2021 MARE NOSTRUM TOUR – MONACO
- Saturday, May 29th & Sunday, May 30th
- Swimming Pool Prince Albert II
- LCM (50m)
- Results
The Mare Nostrum Tour stop in Monaco finished up today at Prince Albert II Swimming Pool, with a national record biting the dust before all was said and done.
Thom de Boer of the Netherlands topped the men’s 50m freestyle skins race in a final duel with Brazilian Bruno Fratus, firing off a new Dutch mark in the process.
Hitting the wall in a time of 21.62, de Boer’s effort sliced .12 off of his own previous national standard of 21.74, a time he produced last December at the Rotterdam Qualification Meet. For his part, Fratus touched .42 later in a final time of 22.04.
De Boer knocked off the likes of Florent Manaudou, Andrii Govorov and newly-minuted European Championships gold medalist Ari Pekka Liukkonen throughout the rounds of rapid-fire racing.
At the just-completed European Championships, de Boer placed 4th overall in a time of 21.80. Had he produced this same 21.62 effort, the 29-year-old would have wound up with the silver.
With tonight’s effort in Monaco, De Boer further cements himself as a bonafide Olympic competitor with this swim, ranking #3 in the world this season in this event with Tokyo on the horizon.
2020-2021 LCM Men 50 Free
Dressel
21.04
2 | Vlad Morozov | RUS | 21.41 | 04/09 |
3 | Ben Proud | GBR | 21.42 | 04/17 |
4 | Michael Andrew | USA | 21.48 | 06/20 |
5 | Florent Manaudou | FRA | 21.53 | 07/31 |
Liukkonen’s time from euros isn’t on the top 2021 times list
Thats what you get for not doing underwaters!
He is not #3 this season? 3 people on the list are faster, plus Liukkonen’s time from Euro’s isnt even on the list.
Rankings change by the minute.
Cristhou 53,24
Metersolias 1:00:34
Anna 57,08
Theodore 54,69
Relay news
Greece went 3:45:58 on their mixed medley jumps to wildcard 3 and pushes switzerland out
https://swimswam.com/greeks-move-into-final-olympic-spot-in-400-medley-relay-by-01-over-the-irish/
That was the men medley
The result I posted were of mixed medley