2024 JOSE FINKEL TROPHY
- August 12th – August 17th
- Jurerê Sport Clube, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- SCM (25m)
- Entries
- Results
- Livestream
On the heels of the 2024 Olympic Games, this year’s edition of the annual Jose Finkel Trophy got underway this week from Brazil.
Taking place in Santa Catarina for the first time in 15 years, several key swimmers from Paris are scheduled to race this week including Guilherme Costa, Gui Caribe, Nicolas Albiero, Maria Fernanda Costa and Beatriz Dizotti.
The competition is being conducted in short course meters and offers a qualification opportunity for this year’s Short Course World Championships slated for Budapest in December.
During the very first event of the meet, 21-year-old Costa fired off a new South American record in the women’s 400m freestyle.
Costa stopped the clock at a time of 3:59.33 to beat the field by over 10 seconds en route to gold.
Settling for silver was Leticia Romao who touched in 4:09.03 followed by Maria Heitmann who collected bronze in 4:06.64.
As for Costa, her day one performance surpassed the previous South American record of 4:03.45 Heitmann put on the books in 2022. Her performance at this competition easily cleared the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut of 4:06.95 needed to qualify for Budapest.
Costa raced in this event in Paris, placing 7th overall in a time of 4:03.53 after producing a slightly quicker mark of 4:03.47 in the heats.
Two men were able to dip under the ‘A’ cut needed for Budapest in their edition of the 400m free.
Guilherme Costa led the charge, producing a winning effort of 3:39.80. That fell within striking distance of Tokyo Olympic medalist Fernando Scheffer‘s Brazilian national record of 3:39.10 put up at the 2018 Short Course World Championships.
Eduardo Moraes also made the grade, hitting the wall in 3:41.92 while Joao Campos rounded out the podium in 3:44.63. Scheffer settled for 4th in 3:45.08.
25-year-old Costa established a new South American Record in the LCM edition of the 400m free while competing in Paris. His lifetime best of 3:42.76 rendered him the 4th place finisher.
Kayky Mota, another Paris Olympian, dove in for the men’s 100m butterfly event where he roared to the wall in a time of 50.46.
Opening in 23.59 and closing in 26.87, Mota represented the sole swimmer to dip under the ‘A’ cut. Caribe was just under half a second behind in 50.84 and Albiero bagged bronze in 51.04.
Finally, the women’s 200m breast saw Gabrielle Da Silva put up a solid swim of 2:22.42 to get under the ‘A’ standard. That scored a new Brazilian national record, erasing the former result of 2:22.56 from Gabrielle Assis from nearly 2 years ago.
Da Silva got to the wall nearly 3 seconds ahead of the pack, with Bruna Leme the next to touch in 2:25.21. Agatha Amaral was the bronze medalist in 2:29.24.
Additional Winners
- Giulia Carvalho fell short of the ‘A’ cut of 57.40 needed for Budapest, turning in a time of 57.94 (27.68/30.26) as the top women’s 100m butterfly performer.
- The men’s 200m breast saw Guilherme Camossato hit a time of 2:06.25, just painstakingly .02 shy of the time needed for the A standard.
