David Popovici Fires Off 21.83 Romanian 50 Free File At Nationwide Championships; Robert Badea Lowers 200IM Mark
David Popovici lowered the Romanian 50 free file to 21.83 on day one of many 2025 nationwide championships in Otopeni.
The Olympic 200 free champion entered the meet with a 22.16 PB en-route to gold on the 2022 European Junior Championships. He lowered that to 22.14 in prelims earlier than taking down Norbert Trafandir’s earlier commonplace of 21.98 that had stood because the 2013 worlds in Barcelona.
David Popovici: Photograph Courtesy: Deepbluemedia
It was throughout the qualification commonplace of twenty-two.05 for the World Championships in Singapore, three years after successful double gold in Budapest.
Popovici posted the one sub-22 time of the sector with Patrick Dinu second in 22.40 and Daniel Alexandru Nicusan third in 22.99.
Irina Ana Preda gained the ladies’s equal in 26.06.
Robert Badea was additionally on record-breaking type within the 200IM as he grew to become the primary Romanian inside 2mins. The 17-year-old set the earlier file of two:00.05 en-route to gold ultimately yr’s European Juniors in Vilnius, Lithuania, the place he gained the medley double. On Wednesday, he went 1:59.95 and now owns the three-fastest occasions in Romanian historical past.
Matei-Cristian State was second in 2:02.39 with Mihai Gergely third residence in 2:04.36.
European junior champion Daria Mariuca Silisteanu gained the ladies’s 100 again in 1:00.89 forward of Aissia Claudia Prisecariu second in 1:01.60.
Denis Popescu posted 54.72 to assert the lads’s title with Alexandru Constantinescu (55.17) and Tudor Andrei Iordache (55.73) claiming the runners-up spots.
Andrei Theodor Proca gained the lads’s 800 free in 8:01.53 with Diana Gabriela Stiger the one lady inside 9mins en-route to the title in 8:49.79.
A Clubul Sportiv al Armatei Steaua Bucuresti quartet of Vlad Stefan Stancu, Badea, Rebecca Aimee Diaconescu and Maysa Ratiu headed the blended 4×1 free relay in 3:36.43.
