2022 Jose Finkel Trophy
- September 13-17, 2022
- Santos Dumont Aquatic Complex, Recife, BRA
- SCM (25m)
- Start Lists
- Live Results
Day four of the 2022 Jose Finkle Trophy in Recife saw a couple more names added to Brazil’s SC World Championships roster. Nicholas Santos and Fernando Scheffer have now punched their tickets to SC Worlds, which are set to take place in December in Melbourne, AUS. With the additions tonight, Brazil’s roster for SC Worlds is now five-strong through the first four days of this Jose Finkel Trophy.
Brazil put out very tough qualifying standards for SC Worlds, making their time standards the time it took to finish fifth at the 2021 SC World Champs last December.
Here are the qualifying standards for Brazil’s 2022 SC World Champs roster:
| EVENT | MEN | WOMEN |
| 50 Free | 21.07 | 23.58 |
| 100 Free | 46.20 | 51.86 |
| 200 Free | 1:42.29 | 1:53.65 |
| 400 Free | 3:38.77 | 3:59.58 |
| 800 Free | N/A | 8:14.84 |
| 1500 Free | 14:24.31 | N/A |
| 50 Back | 22.94 | 25.99 |
| 100 Back | 49.80 | 55.87 |
| 200 Back | 1:49.93 | 2:03.20 |
| 50 Breast | 26.16 | 29.79 |
| 100 Breast | 56.29 | 1:04.37 |
| 200 Breast | 2:03.48 | 2:19.77 |
| 50 Fly | 22.35 | 24.91 |
| 100 Fly | 49.59 | 56.34 |
| 200 Fly | 1:50.68 | 2:06.29 |
| 100 IM | 51.70 | 58.66 |
| 200 IM | 1:53.41 | 2:06.13 |
| 400 IM | 4:03.29 | 4:28.97 |
Nicholas Santos isn’t done yet. The 42-year-old is swimming his final meet on Brazilian soil this week, but he’s now qualified for SC Worlds, which is now set to be the final meet of his competitive career. Santos, the defending SC World Champion in the event, won the men’s 50 fly tonight in 22.24. It wasn’t Santos’ greatest swim, coming in half a second off his personal best, but he dipped under the qualifying standard of 22.35, which is what he needed to do.
Fernando Scheffer put on a show in the men’s 200 free final tonight, tearing to a new personal best of 1:41.32. Not only did Scheffer blow away the qualifying standard of 1:42.29, but he also shattered the Brazilian and South American Records in the event.
Santos and Scheffer join Leonardo Santos, Caio Pumputis, and Joao Gomes in qualifying for Brazil’s SC World Champs roster individually. Here is the roster update through the fourth day of the meet.
Brazilian SC World Champs Roster Through Day Three:
MEN
- Caio Pumputis – Men’s 200 IM
- Leonardo Santos – Men’s 200 IM
- Joao Gomes – Men’s 50 Breast
- Fernando Scheffer – Men’s 200 Free
- Nicholas Santos – Men’s 50 Fly
WOMEN
- No qualifiers yet
Santos. Legend. At SC worlds, he Should be allowed to swim one random event that takes place after the 50 fly as a send off swim.
So a men’s 50FR swimmer would have to be fast enough to qualify 7th for finals last year/get 5th overall just to make the team.. Yeesh.