Noè Ponti Speeds To 50 Fly Title At Swiss Championships; Antonio Djakovic Clinches Golden Double
Noè Ponti ended 2024 with world data and world titles and on Thursday he returned to the highest of the rostrum as soon as extra with a 22.88 victory within the 50 fly on the 2025 Swiss Championships.
The 23-year-old posted discover of his intent in prelims, the place he went 22.77, 0.12 off his Swiss report of twenty-two.65 set eventually yr’s nationwide Championships, earlier than returning to the pool in Sursee to comfortably defend his title in 22.88. Robin Yeboah and Noah Ruben Retzler fought their very own battle behind Ponti with the previous taking second in 24.27 to 24.32.
Ponti’s prelims time is the quickest on this planet this yr, 0.06 contained in the 22.83 he posted in Dubai in February.
Ponti scorched his method across the worldwide circuit within the latter months of 2024. He lowered the 50 fly s/c world report on 4 events, ending with a 21.32 blast in Budapest that secured one in all three golds at short-course worlds final December.
He went on to topple Caeleb Dressel’s international 100 fly customary in 47.71, going 0.07 contained in the report of 47.78 set by the nine-time Olympic champion in November 2020 in the identical Duna Area pool. That adopted his title within the 100IM the place he set championship and Swiss data in 50.33.
All that regardless of having began navy service in early November with Ponti primarily based in Macolin within the canton of Bern for 4 weeks earlier than returning to his base on the Nationwide Coaching Centre in Tenero. He’d additionally taken six weeks away from the pool following the Olympics the place he was fourth – 0.10 off the rostrum – within the 100 fly and fifth over 200.
Antonio Djakovic emerged victorious within the 200 free following a duel with Balint Ashton. Simply 0.03 separated the pair at midway with Djakovic extending the result in 0.20 on the ultimate flip and regardless of one of the best efforts of Ashton, the 2024 European bronze medallist took the title in 1:49.12.
Ashton, of Nice Britain, was 0.07secs behind in 1:49.19 with Mattia Mauri greater than two seconds adrift in 1:51.29 because the second Swiss dwelling.
Djakovic returned round 45 minutes later for the quickest warmth of the 1500 free. Monitoring the leaders, Djakovic made his transfer with 200m to go as he went previous Swiss record-holder Julio Bernardon to return dwelling in 15:35.76 to fifteen:39.98. Paul Niederberger was third in 15:40.48.
Gian-Luca Gartmann gained the lads’s 100br in 1:02.15.
Flavio Bucca joined Gartmann, Ponti and Djakovic for the lads’s medley relay. Ponti break up 50.49 on the fly leg with Djakovic anchoring the quartet in 50.16 because the Schwimmclub Uster quartet gained in 3:38.13.
Havana Cueto Cabrera led all through to win the ladies’s 100m breaststroke in 1:09.34 forward of Rahel Haller (1:10.32) and Kay-Lyn Löhr (1:10.52).
Angelina Patt was 4.75secs behind Fanny Borer at midway within the girls’s 400IM, a deficit she had whittled all the way down to 0.04 going into the freestyle leg. Patt pulled forward and got here dwelling in 4:56.84 for victory with Borer second in 4:58.82 and Alexandra Froissart third in 4:59.28.
There have been additionally wins for Gaia Rasmussen within the 200 free (2:01.36) and Angelique Brugger within the 50 fly (27.44).
Geneve Natation 1885 gained the ladies’s medley relay in 4:14.75.
