Sara Curtis claimed her fifth gold medal with a slender victory within the 100m freestyle as she held off the problem of Minna Abraham on the penultimate day of the European Junior Swimming Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Curtis added gold to her titles within the 50 free and again in addition to the ladies’s and combined 4x100m freestyle relays.
The Italian had an excellent begin and her highly effective, straight-arm stroke noticed her flip in 25.79 however within the closing 25m, Minna Abraham of Hungary ate into the deficit with each stroke and moved on to Curtis’ shoulder.
Curtis remained composed and received the contact by 0.06 in 54.22 to Abraham’s 54.28 with Grace Davison of Eire taking bronze in 55.11.
Tuncelli Dominant In Turkish 1-2; Blocksidge Completes Double
Tuncelli demolished the 1500 WJR in 14:41.89 a few days in the past and he was 0.30secs inside Lorenzo Galossi’s 800 commonplace of seven:43.37 on the 300m mark.
Kuzey Tuncelli: Photograph courtesy: European Aquatics
Whereas the prospect steadily slipped away, it was nonetheless an authoritative efficiency by the 16-year-old who got here residence in 7:48.01, a PB and a Turkish file, reducing his personal mark of seven:48.53 from the World Championships in Doha in February.
Tuncelli loved a successful margin of 8.17secs over Muhammad Yusuf Ozden who clocked 7:56.18 for a Turkish 1-2 whereas Johannes Liebmann of Germany added 800 bronze to his 1500 silver in 7:58.39.
Amelie Blocksidge additionally accomplished the gap double as she responded to the problem of Vivien Jackl to return residence in a PB of 8:30.05.
The Hungarian was second in 8:32.33 with Emma Giannelli coming from fifth on the closing flip to return via for bronze in 8:33.83.
CRs For Del Rigo Torres & Italy Males’s 4×2
Italy dominated the boys’s 4x200m freestyle all through following a 1:47.26 lead-off from Paris-bound Alessandro Ragaini.
Filippo Bertoni (1:49.36) and Gabriele Valente (1:49.05) handed over to Carlos D’Ambrosio who cut up 1:46.48 on the anchor leg because the youngest member of Staff Italia on the Olympics steered the quartet into the wall in 7:12,15.
They sliced 3.31secs from the earlier commonplace of seven:15.46. set by Hungary on the 2017 championships in Netanya, Israel.
Germany and Türkiye battled it out for the minor medals with the previous getting the contact in 7:19.85 to 7:19.99.
Sarah Dumont gained the 200 fly in 2:09.64 to decrease her nationwide file of two:09.92 set on the Canet cease of the Mare Nostrum tour in Might.
Eneli Jefimova set an Estonian file of 1:06.08 within the 100m breaststroke semifinals to take 0.10secs from her commonplace of 1:06.18 set on the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka with the European champion on the point of making her first voyage to 1:05.
Teo del Rigo Torres of Spain flew to a 50m butterfly Championship file of 23.41 within the prelims earlier than qualifying swiftest within the night.
