Live : 4e et dernière étape du FFN Golden Tour… by FFN
The fourth stop on the FFN Golden Tour will hit Nancy this weekend and once again the French contingent of stars looks to be out in full force.
The competition will run from Friday May 22nd-Sunday May 24th.
- Prelims 9 am GMT+1 (3 am EST/12 am PST)
- Finals 6 pm (12 pm EST/9 am PST), Sunday 3:30 pm (9:30 am EST/6:30 am PST)
- Live Results
The French athletes will include:
Coralie Balmy, Charlotte Bonnet, Anna Santamans, Marie Wattel, Melanie Henique, Yannick Agnel, Frederick Bousquet, Fabien Gilot, Camille Lacourt, Gregory Mallet, Florent Manaudou, Mehdy Metella, Clement Mignon and Jeremy Stravius.
Katinka Hosszu, who sits atop of the points leaderboard for the tour, will also be in attendance.
PRIZE MONEY
The swimmers compete for prize money in 28 individual events over 3 days. The top eight in each event are awarded points (12-9-7-5-4-3-2-1), and at the end of the meet the following prize money will be awarded:
| Women | Per Meet | Men | Mer Meet | |
| High point | €4000 | High point | €4000 | |
| #2 | €2500 | #2 | €2500 | |
| #3 | €2000 | #3 | €2000 | |
| #4 | €1200 | #4 | €1200 | |
| #5 | €1000 | #5 | €1000 | |
| #6 | €700 | #6 | €700 | |
| #7 | €600 | #7 | €600 | |
| #8 | €500 | #8 | €500 |
Metella has a powerful stroke and good underwaters (at least relative to the swimmers in this field). Do you think he has the potential for top 8 in the 100 fly in Kazan? Butterfly seems to be a crowded event right now.
PB of 51.74 at French nationals.
Hopefully he will make a final at worlds. It would very disappointed if he didn’t make it. He has the talent to medal in Rio in my opinion. But he’s still young and has yet a lot of things to improve.
OK, then I’ll root for him to get the bronze in Russia behind Shields and Phillips! 😉
Have a sense of humor, all you trigger-finger down-voters! 🙂
It would be disappointing if he didn’t make a final at worlds but I’m realistic. A podium looks tough to reach for this year with Le Clos as huge favorite and then Shields, Czerniak or Tsurkin for the other medals.
Last individual race of day 1. Men’s 100 fly
Mehdy Metella wins in 53.51. Bearded and tired.
Women’s 100 fly
Alexandra Wenk wins in 58.77. German swimmers look rested.
Katinka Hosszu and Marie Wattel tied for second in 59.05.
German domination in the men’s 100 breast.
Marco Koch wins in 1.00.97.
Hendrick Feldwehr second in 1.01.28.
Christian Von Lehm third in 1.01.68.
GPD 4th in 1.02.08.
Breaststroke seems to be the stroke the Germans have the most depth in right now.
Charlotte Bonnet wins the 100 breast in 1.09.30.
Hosszu second in 1.09.58.
Very easy 200 back win for Christian Diener in 1.58.32.
Camille Lacourt 7th in 2.09.45. As expected it was very long for him but at least he’s still alive. Good training.
Lacourt in the 200 back final. First time I watch him swim that event. Hopefully he will not drown because that’s very long for him. 🙂
2.06.81 for Hosszu! 😯
Very close to the old Hungarian national record of 2.06.62
Former world record by Krisztina Egerszegi in 2.06.62 in 1991 at European championships in Athens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0g8Y11mgoQ
Amazing! She is near the Hungarian record at a mid-season meet! I guess we know that will be one of the events she chooses for Kazan. I think Hosszu is better in the 200 back than she is in the 200 fly now!
Yes. Backstroke is clearly her best stroke now.
200 IM/400 IM/200 back/100 back/200 fly are her best events in that order in my opinion.
With a big world and olympic gold medal chance in the 200 IM.
A world and olympic gold medal chance in the 400 IM.
A silver or bronze world and olympic medal chance in the 200 back.
A small medal chance in the 100 back.
No medal chances in the rest.
Her 200 free time was quite good in Charlotte. Don’t you think she might have a much chance in that as in the 200 fly?