Denis Petrashov on Swimming 59.2 100 Breast PB: “I didn’t taper for this meet”

2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale

Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan took the win in the 100 breast in Ft Lauderdale, recording a personal best of 59.23. The former Louisville All-American was excited with the win and the PB, especially since he was not rested for this competition. Petrashov plans to return home to Kyrgyzstan before heading to the World University Games in July for a quick tune-up before the World Championships.

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maheny
1 month ago

why does the text under the vid say he wasnt shaved if he explicitly said he was in the video

Rafael
1 month ago

Off topic
Nicholas Santos went 23,26 fly LCM Master WR (and would be under world cut)

Swimmer.thingz
Reply to  Rafael
1 month ago

LA comeback?

Khase Calisz
Reply to  Rafael
1 month ago

What if he actually won the Olympic gold medal? Who holds the record for the oldest swimmer to win Olympics gold medal?

Admin
Reply to  Khase Calisz
1 month ago

Anthony Ervin, 35 years, 76 days.

CasualSwimmer
1 month ago

Damn and I had to taper to watch the PSS

Tencor
1 month ago

Slightly on a tangent but it’s interesting that outside of Qin Haiyang’s 58.6 we once again have a bunch of male breaststrokers bunched up in 59-low. We’ll see in Singapore but not convinced this field will turn out to be meaningfully stronger than the debacle that happened in Paris.

Scotty
Reply to  Tencor
1 month ago

Yep, people were quick to blame the pool in Paris for the slow 100br final, but the reality is that the form of most of the swimmers that season was more or less what they produced in the final aside from Peaty who had Covid and Qin who had the bad sleep

lilac
Reply to  Scotty
1 month ago

how about fink differrnce from 2024 worlds to olympics

Scotty
Reply to  lilac
1 month ago

The US trials was closer to Olympics than the world’s and he went basically same time as he did in final of Olympics. Nobody was saying it was a slow pool at us trials

OldCoach
1 month ago

Taper doesn’t matter. Call it whatever you want. Swimmers wanting to compete at the highest levels will stay sharp all the time. Especially if they want to be professionals.

I get slow swims during the grind of a college season but I really think these pros can always be sharp (totally understand people like Marchand coming off long lay offs taking time to build back up.

Swimmer.thingz
Reply to  OldCoach
1 month ago

Taper is more mental than physical

Scientist
1 month ago

No one is ever tapered man. It’s crazy out there. Be safe

Lpman
Reply to  Scientist
1 month ago

I hear you! Times that athletes are doing in practice are also out of this world. Schooling’s 47.2 100 fly LCM in practice was incredible!

Scotty
1 month ago

59 low and not tapered, suddenly he has put himself in with a massive chance of gold this summer. Wouldn’t be surprised if with a taper he can drop a second at World’s

Applesandoranges
Reply to  Scotty
1 month ago

He could go 59.9 with a taper. It’s swimming.

Scotty
Reply to  Applesandoranges
1 month ago

Right, but on the balance of probabilities, most swimmers go quicker on taper

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