2024 EINDHOVEN QUALIFICATION MEET
- Thursday, April 11th – Sunday, April 14th
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
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At the 2023 edition of the Eindhoven Qualification Meet (EQM), Marrit Steenbergen established a new Dutch national record in the women’s 200m IM and now the 24-year-old has done it again.
Racing on day 3 of the 2024 version of the Olympic qualifying competition, Steenbergen scorched a best-ever time of 2:08.86 to land atop the 200m IM podium.
Steenbergen led the race wire-to-wire, crushing the field whose next-closest competitor was that of Czech Republic’s Barbora Seemanova who touched nearly 7 seconds behind in 2:15.57.
Steenbergen’s result lowered her Dutch standard of 2:09.16 from last year, an outing that rendered the versatile ace the Netherlands’ first woman to dip under the 2:10 threshold in the 200m IM.
Comparing her 2023 performance to tonight’s Steenbergen attacked the backstroke, knocking about a second off that split.
Splits Comparison, Dutch 200 IM Records
| MARRIT STEENBERGEN, 2023 | MARRIT STEENBERGEN, 2024 | |
| 50 Butterfly | 27.98 | 28.14 |
| 50 Back | 34.34 (1:02.32) | 33.29 (1:01.43) |
| 50 Breast | 37.36 (1:39.68) | 37.47 (1:38.90) |
| 50 Free | 29.48 (2:09.16) | 29.96 (2:08.86) |
| 200 IM | 2:09.16 | 2:08.86 |
What’s especially remarkable about Steenbergen’s 200m IM performance is, as was the case last year, she had raced in the 100m free just a handful of events earlier.
Last year Steenbergen hit 53.10 but tonight she fired off a time of 52.72, the 4th-swiftest 100m free outing of her career.
Steenbergen opened in 25.67 and closed in 27.05 to come within half a second of the 52.26 national record she set en route to becoming the 100m free world champion this year in Doha.
Tonight’s performance checks in as the star’s quickest result outside a World Championships.
Marrit Steenbergen‘s Top 5 LCM 100 Freestyle Performances
- 52.26 – 2024 World Championships
- 52.53 – 2024 World Championships
- 52.71 – 2023 World Championships
- 52.72 – 2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet
- 52.82 – 2023 World Championships
Her 200m IM performance ranks her as the 25th-best performer in history as she takes over slot #8 in the season’s world rankings.
2023-2024 LCM Women 200 IM
McKEOWN
2:06.99
| 2 | Kate DOUGLASS | USA | 2:07.05 | 02/12 |
| 3 | Summer MCINTOSH | CAN | 2:07.16 | 01/13 |
| 4 | Alex WALSH | USA | 2:07.63 | 01/13 |
| 5 | Yiting YU | CHN | 2:07.75 | 09/25 |
| 6 | Torri HUSKE | USA | 2:08.47 | 04/13 |
| 7 | Sydney PICKREM | CAN | 2:08.56 | 02/12 |
| 8 | Marrit STEENBERGEN | NED | 2:08.86 | 04/13 |
| 9 | Abbie WOOD | GBR | 2:08.91 | 04/06 |
| 10 | YUI OHASHI | JPN | 2:09.17 | 03/24 |
Gotta think Marriott’s best chance at a medal is in the 100free, swimming the 200free doesn’t help her chances :/
John – You thinking of a hotel?
Autocorrct
Eh dunno about that.
Ritz Carlton will win 100 gold, Hilton and Hyatt are tough to beat.
Women’s 200 IM has gotten so fast.
So glad I have finals tickets to day 8
olympic gold favorite
In?