Jennie Johansson broke her second Meet Record of the meet on the second-to-last day of the 2013 Swedish Championships in Halmstad. She swam a time of 1:07.13 in the 1oo meter breaststroke, which took down the 1:07.27 done by Emma Igelstrom in 2002.
This was not a new National Record, like Johansson did in the 50 meter race earlier in the day, but is still arguably an equally-relevant record. When Igelstrom did that swim so long ago, it was the 4th-best time in history and broke the European Record by half-a-second.
Johansson is having the best season of her career, though even without Rebecca Soni it still remains a tall task for her to medal in either sprint breaststroke event.
Joline Hostman took 2nd in the 100 breaststroke in 1:08.48, and Rebecca Ejdervik was 3rd in 1:09.67. The new player in this group is 16-year old Jessica Bilquist, who was 4th in 1:10.01. She turns 17 this year, and has already with this result knocked three seconds off of her lifetime best in 2013, which goes on top of a five-second drop in 2012.
Sarah Sjostrom added her 4th win in as many days, and this one might have been the best of the bunch. She was a 25.83 in the 50 fly, which is a season-best time for her and pushes her up to 4th in the world. That time would have placed 3rd in the 50 freestyle race, and won by a full second ahead of Rebecka Palm who was 2nd in 26.80.
Other wins on the day included 16-year old Louise Hansson in the 400 free with a 4:17.88. She’s had a very good meet all week long, but went without an individual victory until now. She added a relay title on Saturday by anchoring her Helsingborgs squad with a 55.3 to the win in 4:12.9. Sjostrom’s Sodertorns squad was only 5th as she split 56.9.
Winners on the men’s side of the pool included Mattias Carlsson, who’s been swimming well, with a 2:01.69 in the men’s 200 backstroke. He beat Simon Sjodin, who was 2nd in 2:02.07.
Three men were under 55 seconds in the 100 fly final, with Jacob Thulin winning in 54.51, followed by teenager Oscar Ekstrom who was 54.78 for 2nd.
And finally, 30-year old veteran Peter Stymne won the men’s 50 free in 23.13. He beat 32-year old Stefan Nystrand (23.23). After making his 4th Olympic appearance in 2012 (and swimming very well), Nystrand seems to be relaxing a bit this year – that time was actually a season-best for her.
By the way, there is also a webcast available on Swedish Nationals:
http://www.svtplay.se/video/1314620/sm-veckan-sommar
Swimming begins 4:00 p.m. Swedish time (UTC/GMT +2 hours). At least Women’s 100m free should be noteworthy which is the third final.
Thank YOU!
am watching it.
I wished Open De France had live webcast, especially when they have many international swimmers.
Stop dreaming!
And in between the swimming, there were “trupp gymnastics” and a looooongggg interview with a women in wheel chair with a cup.
In the prelims today,
Magnussen 21.91, Cielo 22.08, Manadou 22.44
Final will be much closer.
Boyle swam 4:08.65
Boyle is fast becoming the dark horse in Barcelona.
That’s good. James Magnussen’s vast superiority in 100m free was embarrassing. If Magnussen smash the 50m field similarly, I resort to my right to modify my picks in 50m free.
Okay, Muffat took it easily in 400m free. A very interesting duel between Muffat and Boyle is on the way. And Muffat seems to be also in 100m free final with Steffen and Brandt.
What was her time?
Have you read the article? Her time is in the first lines!
Swedish is easy, you just speak Danish with a hot potato in your mouth… or was that the other way around? Sorry just a little Scandinavian joke 🙂
And Dutch is even easier, all you have to do is speak any language, with water in your mouth and throat.
DanishSwimFan, it’s the other way around. 🙂
Sjöström’s 50m fly. Scroll down a little bit, it’s the small looking video on the right side (Sjöström tog hem finalen). The first video is her interview. It’s noteworthy that Sjöström doesn’t swim 50m fly in Barcelona as she preferred 100m free over it because it is a little bit more “queen event” than 50m fly. Hahah.
http://www.svt.se/sport/fjarde-guldet-for-sjostrom
And Jennie Johansson’s 100m breast:
http://www.svt.se/sport/nytt-guld-for-jennie-efter-ny-kanontid
Thank you for the interview but my Swedish is nonexistent.
Try Rosetta Stone! It works great! 😉
🙂 I somewhat assumed many don’t know Swedish so I tried to highlight most interesting piece of news.