Toussaint Downs Meet Record At Day 1 Prelims In Eindhoven

2016 EINDHOVEN SWIM CUP (DUTCH CHAMPIONSHIPS)

  • Wednesday April 6th-Sunday April 10th
  • Prelims -12:00 pm local (6:00 am EDT/3:00 am PDT); Finals – 9:00 pm local (3:00 pm EDT/12:00 pm PDT)
  • Psych Sheets and Results

Kira Toussaint broke a meet record at the first session of the Dutch National Championships, known as the Eindhoven Swim Cup.

Toussaint, still representing her American collegiate team, the University of Tennessee, went 1:00.51 to take the top seed in in the women’s 100 back. That leaves Toussaint just about half a second off the Dutch national record in the event.

Reigning Olympic sprint champ Ranomi Kromowidjojo got off to a fast start, going a season-best 24.67 to lead the women’s 50 free. Kromowidjojo moves to #6 in the world for this season with that swim.

2015-2016 LCM Women 50 Free

CateAUS
CAMPBELL
04/14
23.84
2Pernille
BLOOM
DEN24.0708/13
2Ranomi
KROMOWIDJOJO
NED24.0705/22
4Simone
MANUEL
USA24.0908/13
5Aliaksandra
HERASIMENIA
BLR24.1108/13
6Francesca
HALSALL
GBR24.1308/13
7Sarah
SJOSTROM
SWE24.1701/16
8Bronte
CAMPBELL
AUS24.2404/14
9abbey
WEITZEIL
USA24.2807/02
10Madison
KENNEDY
USA24.3907/02
View Top 26»

There’s a sizable foreign contingent competing in Eindhoven as well. Most notable from that group on day 1 was Danish world record-holding breaststroker Rikke Moller Pedersen, who topped the 200 breast prelims in 2:26.74. That was a pretty relaxed morning swim, a good three seconds off her season best from a month ago.

Hungary’s Evelyn Verraszto also led an event, going 1:00.10 in the 100 fly. That leaves her just a tenth up on Austria’s Birgit Koschischek (1:00.20).

Another tight race is set up in the men’s 200 IM. Pavel Janecek is the top seed in 2:02.22, breaking the Czech record in the event. He now holds the 200 and 400 IM records nationally. But Dutch world champs team member Kyle Stok is just behind in 2:02.44.

Other top seeds out of prelims:

  • Dutch national Maarten Brzoskowski was 3:52.96 to lead the men’s 400 free over Germany’s Jacob Heidtmann and Serbia’s Velimir Stjepanovic.
  • Teimuraz Kobakhidze of Georgia led the men’s 200 fly in 2:02.94.
  • In the men’s 50 free, Jesse Puts is the top seed with a 22.37, just beating Suriname’s Renzo Tjon-A-Joe (22.40).
  • Laura van Engelen won the women’s 1500 free in 17:29.57.

In This Story

0
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

About Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

Read More »