2024 MARE NOSTRUM – CANET-EN-ROUSSILLON
- Saturday, May 25th & Sunday, May 26th
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- Canet, France
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Racing on day one of the first stop of the 2024 Mare Nostrum Tour, 20-year-old Anastasia Gorbenko put on a show in the women’s 200m IM event.
Contesting the final this evening, Gorbenko fired off a new lifetime best of 2:08.63 to handily take the gold.
The next-closest competitor was Shiho Matsumoto of Japan who notched 2:10.33 for silver while reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi, also of Japan, rounded out the podium in 2:12.41.
Entering this competition, Gorbenko’s career-quickest and Israeli national record stood at the 2:09.28 logged at the Monaco stop of the 2023 edition of the Mare Nostrum Tour.
Comparing those 2 outings, Gorbenko made up the most time on the front of the race this time around, with her backstroke about half a second faster than in 2023.
Split Comparison
| New Record – 2:08.63 | Old Record – 2:09.28 |
| 27.49 | 27.58 |
| 32.43 | 32.95 |
| 37.69 | 37.57 |
| 31.02 | 31.18 |
Gorbenko’s outing easily cleared the Olympic Quafliciation Time of 2:11.47 needed for Paris and inserts her into slot #8 in the season’s world rankings.
2023-2024 LCM Women 200 IM
MCINTOSH
2:06.56
| 2 | Kaylee McKEOWN | AUS | 2:06.63 | 06/10 |
| 3 | Kate DOUGLASS | USA | 2:06.79 | 06/22 |
| 4 | Alex WALSH | USA | 2:07.45 | 08/02 |
| 5 | Sydney PICKREM | CAN | 2:07.68 | 05/19 |
| 6 | Yiting YU | CHN | 2:07.75 | 09/25 |
| 7 | Torri HUSKE | USA | 2:08.47 | 04/13 |
| 8 | Anastasia GORBENKO | ISR | 2:08.55 | 05/25 |
| 9 | Marrit STEENBERGEN | NED | 2:08.86 | 04/13 |
| 10 | Abbie WOOD | GBR | 2:08.91 | 04/06 |
WOMEN’S 200 IM – FINAL
- Mare Nostrum Record – 2:08.49, Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 2017
- OQT – 2:11.47
GOLD – Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR), 2:08.63
SILVER – Shiho Matsumoto (JPN), 2:10.33
BRONZE – Yui Ohashi (JPN), 2:12.41
Israeli national record holder Anastasia Gorbenko soared to the wall first to handily take this women’s 200m IM.
After notching 2:11.02 in the morning, Gorbenko crushed a new lifetime best of 2:08.63 to not only take the gold, but clock a new Israeli standard.
Entering this competition, the 20-year-old’s PB and national record stood at the 2:09.28 from the Monte Carlo stop of last year’s Tour. Tonight’s performance destroyed that effort and fell just .14 outside of Hungarian Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu‘s longstanding Tour record of 2:08.49 from 2017.
Japan took the next 2 spots on the podium, with Shiho Matsumoto hitting 2:10.33 while reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi turned in 2:12.41.
These two women earned Olympic qualification in the event at the Japanese Olympic Trials where Ohashi got the edge over Matsumoto in 2:09.17 to the latter’s 2:09.90 effort.
Insane to believe that 2:08.5 won this event in Tokyo my god
Kaylee McKeown would have won that had she swum it.
Her time earlier in the year was the fastest 200 IM of 2021.
ya she coulda won all the IMs and prolly the 800 free, too
You mean like Regan Smith coulda won all backstroke, fly, all the IMs, and anchor 4×200?
Women’s 200IM might be the deepest and most exciting event.
Men’s 100 fly: hold my swim cap.
I will be extremely surprised if the w200 IM winner is outside the top 4 (Kaylee, Summer, Kate, Alex)
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the m100 fly winner is anyone of the 8 finalists.
The 2021 Olympic winning time may actually be slower than the time it’ll take to final this year in this event, unreal
It was unusually slow even then but the finals were in the morning.
making the final will be a bloodbath
I’m 1000% saying this just to be a contrarian but that time is much closer to Huske’s PB than Huske’s PB is to Walsh’s. Does anyone think that Gorbenko is a threat to Walsh (in, say, an international final; I know she is not American)?
Awesome swim btw – another potential finalist for Paris, love to see it.
Yes, but Huske is full of potential in the event, as people assume.
She’ll continue dropping seconds at a time until she’s going high 1:50s.
(This is how people think about swimmers that are on an upswing, like Huske.)
Lmao you are so right.
Top 10 in rankings below 2:09, what a world we live in
Probably need to swim a 2:08 to make final in Paris
This race will be the best in Paris, I think very good swims will be left out of the final.
I think douglass, mcintosh, McKeown, walsh and pickrem are finalists
but for the other 3 it is very difficult for me to choose between gorbenko, yi ting Steenbergen, wood, colbert, oashi, Franceschi, australian… many important names, for it to be the Race of the Olympics