2023 DANISH SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, December 14th – Sunday, December 17th
- Greve Svømmehal
- SCM (25m)
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The 2023 Danish Short Course Championships got underway today with some of the nation’s quickest competitors diving in for national titles on the heels of the European Short Course Championships.
Multi-European Junior Championships medalist Martine Damborg wasted no time making her presence known in the women’s 100m fly to kick off her campaign.
Damborg registered a winning effort of 57.35 to produce a new Danish Junior Record. Her result sliced .01 off of the 57.35 she logged last month.
Elisabeth Ebbesen snagged silver this evening in 57.60 while Karoline Barrett rounded out the podium in 57.69.
Damborg scored silver in both the LCM 50 fly (26.40) and 100 fly (58.35) in Belgrade as one of Europe’s rising stars of the discipline.
Julie Kepp Jensen got it done for gold in the women’s 50m back this evening, getting to the wall in 26.72 as the sole swimmer under the 27-second barrier.
Victoria Bierre secured silver in 27.31 and Damborg dove in once again for this event, bagging bronze in 27.32.
Jensen owns a lifetime best of 25.85 in this 50m back, a time she turned in during the prelims of the 2022 Short Course World Championships. That also represents the national record in the event. There in Melbourne, the 23-year-old ultimately placed 7th in a final time of 26.14.
The men’s 100m free saw Rasmus Nickelsen turn in the quickest time of the field in 47.51. Oliver Soegaard-Andersen was right behind in 47.64 as the only other sub-48-second swimmer. Matthias Rysgaard rounded out the podium in 48.26.
Additional Notes
- Frederik Moeller registered a time of 53.28 to take the men’s 100m IM while Ida Kragh hit 2:11.06 to top the women’s 200m IM podium.
- The men’s 200m back saw Jakob Nissen stop the clock in 1:55.31 for the gold. That marks his first-ever foray under the 1:56 barrier.
- Elias Elsgaard grabbed gold in the men’s 50m breast in 26.73, defeating European Junior champion and World Junior Championships silver medalist Jonas Gaur. Gaur settled for silver here in 27.27.
- Clara Rybak-Andersen struck gold in the women’s 100m breast in 1:05.43, narrowly missing her lifetime best of 1:05.27. That quicker outing was posted in the semi-finals at this year’s European Junior Championships. Rybak-Andersen wound up placing 6th in the final in 1:05.35 for some pretty impressive consistency.
