2018 Euros Day 2 Pick’em Update: Big Favorites Deliver

2018 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

• August 3-9, 2018 (swimming portion)
• Glasgow, Scotland
• Tollcross International Swimming Centre
• Meet Central
• Program
• Psych Sheet
• Live Results

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The first event of the night, the women’s 800 free, was won by Simona Quadarella, correctly picked by 69% of entries. Pick’em contestants did less well in the minor places. Only 4% got Anja Kesely in 2nd correct. Only 1 person out of over 200 correctly picked Anna Egorova 3rd (well done Silvia), and 3% had Sarah Koehler 4th.

The men’s 100 breast was a no doubter and everyone picked Adam Peaty to win (100%). Behind him was tougher, only 2 people got James Wilby (1%) right in 2nd. A reasonable 22% got Anton Chupkov in 3rd and 5% had Kirill Prigoda in 4th.

The women’s 100 fly was perhaps the easiest event of the meet to pick so far. 100% got Sarah Sjostrom in 1st, 45% had Svetlana Chimrova 2nd, 25% got Elena Di Liddo 3rd, and a solid 21% had Illaria Bianchi 4th.

The men’s 50 back saw the first winner of the day correctly picked by less than 50% of entries. Kliment Kolesnikov was picked by 45% to win. Favored Vladimir Morozov (2%) was 4th. Between them were Robert-Andrei Glinta (4%) and Shane Ryan (11%).

People were less confident in 50 free winner Sarah Sjostrom (78%) than in the 100 fly. Sjostrom touched out Pernille Blume (51%) by only .01. Ranomi Kromowidjojo (67%) was 3rd and Mariia Kameneva (24%) was 4th to round out the top 4.

The mixed 800 free relay saw Germany (1%) beat out favored Russia (27%) and Great Britain (12%). Hungary (18%) were 4th.

Standings

The day 2 winner was PaoBeds with 68 points. They were followed by SwimSwam’s own JSutherlandSS with 67 and Emg1986 with 67. If you’re not in the top 10, you can check your ranking here.

UPDATE: There was an error in yesterdays scoring that was introduced between today and yesterday. Yesterday’s article was still correct, but the original overall standings here were incorrect. They have been updated.

There was a change in the overall leader day 2 as SwimSwam’s JSutherlandSS sits first with 102 points. He is followed by Dee with 99, Nsgrr with 99, and Capolupii with 98.