European Juniors: Kuzey Tuncelli, 16, Demolishes 1500 Free WJR In 14:41.89
Kuzey Tuncelli of Türkiye served discover of his Paris intentions as he went third within the 1500 free rankings with a World Junior Report of 14:41.89 on the European Junior Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The 16-year-old went by means of the primary 100m in 55.39 and was metronomic in his splits thereafter, starting from 29.33 to 30.09, earlier than unleashing a 27.43 closing 50.
With that he took 4.2secs off the earlier commonplace of 14:46.09 held by Croatian Franko Grgic since 2019 for a world and European junior report, a Championship mark and new Turkish commonplace.
He’ll now journey to the French capital for his Olympic debut behind solely Daniel Wiffen (14:34.07) and Bobby Finke (14:40.28) within the rankings.
Tuncelli retained the title he gained on the 2023 European Juniors, little greater than a fortnight after taking the crown on the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade.
High 5 Rankings
14:34.07: Daniel Wiffen, World Championships, February 2024
14:40.28: Bobby Finke, US trials, June 2024
14:41.89: Kuzey Tuncelli, European Junior Championships, July 2024
14:42.28: Florian Wellbrock, German Championships, April 2024
14:44.85: David Aubry, World Championships, February 2024
Sara Curtis gained the 50 free title to assert her fourth gold of the meet in Lithuania, a day after she set a championship report of 24.67, 0.11 exterior her Italian and European junior commonplace of 24.56 in March.
Come Thursday and the Italian took the title in 24.68 for her third successive journey to the European Junior podium following gold at Belgrade 2023 and bronze in Otopeni the earlier yr.
The 17-year-old, who will make her Olympic debut at Paris 2024 later this month, added the 50 free crown to the golds she has collected within the 50m backstroke and the ladies’s and blended 4x100m freestyle relays.
Croatian Jana Pavalin – who was fifth on the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade – clocked 24.92 for silver.
Nice Britain’s Skye Carter replicated her bronze from Belgrade 2023 in 25.24, a day after her sister Jasmine was third within the 50m breaststroke.
Robert-Andrei Badea gained the boys’s 200IM in 2:00.05, 0.10secs inside his Romanian report of two:00.15 from the nationwide championships in April.
It was Romania’s second gold in as many days following teammate Vlad-Stefan Mihalache‘s victory within the 200m butterfly on Wednesday.
Martine Damborg powered away on the second 50 to improve her 2023 silver to gold within the girls’s 100m butterfly.
The Danish swimmer took the title in 58.75 forward of Italy’s Caterina Santambrogio, who got here from sixth on the flip for silver in 59.11, with Nice Britain’s Hollie Widdows third in 59.16.
Minna Abraham anchored the Hungary girls’s 4×2 quartet to victory with a 1:57.05 closing leg for a profitable time of 8:01.11.
Italy had been second in 8:01.71 with Germany third in 8:04.60.
After three days of competitors, Italy lead the standings with 5 golds and 4 silvers forward of Hungary (three golds, three bronzes) and Lithuania with three golds.
