2023 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – BERLIN
- October 6-8, 2023
- Berlin, Germany
- LCM (50 meters)
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Day one of the Berlin stop of the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup saw the first series record already bite the dust.
Racing in the heats of the men’s 100m breaststroke, China’s Qin Haiyang fired off a time of 58.41 to take the top seed for tonight’s final. His time overtook the previous World Cup Record of 58.73 Belarusian Ilya Shymanovich put on the books at the Tokyo stop in 2019.
As for Qin’s morning performance, the 24-year-old opened in 27.43 and closed in 30.98 to stake his claim on the gold. The next-closest swimmer to Qin’s 58.41 was Dutch ace Arno Kamminga, with the two-time Olympic silver medalist clocking 59.26 while teammate Caspar Corbeau was next in 59.77.
British World Record holder Adam Peaty produced a heats swim of 1:00.03 to rank 5th and put his hat in the ring for this evening’s main event. As a refresher, Peaty is competing for the first time since having withdrawn from this year’s British Swimming Championships due to mental health reasons.
Qin’s performance is indicative of the man holding form since sweeping the breaststroke events at this year’s World Championships. In Fukuoka, Qin clocked a time of 26.29 to win the 50m, an Asian Record of 57.69 to take the 100m and a World Record of 2:05.48 to top the 200m podium.
He’s going to have to go much faster in finals to take down Peaty’s world record mark.
I wondering what Cate has for the final. Sub 24 possibly?
Mandrew has abandoned the straight arm technique.
I wonder if we will see a 2IM here. Do you like his new stroke?
So no longer looking like T-Rex?
LeClos2.0 coming back the second 50 slower than MA the surfer. Guess he needs to step up to the 3.0 version
The 2.0 version only worked in short course. He’ll find a new excuse to swim slow again
Why isn’t there an article about all the other events just the one breastroke event ?
Armbruster would’ve been a real asset at WC’s, a shame.
Thankfully he is primed to deliver in Paris.
He’s swimming really well but would he have made a difference in any events?
We shall see what he drops in 5 hours. But probably no changes medal wise, maybe he could’ve been faster than Temple in the MMR, but by enough to overtake China is a stretch.
A second option would’ve been great for energy management regardless.
This sees Huegill drop from the Top 10 Aussie performers in the event
Isaac Cooper 21:95 that’s fast
Great first 50 from Adam. It’s early days.
Interesting the people who downvoted this! He has not raced since February!
They are peaty’s haters
Clearly! That was a good heat swim for someone who hasn’t raced in 8 months!
Corbeau 59.77 split 27.84
Arno 59.26 split 27.66
Nicolo 59.99 split 28.03
Adam 1.00.03 split 27.67
Nic 1.00.46 split 28.48
Qin’s split was 27.43
So, how is Adam’s swim not pretty good, after such a lay off?
Worth nothing this result is in consonance with his swim before the 2016 Olympics via Propulsion Swimming/X