2019 FFN GOLDEN TOUR CAMILLE MUFFAT – MARSEILLE
Last month while competing at the FFN Golden Tour Camille Muffat in Marseille, Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich became the 2nd fastest 100m breaststroker of all-time. The 24-year-old clocked a massive mark of 58.29 to rank only behind Olympic champion and world record holder Adam Peaty on the all-time rankings of the event.
Entering Marseille, Shymanovich’s personal best and Belarusian National Record in the 100m breast event stood at the 59.40 registered at the 2018 Belarus National Championships. Prior to that, his previous best was the 59.84 he put up at the 2018 European Championships in prelims. There he went on to produce a slower 1:00.14 in semi-finals to miss out of the Glasgow final.
In the Marseille heats, Shymanovich previewed things to come, crushing a new meet record mark of 58.79, already the 24th fastest performance ever.
But, Shymanovich went on to punch a mercilessly fast mark of 58.29 in the finals to take gold and further establish himself among the event’s greats.
Watch the video above, courtesy of Energy Standard, and see Shymanovich in action.
His stroke looked so smooth, and so powerful. He’ll take a bodylength off Peaty at the start – Absolute lightning to 15m.
Thank you for the article & video. Great swim – he really attacked that race!
I have to stop and think whenever I see a LCM 100 Breast time for men to figure out if it’s fast or not because of how insane Peaty’s 57.10 is…I’ve done the math…and it checks out. 58 low is pretty quick.
He’s almost within a second of Peaty. Which is crazy on a couple different fronts.