2023 MEETING NICE CAMILLE MUFFAT
- Wednesday, March 15th & Thursday, March 16th
- Nice, France
- LCM (50m)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
Day two of the 2023 Meeting Nice Camille Muffat wrapped up today which means there is just one stop left on the inaugural Giant Open Tour.
As revealed earlier this year, the French Swimming Federation (“FFN”) instituted its inaugural Giant Open tour, a nine-day, three-stop “tour de France” that is taking place from March 11, 2023, to March 19, 2023, featuring six days of racing in three of the Hexagon’s most iconic swim cities: Marseille, Nice, and Paris.
Multi-Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden dove in multiple times today, taking on the four rounds of the women’s 50m freestyle event.
29-year-old Sjostrom found herself at the wall first at each of the rounds, successively clocking results of 24.58, 24.40, 24.22 and 24.10.
Her final time now ranks Sjostrom #1 in the world on the season, displacing Aussie Shayna Jack who previously wore the crown with her outing of 24.26 from the New South Wales State Open Championships.
2022-2023 LCM Women 50 Free
Sjostrom
WR 23.61
| 2 | Abbey Weitzeil | USA | 24.00 | 07/01 |
| 3 | Shayna Jack | AUS | 24.01 | 07/29 |
| 4 | Yufei Zhang | CHN | 24.15 | 07/30 |
| 5 | Emma McKeon | AUS | 24.26 | 06/18 |
Hungary’s Szebasztian Szabo was another high-profile athlete in the pool tonight, contesting the men’s 100 free event. Szabo stopped the clock in a time of 48.95, just out-touching Frenchman Maxime Grousset. Grousset settled for silver in 48.97.
Russian Anastasia Kirpichnikova got on the board with gold in the women’s 800m free, with her result of 8:27.98 holding a healthy advantage over Turkish ace Merve Tuncel. Tuncel touched in 8:36.23 as tonight’s runner-up.
Dutch national record holder Tes Schouten won the women’s 200m breast, producing a time of 2:25.47 to win by over 4 seconds. Schouten has already been as quick as 2:23.67, a time she put up at December’s Rotterdam Qualification meet.
SS is ridiculously strong.
Calling it now: Sjostrom will be Olympic Champ in the 50 Free next year.
I think it’s still too early to call but this is definitely a strong possibility. Emma’s 50 win (23.81) was much less dominant than her 100 win. However, Sjostrom hasn’t been faster than Emma’s time in Tokyo since 2019 (23.78).
As always, the 50 free is the hardest to call but yeah if I had to bet right now I think I’d put my money on Sjostrom.
Would love to see Emma win back to back titles ……. but would be equally happy to see Sarah win.
This would literally make me cry with joy
To swim the fastest time of the year as her fourth swim of the session is just ridiculous
She has crazy endurance and speed.
Wonder if she wants to give 200 another try.
I don’t think she will. There are three active swimmers who have been faster than her PB in the last 18 months, plus McIntosh, Tang and Yang very close.
I think SS probably cost herself a gold in Rio by swimming the 200. If I was her I would stick to 50 free and 100 free/fly.
She’s been focused on the sprints for 6 years now, and in addition to her not enjoying the event the 200 free field has only gotten deeper since then. I don’t see it happening
Her 3rd swim was also faster than the old #1 time (24.22)
Nice
Douglass and G Walsh will beat her
G Walsh couldn’t even beat Maggie MacNeil in the 50 free
Hilarious that now you’re reaching to knock Gretchen Walsh, given the other name that was mentioned
I don’t understand your point. Douglass also swam a 50 free today and was slower than Maggie MacNeil.
You know – entirely off topic, but – as a European swim fan it’s great to see that the Aussie swim fans seem to support the European swimmers just as much as we support the Australians. My favourite swimmers outside of my home country are either from some other European country or Australia. Maybe it’s because of the US hegemony in swimming and Australia being the strongest underdog, but still, it’s fun to see.
I support everyone I like tbh. I would say that I have the least amount of favourites from USA and part of that is probably because they’re the “big dog” and because the American bias on SwimSwam irritates me, but outside that I’m pretty supportive of everyone.
In saying that, the vast majority of my favourite swimmers excluding Australia are European. The only time I’m rooting against Sarah is during ISL (come on Roar!). Obviously when she’s in direct competition with an Aussie I’d support the Aussie but even then I love seeing Sjostrom win.
I also think there is a bit of a Commonwealth comraderie so I tend to support Canada and RSA as well.
Same, only most swimmers I like usually happen to not be American (with the exception of Dressel). Also, my dislike towards the (very real) American bias extends to the general overhype that sorrounds some swimmers, which sucks because I want to be excited for swimmers like McIntosh or Popovici but the hype makes it really really difficult. It doesn’t help that it frequently comes with unfairly unfavourable comparisons with certain – and usually very accomplished – swimmers.
Totally agree.
I quite like McIntosh and Popovici but their supporters can be annoying. I said a few weeks ago that if I were McIntosh I would drop the 200 free because 5 mid distance events at one meet is too many and she probably wouldn’t medal because it’s the same session as the 400IM. I was shouted down and told she was guaranteed to win it even if she swam a 400 immediately before lol. That doesn’t make me dislike her at all, but it does make me more critical of those who blindly call her “the next Phelps” before she’s even won an Olympic medal.
As for McIntosh: to me it seems entirely impossible to swim anything in the same session as the 400IM. It is very possible she won’t swim it at the olympics if it clashes. The field is also very stacked right now, four active swimmers (Ledecky, Titmus, MOC, Haughey) have better PBs than her, even though I don’t see Ledecky going 1:53 anytime soon (but who knows, with her PB-ing all over the place right now).
Are you sure about that? Walsh’s PB is 24.47 and Douglass’s PB is 24.54. Sjostrom just beat their PBs 3 times in one day.
Hell freezes over
I mean yards converted it looks like they have a chance but keep in mind SS goes 23.0 SCM to put that into perspective Erika Brown goes 23.7 with a best time of 21.0 scy. Douglass split 22.77 at SCW assuming she is close to her current form SS is doing a 50 yard free around 20.3-6
And SS is a better LCM swimmer than SCM due to her average underwater and turns.
I don’t think it’s possible to accurately extrapolate a SCY time from a SCM (or vice verse). Those extra few meters on top the water really can make a huge difference. Simone Manuel went a 21.17 in SCY the year she swam her 23.91 PB in the big pool. Would she be slower than Erika Brown in SCM?
Even with all of her improvements as she’s focused on the sprints Sjostroms weakest aspects remain what is emphasized the most in the bath tub, as fun as it might be to wonder what her 23.1 scm (or Kromo’s 22.8) might’ve been in freedom pools, who knows…
Converters are so inaccurate. If you convert the men’s 100 back final from short course worlds, the top 4 finishers should beat the LCM WR even though none of them were close to the SCM WR.
What a stunning performance! She’s been around so long that I think sometimes we forget how incredible she is!!
She was three-hundredths off her Olympic silver medal-winning time on her 4th 50 of the day. Wow.
Nice swim
EDIT: how far apart were the rounds?? That’s insane that she got faster every single round at that speed
It’s about an hour between each round.
Time stamps from the results say about 5.5 hours between the first and 2nd swim and then 1 hour to race #3 and another hour to race #4