2021 LEN EUROPEAN AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming: Monday, May 17th – Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
- Budapest, Hungary
- Prelims at 10:00 am local/Finals at 6:00 pm local
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Sophie Hansson obliterated her own Swedish Record in the women’s 100 breaststroke with her semifinals performance today. Hansson led the field of 16 as the only swimmer to break 1:06, roaring to a 1:05.69. The swim marked a 0.48-second drop from her previous best of 1:06.17, which stood as the Swedish Record and was only set back on April 11th of this year.
With another chance to swim even faster tomorrow, Hansson has leaped all the way up to 2nd in the world this year, behind only Lilly King, the World Record-holder. Here is the current top 5 in the world this year:
| 1 | LILLY KING |
USA | 1:05.32 | 03/27 | 2021 COMBINED INDIANASPEEDO SECTIONALS INDIANAPOLIS, USA |
| 2 | SOPHIE HANSSON |
SWE | 1:05.69 | 05/18 | 2021 LEN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS BUDAPEST, HUN |
| 3 | TATJANA SCHOENMAKER |
RSA | 1:05.74 | 04/11 | 2021 SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS GQEBERHA, SOUTH AFRICA |
| 4 | MARTINA CARRARO |
ITA | 1:05.86 | 04/02 | 2021 ITALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS RICCIONE, ITA |
| 5 | BENEDETTA PILATO |
ITA | 1:06.00 | 04/02 | 2021 ITALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS RICCIONE, ITA |
Hansson made her move against the field tonight on the 2nd 50. After getting out to a 31.06 on the first 50, which was the 3rd-fastest split in the field, Hansson swam a 34.63 on the way home.
Excellent job. Sophie.
Give Lily King a race shoot for 104
STATE-ment.
So far, that swim is one of the greatest “jaws to the floor”-moments of the meet… good for her!
Kolesnikov beat that TWICE!
As expected. That was my point. KK’s awesome.
After Kolesnikov (twice), the third “jaws to the floor” moment was Kromowidjojo’s mark of 23.97 in the final of the women’s 50 meter freestyle which incidentally was 0.01 off from a Top 25 All-Time Performance in the women’s 50 meter freestyle.
You’re missing my point again. KK and Kromo – those are all fantastic times. I’m trying to point out that if someone had said that Hansson would put up the second-fastest 100 BS swim this year, you would have been declared insane. Kromo is a WR holder in 50 freestyle (SC). Hansson has dropped two seconds off her PB in a few months. See the difference? In the case of KK, it would have been a “jaws to the floor-moment” had he NOT swum awesome.
If you ask me.
women’s 100 breast in Tokyo gonna be a barnburner
Sweden’s 4×1 medley just got more competitive as outside medal shot!
Not even close.
Masse – Pickrem – MacNeil – Oleksiak
Masse – 2017, 2019 Gold Medalist
Pickrem – 2019 Bronze Medalist (200 BR)
MacNeil – 2019 Gold Medalist
Oleksiak – 2016 Gold Medalist
Kylie Masse is pure class in the women’s 100 meter backstroke. Kylie Masse also won the gold medal in the women’s 100 meter backstroke at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
Sydney Pickrem was also won the bronze medal in the women’s 200 meter individual medley at the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships.
Maggie MacNeil has to be considered one of the favorites for the gold medal in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
Show some god damn respect to the Canadians!
He/she said “outsider” for a reason. It isn’t disrespectful to Canada to acknowledge that other teams exist and have show potential.
Please review the results from the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships:
AUS – CAN = 0.16
CAN – ITA = 2.92
CAN – CHN = 3.53
CAN – JPN = 4.56
CAN – SWE = 4.81
I would even say the Italians have to be insulted, as well.
Ha hilarious! Thankyou Dee for the support of my vague point. And thankyou SKDM for your stanch support of the Canadian women! I don’t expect either of you to recognize my comments, but I am CAN and I regularly remind other threads of the Canadian girls whenever there is the typical “US may challenge the Aussies” or “Aussies may catch the US” comments that appear to forget about the Canadians. I think the US are still as close to unbeatable with their 1st 2 legs, now adding in a Clair Curzon 56.2 to the mix etc. However if any of them are off I do believe the Canadians with the race of their lives from all 4 can at least… Read more »
The Canadian wo0men are great, but no need to denigrate the Swedish women. They are great too!
As much as I love Kylee Masse you have to remember that she only split 59 compared to Regan smith 57.57! 1.5 seconds slower and a interesting note Olivia smoliga had the second fastest leadoff of all the backstroke (from what she did in the prelims 58.79) , second to her teammate Smith
Yep… All 4 Canadians will have to be very close to their previous best times to contend for a medal against the Chinese, Italy, maybe Japan and yes even possibly Sweden!
In order to challenge the Aussies and keep the US honest, they will have to be on or better than their lifetime best splits all in the same race at the end of the meet. Lets speculate:
Bk Kylie – 58.1 best, 58.4 last week, very promising, does she have a 57 in her this summer?
Brst Kelsey Wog, 106.2 in season last winter. Rookie Olympian…a year later can she progress to a low 105 flat start, 104 relay split? Sydney looking on form and 106… Read more »
who are you Smith-King-Dahlia-Manuel. You seem to confront every thought or opinion people might have
Maybe if Coleman can manage a sub-minute back leg. But so far she hasn’t been able to. And there’s Sjöström’s recovery (from her fractured elbow) to consider. She might not be back in top shape for Tokyo.
But, yeah, the swedish medleyteam is an outsider.
That is now Sweden’s ‘weak’ leg, “if” she can do just that then at least Sweden will remain in the race.
As much as I love and respect Kylee masse I think that she will suffer the hoff syndrome/effect where she heading to the Olympics as the two-time defending world champion
And fails to win an Olympic gold. In 2008 Katie Hoff was the two-time defending world champion in both I am heading into the Olympics but ended up 3rd and the 400 IM and fourth in the 200 IM l, and in the 4×200 relay The American woman entered in as the heavy favorite/the one relay they could count on winning (Hoff, Schmitt, and coughlin were the 3 fastest America’s ever at that point) but with the slower than expected from half Schmitt/coughlin they were to far behind and… Read more »
Its possible her peak window was the tale end of 2016 Olympics thru 2019 and she is near her ceiling of 58 low. 100 back has certainly shifted from Katinka’s 58.4 win to the multiple 57s and near 57s we are seeing today. Hard to see Kylie ‘winning’ the ind 100 back, but hard to count her out as well with her consistency, and also her recent spring form with a 58.4 just last week. Hopefully she is near her wr form from 2017-18 to give her a shot at both being competitive individually and setting up the Canadian medley for a good run.