2021 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming: Monday, May 17th – Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prelims at 10:00 am local/Finals at 6:00 pm local
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Great Britain’s Luke Greenbank downed his own hours-old national record en route to claiming the top seed in the men’s 200m backstroke tonight in Budapest.
While competing in the semi-finals of the 2back on this night 5 of the European Championships, 23-year-old Greenbank posted the fastest time of his career in 1:54.43. That shaved another .24 off of the 1:54.67 national standard he already produced this morning.
Where his previous swim consisted of splits of 27.02/28.61/29.50/29.54, tonight’s effort was completed via 27.00/28.58/29.58/29.27, showing how the man shaved just a little here and there to check-in with the new mark with the final yet to go.
As we reported this morning with his first record-breaking swim, Loughborough’s Greenbank continues to show big drops in the 200 backstroke – after no drops from a 1:56.89 in 2015 as a 17-year old until 2019, he’s now improved over 2 seconds in the last 2 years. His swim now ranks him 4th in the world this season. He also won a bronze medal in the event at the 2019 World Championships.
Greenbank now ranks as the #2 swimmer in the world this season, sitting only behind Russian world champion Evgeny Rylov.
2020-2021 LCM Men 200 Back
Rylov
1:53.23
| 2 | Ryan Murphy | USA | 1:54.15 | 07/30 |
| 3 | Mitch Larkin | AUS | 1:54.38 | 04/16 |
| 4 | Luke Greenbank | GBR | 1:54.43 | 05/22 |
| 5 | Bryce Mefford | USA | 1:54.79 | 06/18 |
Unless I’m reading the results incorrectly, I think that actually puts him at #3 in the world, .05 behind Larkin.