2019 EUROPEAN JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, July 3rd – Sunday, July 7th
- Aquatics Palace, Kazan, Russia
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Italy remains on top of the medals table after day 2 of the 2019 European Junior Championships, but only by a hair after the German team surged on Thursday.
Italy picked up a pair of golds in backstroke races when Thomas Ceccon won the boys’ 100 backstroke (54.13) and Erika Gaetani won the girls’ 200 backstroke (2:10.28). But a headline performance from Germany’s Isabel Gose, who is coming straight down from altitude training for this meet, pulled the Germans nearly-even: first she won gold in the 400 free in 4:07.96, which was more than 2 seconds ahead of the field; and 45-minutes later she won gold in the 100 free in 54.86, taking a 1-2 German finish with countrymate Maya Tobehn.
Gose then finished the day with a 54.42 anchor split to bring the Germans from behind to overtake Russia in the mixed 400 free relay.
Germany’s 4 gold medals this year already easily surpass the 1 they won in 2018. In fact, it’s more than Germany has won in the last 3 editions, combined, and is already their best single-meet total since 2014 when they won 4. All of this comes on day 2.
The Italian story is just as enticing – after a breakthrough European (senior edition) Championship in 2018, their momentum is continuing to grow in the youth ranks. They had 0 gold medals last year after 5 in 2017. If next year (2020) plays out like the year after their big Euro Juniors in 2017 did, the Italians are going to win a lot of medals in Tokyo.
| MEDALS AFTER 13 EVENTS | |||||||
| RANK | NAT | TOTAL | |||||
| G | S | B | TOTAL | RNK BY TOTAL | |||
| 1 | ITALY | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | |
| 2 | GERMANY | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | ||
| 3 | RUSSIA | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 1 | |
| 4 | SWITZERLAND | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 5 | HUNGARY | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 6 | SPAIN | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 7 |
GREAT BRITAIN
|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 8 | TURKEY | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 8 | LITHUANIA | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 8 | NETHERLANDS | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 11 | FRANCE | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 12 | BELARUS | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 12 |
CZECH REPUBLIC
|
1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 12 | SWEDEN | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 12 | FINLAND | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| TOTAL | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 | |||
Russia, meanwhile, continues to show the best depth of the field. While their 2 gold medals doesn’t put them on pace to match their historic haul of 18 last year, the Russians have built a clear lead in the Points Trophy standing. The trophy standings offer points for each top 8 finish, and Russia is dominating, especially on the men’s side, where they’ve more-than-doubled their next-closest competitors (Germany).
| TROPHY AFTER 13 EVENTS | ||||||||||||||||||
| RANK | NAT | MEN | WOMEN | MIXED | POINTS | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  RUSSIA |
218 (15) | 210 (15) | 428 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 |  GREAT BRITAIN |
82 (5) | 224 (18) | 306 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 |  ITALY |
94 (7) | 186 (13) | 280 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 |  GERMANY |
102 (7) | 147 (11) | 249 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 |  HUNGARY |
38 (3) | 151 (12) | 189 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 |  FRANCE |
95 (8) | 92 (8) | 187 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 |  SPAIN |
24 (2) | 151 (11) | 175 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 |  TURKEY |
35 (3) | 124 (10) | 159 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 |  POLAND |
63 (4) | 57 (4) | 120 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 |  NETHERLANDS |
54 (4) | 40 (4) | 94 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 |  SWEDEN |
54 (3) | 38 (3) | 92 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 |  GREECE |
59 (5) | 12 (1) | 71 | ||||||||||||||
| 13 |  ISRAEL |
41 (3) | 17 (1) | 58 | ||||||||||||||
| 14 |  SWITZERLAND |
44 (2) | 7 (1) | 51 | ||||||||||||||
| 15 |  CZECH REPUBLIC |
34 (4) | 16 (1) | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| 16 |  FINLAND |
46 (3) | 46 | |||||||||||||||
| 17 |  DENMARK |
8 (2) | 37 (6) | 45 | ||||||||||||||
| 18 |  SLOVENIA |
43 (5) | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| 18 |  SLOVAKIA |
43 (2) | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| 20 |  BELARUS |
22 (2) | 19 (1) | 41 | ||||||||||||||
| 21 |  BELGIUM |
34 (3) | 34 | |||||||||||||||
| 21 |  CROATIA |
34 (5) | 34 | |||||||||||||||
| 23 |  LITHUANIA |
13 (1) | 20 (1) | 33 | ||||||||||||||
| 24 |  PORTUGAL |
14 (1) | 17 (4) | 31 | ||||||||||||||
| 25 |  IRELAND |
16 (1) | 12 (1) | 28 | ||||||||||||||
| 26 |  BULGARIA |
24 (2) | 24 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 |  LATVIA |
21 (2) | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 |  UKRAINE |
21 (2) | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| 29 |  AUSTRIA |
2 (1) | 18 (1) | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| 30 |  NORWAY |
19 (2) | 19 | |||||||||||||||
| 31 |  SERBIA |
12 (1) | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| 32 |  ESTONIA |
2 (1) | 6 (1) | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| 33 |  ROMANIA |
5 (1) | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Very impressive by Italy and Russia, especially because …
1) Burdisso isn’t here
2) Neither Ceccon nor Minakov seem to have tapered for this
@Braden Keith: Where did you get the information that Gose is coming straight down from altitude training? Do you maybe know what her “plans” are for the world championships?
I am not sure whether it is normal for someone of her age to already do altitude training, but it explains her improvement. I just hope this doesn’t hurt her long term development.
The group she trains with was 1-2 weeks ago in the Sierra Nevada. I’ve seen it on instagram.