2024 SPANISH SPRING OPEN
- February 21st – February 25th
- Sabadell, Spain
- LCM (50m)
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
Racing on night two of the 2024 Spanish Spring Open, Kylie Masse of Canada captured the gold in the women’s 200m backstroke event.
Masse stopped the clock in a time of 2:08.44 as the sole swimmer of the field to get under the 2:10 barrier.
28-year-old Masse opened in 1:02.14 and closed in 1:06.30 to top the podium in a new meet record. Her outing surpassed the previous competition standard of 2:09.60 Spain’s Africa Zamorano put on the books in 2019.
Zamorano touched in 2:10.71 for the silver in tonight’s final and Estella Nollgen rounded out the top 3 finishers in 2:10.82.
Masse also raced on a club women’s 4x100m free relay, producing a 2nd leg of 55.57. This was after the star already earned gold on night one in the 50m back, firing off a big-time outing of 27.23 to rank #2 in the world this season. Her 2back time now ranks her just outside the top 10 performers.
Additional night two winners included the Netherlands’ Kira Toussaint and Spain’s Maria Garcia tying for gold in the women’s 50m free. They both touched in 25.55 for co-champion status.
Sergio Montalban of the host nation reaped the top spot in the men’s 50m free in 22.23 this evening.
58.93 for Masse in 100m back.
Good time for Masse
I’m really excited because this is an Olympic year, the trials are a couple months away where I’m certain many best times and some outstanding swims are on tap. More importantly, looks like Paris 2024 is going to be a hotly contested affair. Few swimmers will dominate outright – there will be significant competition across the board and most likely world records will fall aplenty. Fingers crossed for a great year of competition!
So glad to see Kylie showing signs of bouncing back to her past form. She is such a classy person to go along with being a heck of an athlete.
Sort of unrelated, but can we have a prelims live recap for the Victorian Open?
They don’t do that for small Aussie meets, only trials or nationals really (and for nationals it’s often just a final recap, not prelims). I imagine we’ll probably get an article on each day but no live recaps
Do you know if the results will be on Meet Mobile?
Yep I can see them on there. Under “2024 Victorian Open LC Championships”
Thank you!
Yeah, even a finals live recap is unlikely (and then Kaylee will break another WR xd).
I wouldn’t be surprised whatsoever if Kaylee put down some pretty impressive times in her backstroke events as well as the 200IM.
Hopefully! She’s skipping the 200 back but doing 400 free and 200IM so no idea what her focus is atm.
Her schedule:
Day 1: 100 Breast, 100 Free
Day 2: 400 Free, 100 Back
Day 3: 200IM, 50 Back
The 200IM is really the only one of her proper events scheduled for her to hit a PB
Interesting that she is swimming the 400 Free. Do you think that there is a possibility that she is going to throw her hat into the 400IM at the trials? I thought I read somewhere that she really isn’t keen on adding it to her program.
Nah definitely not. 400IM directly conflicts with 100 back.
200 free – 400IM – 100 back all in same session. They really don’t want Mollie or Kaylee swimming multiple events lol.
Basically my understanding of Kaylee’s plan is:
-100 and 200 back: 100% swimming
-200IM: 95% swimming it
-400IM: 0% swimming it
Yep, I agree 3 events is enough.
There are not too many Phelps out there, maybe Summer (or Ledecky 2016) & Marchand.
2016 Hosszu was pretty impressive with 4 individual medals, so maybe it’s more common than we think.
3 golds for Kaylee in Paris definitely shouldn’t be out of the question.
Hosszu was known as Iron woman
Phelps Is the GOAT
Ledecky female GOAT
Summer future GOAT
Marchand has to prove himself first.
Kaylee I’d prefer 2-3 golds than 3 silvers & 1 bronze.
Concur. At very most, she may swim one per year ….. and most likely at a lower tier meet.
Would place the 200IM at somewhere between 75-90%; much will depend on her form/times.
Do agree that 200free is probably off her Trials schedule unless she decides to throw down a big marker in heats but I’m sceptical this will actually occur. The reality is that, whilst she could certainly throw down a 1.55 split, she is not a “gamechanger”/necessity but rather a viable contingency resource for the 4X200.