2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Maria Fernanda Costa lowered her personal South American report within the 200 freestyle whereas main off the ladies’s 4×200 freestyle relay on Thursday, serving to Brazil equal its best-ever end within the occasion with a Seventh-place exhibiting in 7:52.90.
The 21-year-old Costa led off the Brazilian relay in 1:56.06, knocking a couple of tenths off her continental customary of 1:56.37 from Might. Rising Michigan sophomore Stephanie Balduccini (1:57.32), Maria Paula Heitmann (2:00.54), and Gabrielle Roncatto (1:58.98) rounded out the quartet.
Costa’s New South American Document – 1:56.06
Costa’s Outdated South American Document – 1:56.37
27.33
27.78
29.17
28.98
29.49
30.04
30.07
29.57
The Brazilians have been barely slower than prelims (7:52.81 for the No. 5 seed) in addition to their very own nationwide report of seven:52.71 from February’s World Championships, the place they positioned 4th. Aline Rodrigues swam the third leg of that relay in 1:59.73 as an alternative of Heitmann, who posted the one break up of the sphere slower than two minutes within the closing. Each Heitmann and Roncatto have been sooner throughout prelims this morning at 1:59.43 and 1:58.56, respectively.
It was South America’s first look within the girls’s 4×200 free relay closing in twenty years since Brazil positioned Seventh (8:05.29) on the Athens 2004 Olympics. The Brazilian girls’s 4×200 free relay was virtually seven seconds sooner than it was a couple of years in the past in Tokyo, the place the squad positioned tenth in 7:59.50.
“The yr I used to be born, this relay crew reached an Olympic closing and I’m very completely satisfied to have the ability to repeat this feat 20 years later,” stated Balduccini, who turns 20 in September.
“After 20 years, we put Brazil in an Olympic closing,” Roncatto stated. “I actually imagine on this era, in these women. That’s what relays are. We have been within the closing and we have to have fun that. We’re very constant and we are going to imagine on this relay.”
