European Championships, Day 7 Prelims: Felix Auboeck Goes 3:48 To Head 400 Free
Felix Auboeck and Francisca Martins headed the 400 free through the seventh and closing day of prelims on the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade.
The sixth evening of finals had been twice delayed due to driving rain, thunder and lightning which resulted within the males’s 1500 free being postponed till Sunday night with the beginning of the session introduced ahead by 20 minutes.
That was in the end the athletes’ ‘selection’. The eight swimmers have been already poolside when the heavens threatened to open they usually got what amounted to an ultimatum: get in and danger being pulled out mid-race earlier than having to restart the occasion or postpone it. They selected the latter which noticed the likes of Nathan Wiffen withdraw from the 400 free on Sunday morning within the Serbian capital.
the ladies’s 400 free opened the session with Francisca Martins of Portugal reserving lane 4 in 4:14.77 the place she’ll be alongside Ajna Kesely of Hungary, the 2022 silver medallist clocking 4:14.93.
Barbora Seemanova progressed sixth in 4:16.55 as she seeks to finish the 100/200/400 treble.
Claiming the eighth and closing slot was Vanna Djakovic of Switzerland in 4:17.46.
A second Djakovic sibling certified for the lads’s closing with Antonio – three years Vanna’s senior – putting third in prelims in 3:49.99 behind Austria’s Felix Auboeck (3:48.86) and Bar Soloveychik of Israel (3:49.92).
Additionally by way of was Krzysztof Chmielewski, the Polish swimmer who got here second behind Kristof Milak within the 200 fly on Saturday.
Hungary – flying excessive on the high of the standings with eight golds amongst 22 medals – headed the ladies’s 4×1 medley prelims in 4:04.30 adopted by Poland (4:04.44) and Greece (4:06.21).
Hosts Serbia and Armenia are the reserves after 11 groups contested the prelims with Finland DQd and Nice Britain not showing.
Ukraine headed the lads’s occasion in 3:34.35 forward of Austria (3:35.13) and Hungary (3:35.73).
