EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017
- December, 13th to 17th
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- 25m course
- Entry lists
- Live timing
- Webcast (for Europe)
- Results
Though not a very surprising headline of late, Italian teen Nicolo Martinenghi has broken his umpteenth World Junior Record of the calendar year with a big swim tonight in Copenhagen.
At the Euro Short Course Championships, Martinenghi competed among Europe’s best in the 100 breast final, ultimately finishing in 7th place. His time, though, a 57.27, knocked more than three tenths off of his own World Junior record in the event, a 57.60 from the semifinals last night.
Technically, the record still belongs to Russia’s Anton Chupkov, who swam a 57.61 in December of 2015. FINA has yet to ratify/publish any new records since November 3rd, 2017, so neither of Martinenghi’s swims from this meet are officially records, yet.
Martinenghi set WJRs in the long course versions of the 50 and 100 breast this summer in Indianapolis, at the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships. This week, he broke American Michael Andrew‘s 50 breast SCM WJR, so he now holds WJRs in the 50 and 100 breast in both long and short course.
I’ll take this dude over MA every day
PS 200 breast has already been swum a couple of days ago
I mean Andrew can swim every other stroke at an elite level
just no
backstroke not at an elite level. in freestyle only the 50 is elite.
What a ridiculous thing to say.
And all because he doesn’t conform to people’s ideas of training and having to swim middle distance events to be respected.
no it’s because he only swims the 50 free at an elite level, to claim he swims all strokes at an elite level is just simply wrong. It has nothing to do with his training or event schedule it has to do with being factually correct
A 1:59 200IM and 59 100 breast isnt elite?
1:59 definitely isn’t anymore, that barely gets into semi’s at worlds or the olympics anymore and when the medalists are all between 1:54 and 1:56 it’s not even a comparison. Same with the 100 breast, a 59.8 is a great time but 58 is what is considered elite because of the number of people going 59 now. I don’t want to count peaty because his times are so far ahead of even the 2nd best on the planet. He is very good but the only event where he is among the best of the best (elite) is the 50 free