2023 DUTCH LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, June 8th – Sunday, June 11th
- Amersfoort, the Netherlands
- LCM (50m)
- World Championships Qualifier
- Live Results
- Livestream
The 2023 Dutch Long Course Championships kicked off from Amersfoort today, with the 4-day competition representing a last chance for swimmers to qualify for this summer’s World Championships.
Although she’s already qualified for Fukuoka, Tes Schouten did anything but rest on her laurels. The 22-year-old lowered her own Dutch national record en route to taking the 200m breaststroke tonight.
Schouten hit the wall in a mark of 2:21.71 to top the 2breast podium. Her time not only grabbed the gold but it beat the field by nearly 10 seconds.
Schouten opened in 1:07.94 and brought it home in 1:13.77 to put up the fastest time of her career and her first-ever outing under the 2:22 barrier.
Entering this meet, Schouten held the Dutch standard with her lifetime quickest 2:22.21 from the Eindhoven Qualification Meet this past April. Splits from that prior effort checked in at 1:08.34/1:13.87, showing how Schouten attacked her swim on the front half this time around.
Schouten’s new 2:21.71 national record keeps her ranked #2 in the world, sitting behind the newly-minted World Record holder Evgenia Chikunova‘s 2:17.55.
2022-2023 LCM Women 200 Breast
Chikunova
2:17.55 WR
| 2 | Tatjana Schoenmaker | RSA | 2:20.80 | 07/28 |
| 3 | Lilly King | USA | 2:20.95 | 06/28 |
| 4 | Kate Douglass | USA | 2:21.22 | 06/28 |
| 5 | Tes Schouten | NED | 2:21.63 | 07/28 |
The 200 Breast is an interesting one. Lots of really fast swimmers, but the final last year was not that fast with a 2:22 mid winning gold. This time from Schouten could potentially win gold this year but potentially could also be off the podium if all the major players swim their best in finals.
Women’s 200 breast is stacked rn
A definite medal contender in Fukuoka, and nice to see her progressing again – She was flying before covid hit (1.06 aged 18) but hadn’t pushed on post covid, until last autumn. Congrats.
Marrit Steenbergen’s swim today makes her a real sleeper in the 200 individual medley too.
We all know her freestyle is on fire, but she has always had reliable breast (37.3 split on her recent PB) and fly (consistently 27s) legs – But now she has developed a really good backstroke with her PB (1.00.50) today. Her PB before 2023 was 1.03, and her backstroke leg on her IM PB (2.09.1) was 34.3… She is yet another 2.07 candidate imo.
The women’s 200IM is definitely getting more competitive as more candidates continue to show improvement. It bodes well for the worlds and Paris in 2024.
There’s gonna be no room for taking it easy in the semis going forward.
Marrit swam a 2:10.88 today to go along with her quick 100 free. Very impressive.
From nearly 5 sec from the No. 1 time of this season? It’s incredible.
Are there any other events with similar differences?
The women’s 400IM. Almost a six second difference currently between SM 4:25.87 to KM and KG 4:31.
Perhaps the biggest lottery now is in this event, i think (behind the top 1-2).
Well the 400IM is a much longer race in terms of time & distance but yeah…
She’s really put herself into contention for medals in both breaststrokes come World Championships. I could see a 1:05 low incoming this week for her in the 100 having been 1:05.7 in April and consistently posting 1:05high-1:06low since.