Tom Dean Dominates 200 Free As Flanders Cup Wraps Up; Ellen Walshe Leaves Antwerp With Eight-Medal Haul
Tom Dean loved a cushty victory within the 200 free because the Flanders Swimming Cup 2024 wrapped up on Sunday in Antwerp.
The Olympic champion stopped the clock in 1:46.35 for a successful margin of three.35secs over Bathtub Efficiency Centre coaching mate Kieran Hen (1:49.70) with Canada’s Jeremy Bagshaw third in 1:49.84.
It adopted his second place over 100m on Saturday behind Jacob Whittle – who was fourth within the longer race – with the pair set to move to the World Championships in Doha subsequent month.
Dean’s Bathtub Efficiency Centre coaching mate Jacob Peters gained the 50 fly in 23.44.
Ellen Walshe: Photograph Courtesy: David Kiberd / SPORTSFILE
Adela Piskorska accomplished the backstroke treble when she gained the 100 in 1:00.72 with Maria Godden on the rostrum for the third time in second (1:02.13) and Ellen Walshe third in 1:02.48.
Walshe was second within the 200m breaststroke behind Grace Palmer with the Belgian properly clear in 2:28.92 to 2:32.01 and Niamh Coyne in third (2:32.68).
Walshe gained her eighth medal of the 2024 Flanders Cup and sixth gold with the Irish girls’s 4x100m medley relay, swimming the leg because the quartet loved a successful margin of greater than 11secs in 4:11.75.
Grace Davison was the one lady inside 26secs as she gained the 50 free in 25.95 and Kathrin Dernier gained the ladies’s 200 fly in 2:18.06.
Cornelius Jahn added the 200 again to his 50 title and 100 silver when he stopped the clock at 2:00.65, Lucas Matzerath added the 200IM in 2:07.22 to his 50/100m breaststroke double and Noah de Schryver took the 200m breaststroke in 2:15.42.
Logan Vanhuys went 15:41.58 to move the boys’s 1500 free
