French Duo Yohann Ndoye Brouard And Mary-Ambre Moluh Kickstart Olympic Yr With Euro Meet Information
French pair Yohann Ndoye Brouard and Mary-Ambre Moluh began the yr of a house Olympics with Euro Meet data of their respective 100m backstroke races in Luxembourg.
Moluh was first up and break up 29.11/30.56 to cease the clock at 59.67, taking 0.33 from the earlier meet file of 1:00.00 held by Katinka Hosszu since January 2016.
Mary-Ambre Moluh: Photograph Courtesy: Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
The 18-year-old was adopted residence by French teammate Emma Terebo (1:00.41) and Poland’s Adela Piskorska, who clocked 1:01.65 every week after claiming the backstroke treble on the Flanders Cup.
Moluh matched her PB from the 2022 French Championships and was 0.37 exterior Pauline Mahieu’s nationwide file of 59.30, set within the semis finally yr’s World Championships.
Ndoye Brouard adopted up within the subsequent race, splitting 25.63/27.49 to dominate all through and contact in 53.12.
With that he sliced 0.68 from the Euro Meet mark of 53.80 set by world record-holder Thomas Ceccon in January 2020.
There was a 2.42secs hole to Bernhard Reitshammar in second (55.54) with Sam Greenbank – brother of Olympic and world 200 again medallist Luke – third in 56.31.
The efforts of Ndoye Brouard, Moluh and Terebo augur properly for the French staff forward of Paris 2024 – particularly given it’s solely January – with Mewen Tomac, Mahieu and Analia Pigree underlining the depth of high quality the Video games’ hosts take pleasure in in backstroke.
Euro Meet Victories For Sjöström, Le Clos And Ribeiro
Sarah Sjöström dominated the ladies’s 50 fly, the Swede the one girl inside 26secs in 25.23, 0.21 exterior her 2017 Euro Meet file of 25.02.
Teammate Sara Junevik was subsequent residence, nearly a full second adrift in 26.22, with Tessa Giele third in 26.55.
Chad Le Clos: Photograph Courtesy: Anton Geyser/SouthAfricanSportsImages
The lads’s was a more in-depth affair with 0.16 separating the highest three, headed by world silver medallist Diogo Ribeiro in 23.41 forward of Szebasztian Szabo (23.50) and Simon Bucher (23.57).
Chad Le Clos was fifth (23.62) with David Popovici eighth in 23.97, 0.23 exterior his Romanian file of 23.74.
It was Le Clos’ second race of the night after the South African had come again with a 29.89 ultimate 50 to overtake Giacomo Carina and take the contact within the 200 fly.
Carina was forward all through and held a 0.98 lead on the ultimate flip however the London 2012 champion went previous to cease the clock in 1:58.00 to 1:58.22.
There was clear water between the pair and Kevin Zhang who clocked 2:00.99 for third.
Lilou Ressencourt gained the ladies’s race in 2:11.10 forward of 2009-born Ukrainian Alina Baievych (2:12.11) who made up a deficit of 0.96 behind Laura Lahtinen on the 150 to go previous the Finn to take second in 2:12.11 to 2:12.13.
Elsewhere on the Euro Meet, Serbia’s Anja Crevar recorded the quickest girls’s 400IM of 4:43.89 with Oleksii Hrabarov of Ukraine main the lads’s in 4:23.21.
Maya Werner headed the 800 free in 8:35.48 with Leo Leverkus taking the lads’s 1500 in 15:52.91.
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