Ponti, Ceccon, Dean & Gastaldello Among Winners At Swann Oberson Meet

54th INTERNATIONAL MEETING SWANN OBERSON (SUI)

• Friday, May 15th – Sunday, May 17th
• Geneva, Switzerland
• LCM (50m)
• Results

The 54th International Meeting Swann Oberson took place in Geneva, Switzerland this past weekend, with the three-day affair attracting Olympic talent from Italy, France, Great Britain, and beyond.

The meet brought about numerous competition records despite the results being on the pedestrian side overall, indicative of where this meet fell among the European Championships and Commonwealth Games qualification schedule.

For example, Aquatics GB Championships already took place last month, as did the Swiss Nationals, while the French Trials are coming up in June.

Meet Records

• Manuel Frigo (ITA) – men’s 100m free (49.31)
• Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (FRA) – men’s 50m back (25.07)
• Boroka Kertesz (HUN) – women’s 200m fly (2:12.96)
• Marius Toscan (SUI) – men’s 200m fly (2:00.99), 400m IM (4:22.77)
• Kay-Lyn Loehr (SUI) – women’s 200m IM (2:16.35)
• Tom Dean (GBR) – men’s 200m IM (2:01.72)
• Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) – women’s 100m back (1:00.63), 100m free (54.95), 50m free (25.36)
• Fabio Dalu (ITA) – men’s 400m free (3:54.07)
• Maxime Grousset (FRA) – men’s 50m free (21.94), 100m fly (52.33)
• Lou-Anne Guiton (FRA) – women’s 200m back (2:13.08)
• Giada Alzetta (ITA) – women’s 400m IM (4:49.41)

Additional Highlights

• Olympic champion and world record holder Adam Ramsay-Peaty of Great Britain topped the podium in both the men’s 50m breast and 100m breast. He clocked times of 27.15 in the former and 1:00.08 in the latter to get the job done. At the Aquatics GB Championships, the 31-year-old notched marks of 26.64 and 58.97 to rank 4th and 5th in the world, respectively.
• In addition to the meet records listed above, 31-year-old French swimmer Gastaldello also nabbed victories in the 50m free (25.36) and 50m back (28.10). The Olympian’s season-best in the 50m free remains at the 24.74 put up at March’s Giant Open, while her 50m back season-best stands at the 28.03 logged at the Pro Swim Series in Austin this past January.
• Olympic medalist Roman Mityukov of the host nation delivered a time of 54.31 to take the men’s 100m back, registering the sole time of the field under the 57-second threshold. He also placed 2nd in the 200m back (1:57.72) behind Italian Olympic champion Thomas Ceccon, who put up a mark of 1:57.27 as the gold medalist.
• Dean of Great Britain posted an outing of 50.10 to snag the 100m free silver behind meet record-setting Frigo (49.31) of Italy.
• The men’s 200m free saw Roman Fuchs of France get to the wall first in 1:48.95, with Ceccon clocking 1:49.28 and Dean hitting 1:49.73 as the respective silver and bronze medalists.
• Noe Ponti of Switzerland turned in a time of 23.23 to earn the 50m fly victory as the sole competitor under the 25-second threshold. The Olympic medalist currently ranks 4th in the world in this event, courtesy of the 22.96 he registered at last month’s Swiss Championships.