Santos Sets 50 Butterfly Record At Brazilian National Championships

The Brazilian National Championships opened today in Porto Alegre with 44 clubs and 270 swimmers attending the event which will run until Saturday December 21st. The Long course meet has two categories; the Senior Championships, which is a competition for the Daltely Guimaraes Trophy and the Open Championships.

The race for the Daltely Guimaraes Trophy involves athletes that are 20 years and older and is run during the morning session. The evening session is the Open competition where the top eight from the morning no matter what age compete for the championships.

The competition is a qualification meet for the South American Championships and is one of three qualification meets for the Pan Pacific Championships. The other two include the BHP Billiton Super Series in late January and the Maria Lenk Festival in April.

The morning’s events saw four athletes put up winning times that were faster than the Pan Pacific standards:

• Women’s 50 butterfly – Daynara de Paula – 26.67
• Men’s 50 butterfly – Nicholas Santos – 23.43
• Women’s 50 breaststroke – Beatriz Travalon – 31.98
• Men’s 50 breaststroke – Felipe Franca da Silva – 27.44

A new championship record was also set in the Women’s 4 x 100 freestyle with the SESI-SP A team winning the event in a time of 3:46.18.

Daltely Guimaraes Trophy Team Scores:

1. Pinheiros – 80 pts
2. Minas – 71 pts
3. Corinthians – 47 pts

The Open Tournament in the evening once again saw the winners of the 50 meter events record Pan Pacific qualifying standards:

• Women’s 50 butterfly – Daynara de Paula – 26.57
• Men’s 50 butterfly – Nicholas Santos – 22.95
• Women’s 50 breaststroke – Carolina Bergamaschi – 31.83
• Men’s 50 breaststroke – Felipe Franca da Silva – 27.03

Santos who won the men’s 50 butterfly by over a second also broke the championship record in the event beating his own mark of 23.10 which he posted last year. Etiene Medeiros also broke a championship record in the women’s 100 backstroke winning the event in a time of 1:01.40 breaking Fabiola Pulga Molina‘s 2007 record of 1:01.75.

Other event winners are as follows:

Senior

• Women’s 100 backstroke – Etiene Medeiros – 1:02.27
• Men’s 100 backstroke – Fernando Ernesto dos Santos – 54.68
• Women’s 800 freestyle – Poliana Okimoto – 8:47.28
• Men’s 1500 freestyle – Lucas Kanieski – 15:28.35
• Men’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay – Minas A – 3:17.57

Open

• Men’s 100 backstroke – Guilherme Guido – 54.82

*The 800 and 1500 freestyle championships are shared results between the two competitions.

Thank you to D’artagnan Dias who is helping cover the meet in Brazil