FLASH! Noè Ponti Crushes 50m Butterfly S/C World Document
Noè Ponti lowered the 50m butterfly short-course world file to 21.67 in prelims on day three of the World Cup in Shanghai.
The Swiss reached the flip in 9.95 secs earlier than a blistering 11.72sec second 25 propelled him into the wall in a brand new world normal.
He took 0.08secs off the 21.75 file held collectively by Nicholas Santos of Brazil and Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary.
Ponti additionally shaved 0.12 off his private better of 21.79 set en-route to gold on the 2023 European Quick-Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania.
It follows the 23-year-old’s European file of 48.40 within the 100m butterfly on the opening night time of the World Cup 2024 tour making it the third continental normal of the meet thus far following Leon Marchand’s 200IM mark of 1:50.30 on Saturday.
Nyls Korstanje turned the primary Netherlands swimmer to go inside 22secs in 21.96 as he certified second for Sunday’s last.
Ponti was thrilled, saying: “What can I say? World file (within the) 50 fly within the morning, first competitors of the season.
“I didn’t count on it, and I couldn’t be happier. After seeing how briskly I swam the 100 fly and the 100 IM, I knew that I might get very near the world file, however breaking it, you by no means know.
“I’m comfortable that I did it this morning, so now I don’t have to consider it once more. The final time I swam this occasion was in April, a 21.9.
“Final yr on the Europeans I missed the world file by .04 of a second.
“I’m going to consider one leg at a time, we don’t know what’s going to occur in Seoul and Singapore.”
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All-Time Rankings
21.67: Noè Ponti, World Cup Shanghai, 20 October 2024
=21.78: Szebasztian Szabo, European S/C Swimming Championships, 6 November 2021
=21.78: Nicholas Santos, World Cup Budapest, 6 October 2018
21.80: Steffen Deibler, World Cup, November 2009
21.87: Roland Schoeman, World Cup, November 2009
