7
2021 – 16
2022 – 18
2023 (what I have seen as of today, April 23): 14
We still have more than half of the long course season to go (and >2/3 of the Calendar year left) including this summer’s World Champs, I think we will end up with more than 20 swimmers under 7:50, but will we have more than 25 men under 7:50?
400 and 1500 depth is also improving.