2024 LUXEMBOURG EURO MEET
- Friday, January 26th – Sunday, January 28th
- Centre National Sportif et Culturel d’Coque, Luxembourg
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview #1
- Paris 2024 Olympic Games Qualifying Event
- Entries/Results
- Livestream
We previewed the initially known high-profile stars headed to the 2024 Luxembourg Euro Meet this weekend, putting the spotlight on Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, South Africa’s Chad Le Clos and Portugal’s Diogo Ribeiro.
Now that the entries have been posted, there’s another wave of big names revealed to be racing in Luxembourg beginning on Friday, January 26th.
Among them is World Record holder David Popivici of Romania. The 19-year-old ace is scheduled to race the men’s 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle events on his road to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Popovici competed last month at the European Short Course Championships. The ‘Romanian Rail’ came away with a bronze in the 100m free, as his time of 46.05 placed 3rd behind winner Maxime Grousset of France (45.46) and runner-up Alessandro Miressi of Italy (45.51).
Italian veteran Luca Dotto will also be in the 50m free race in Luxembourg, accompanying Italian teammates Giacomo Carini, Simone Cerasuolo and Silvia Scalia who have joined the already-revealed Federico Poggio for the meet.
France will also have a sprinkling of talent across the 3-day affair, with Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Mary-Ambre Moluh, Emma Terebo and Lilou Ressencourt among those appearing on the entries.
Finally, a British buzz will be about the Centre National Sportif et Culturel d’Coque, with Sam Greenbank, Jamie Ingram, Theodora Taylor, Harriet Jones and Leah Schlosshan ready to make their marks.
Additional Key Entries:
Martine Damborg (DEN)
Alina Baievych (GER)
Jessica Felsner (GER)
Anita Bottazzo (ITA)
Martina Carraro (ITA)
Arianna Castiglioni (ITA)
Nina Kost (SUI)
Michelle Coleman (SWE)
Day 1 Popovici finaled in the 50fly 23.97. He was only .3 back from Le Clos. Seems like a promising start for swimming an off event
His PB is literally faster in the 50 fly (I mean Popovici’s in the 50 fly).
David is going to Doha? Aside from the USA swimmers, and the Chinese trio of super swimmers, who are the high profile swimmers skipping Doha?
Shayna Jack and Cam McEvoy are the only Australian individual medalists from last year that are going.
Arguably the top five women in the world won’t be attending.
Unless something has changed David’s coach said he would not be going to Doha but staying closer to home to train and attend his freshman year of Uni.
Basically everyone. It would be much faster to list the stars that are going than the ones that aren’t.
First male sprinter that’s washed at 19
Because he didn’t reset his own world record on an odd non-Olympic year? His times at Worlds and Euros were pretty good for someone who admittedly didn’t train hard because he was focusing on school.
D Pop swimming a 50 free is wild. Probably won’t be any faster than he goes out in his 100
Probably not, but it’s good training for his speed.
He will swim 50 fly too
not sure how swimming an obvious off event at an in season meet is wild, he’s swam it plenty of times (he’s similar to O’Callaghan in a 100/200 freestyler born in 2004 with a good backhalf way and its nothing wild when she swims it either, however if he was also doing the same insane 50 free/200back /200 fly triple she did at her most recent meet than yeah that would be wild)
He also won the 50 m at the Junior Euros in the past and regularly swims it at Nationals. I think he is also hoping to beat the Romanian NR in it soon (his PB is 22.16, Norbert Trandafir’s NR is 21.98.)
Tuneup for Doha?