Noè Ponti Rattles 50 Fly WR & Data Fall On Ultimate Day Of Swiss s/c Championships
Noè Ponti was close by of the 50 fly world document with a 21.65 prelims blast to go prime of the rankings on the Swiss s/c Championships in Uster.
Ponti set the WR of 21.32 en-route to the short-course world title final December in Budapest and he got here inside 0.33 of that within the ultimate morning session of the three-day meet.
It was the sixth-fastest time of his profession and the seventh total with Nyls Korstanje of the Netherlands having posted 21.62 in Budapest in December 2024. It elevated Ponti to the highest of the 2025 rankings forward of Ilya Kharun who clocked 21.69 on the World Cup.
Ponti returned within the afternoon to publish 21.99 as he secured his fourth title of the meet following the 50 free, 50 again and 200 free and added one other race to his programme on the European Brief Course Championships in Lublin, Poland subsequent month.
Roman Mityukov set a Swiss document of 1:50.66 within the 200 again as he lower 0.80 from his personal commonplace of 1:51.46 set again in 2023 as he added one other race in Lublin with Flavio Bucca, who’d booked his journey to Poland in prelims, second in 1:53.73. Gaia Rasmussen triumphed within the ladies’s race in 2:08.24 and was contained in the European Championship lower.
Paul Niederberger lower 5 seconds off the Swiss 800 free document he set on Saturday as he completed in 7:49.61 whereas Vanna Djokovic rewrote the nationwide 1500 commonplace in 16:19.47 as she lowered Swann Oberson’s mark that had stood since 2008.
Gian-Luca Gartmann (1:55.74) and Julien Niederberger (1:58.40) had been each contained in the QT within the 200IM with Angelina Patt persevering with her nice meet as she prolonged her programme with a 2:11.40 win within the ladies’s occasion.
Patt returned for the 4×50 medley relay the place she turned the primary Swiss girl by way of the 27sec barrier over 50 again, clocking 26.97 on leadoff to decrease the nationwide document she set on the opening day.
