TROFEO DEI 100 ANNI/CALLIGARIS MEMORIAL
- Saturday, May 4th – Sunday, May 5th
- Polo Natatorio B. Bianchi in Trieste, Italy
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Day 2 AM Highlights
Day 2 of the Trofeo Dei 100 Anni/Calligaris Memorial in Trieste, Italy contained two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, both run as timed finals.
Hungarian Olympic icon Laszlo Cseh pulled off a dirty double of the men’s 100m fly and 400m IM in the morning, claiming gold medals in each. The 33-year-old took the 100m fly in a time of 53.74, beating out yesterday’s 50m free/50m fly double gold medalist Sebastian Sabo, by .19.
Sabo, who holds dual citizenship in Serbia and Hungary, but is representing Hungary here in Trieste, clocked 53.93 to claim runner-up in the 100m fly.
For Cseh’s 400m IM, the Hungarian national record holder clocked 4:29.01, a pedestrian time (by his standards), but solid for the veteran with just the women’s 400m IM in between his 100m fly and this final race of the morning. Cseh’s time falls in line with his in-season 2:03.88 mark that won him gold in yesterday’s 200m IM.
Also winning this morning was Davide Nardini, who put up a time of 26.66 in the men’s 50m back, while Camilla Simicich took the women’s edition of the same event in 30.16.
Marco Belotti clocked 50.99 to win the men’s 100m free, as Claudia Tarzia took the women’s 100m fly in 1:01.73.
Hungarian Zsuzsanna Jakabos was also in the water, following up her 200m IM gold from last night (2:17.77) with a morning win in the 400m IM in 4:52.54.
Can anyone name a more under appreciated swimmer than Cseh? If Phelps had grown up golfing and Lochte had been MC JEAH and the funky bunch, Cseh would have no telling how many Olympic Golds. Although there’s no denying that chasing Michael and Ryan made him a better swimmer. Would love to see him get another medal next year, has anyone won a swimming medal in five straight games? Non relay of course
I’d actually put Gary Hall, Sr. up there. He was a multi-event phenom that unfortunately shared the pool with Spitz in fly, Matthes in back, and great IMers. Made three Olympic teams in multiple events (200 back, 100/200 fly, 400 IM). Ten world records in 4 different events. He managed to get an Olympic medal WHILE TRAINING IN MED SCHOOL.
Dr. Jennifer Thompson-Cumpelnik, M.D.
12 Olympic medals, eight gold. Swam in four Olympc Games (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004).
Broke Mary Ts 100 fly WR.
14 LC Worlds medals
18 SC Worlds medals
Many-time World Champion in the 100 free and 100 fly, US relay hero.
I don’t know if anyone would underrate Jenny, she did for the women what Nathan Adrian does for the men, always ready to throw down for over a decade!
agreed – she was one of the swimmers i was watching closely back in the day …. one of the Most amazing relay swimmer with Phelps & Adrian .
She never got her individual gold. She was beaten in 1992 by a drugged Chinese swimmer who wasn’t tested (only 2nd and 4th place were oddly) and those rules were changed nine months later after a bunch of them got busted. Her best years were always between Olympics, so she never became a household name, and she isn’t often mentioned even in discussions of best American swimmers despite the fact that she won her first national title at age 14 and her last at 31 and has 12 Olympic medals (8g,3s,1b).
It’s one thing to be a sprinter at his age… but the stuff he swims – and has been swimming consistently throughout his entire carreer – is grueling. He deserves so much respect for still swimming (and being competitive in!) the 200fly and 400IM. I don’t know anyone who I’d like to get an Olympic gold medal more than him. It probably won’t happen in 2020, he’s just too old, but he must be the hardest working swimmer out there.
Cseh Is better than Lochte?
Vote up for yes and down for no
Past? Lochte. Right now? I’m a huge fan of both, but we don’t know how well Lochte is training at the moment. We’ll have to wait and see. Maybe we’ll see Lochte compete later this year.
Left it ambiguous
Lochte’s 2 individual gold and world records probably put him ahead in terms of legacy.
Head-to-head Cseh got the better of him in 2008 and Lochte’s 2 golds were not against phelps (200 back) or against weak phelps (400 im). Still though, lochte actually took phelps down head to head at a major meet.
I vote Lochte, but who knows what he’s up to now (fitness and race ready wise)
if u add Lochte’s feats in SC ( + 2 WR’s in the 200IM & 400 IM ) + all the medals he collected over the years , he is easily in front of Cseh .
Ya, I assume the question is for current Lochte, because peak Lochte is head and shoulders better.
I would say in terms of character, yes by a long shot.
Lochte at his best was much better. Both are great guys.
Did he qualify for worlds?
Yes, 100 fly, 50 fly, 200 im