Two really fast swims kicked off the second day in Kazan as Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov, in the 50m back, and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, in the 50m free, both cracked the respective Championship Records while clinching their first title here. Russia got a second gold soon as Anastasia Kiripchnikova won the 800m free by a mile. Hungary’s Szebasztian Szabo claimed a stunning victory in the 100m fly while Italy’s Michele Lamberti, son of former great Giorgio, amazed many by taking his second silver of the day in this event and soon he was part of Italy’s golden medley relay team which smashed the world record.
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Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom is getting
back on the usual track: after her horrible injury last winter, she regained
some of her old form for the Olympics, but she was clearly off her top speed in
Tokyo. In Kazan, she had showed some gears already on the opening day and in
the final she really geared up to snatch a clear win and set a new CR (23.12).
Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick wasn’t as close as she might have wanted to be
(trailed by 0.37 at the wall) but her silver was never endangered by bronze
medallist Russian Maria Kameneva.
Next came another CR swim, Kliment
Kolesnikov delivered the first individual title for the hosts in the men’s 50m
back (clocked 22.47). Record-breaking is something Kolesnikov does routinely
especially in this event though this time it was even more surprising that
Italy’s Michele Lamberti was pretty close to him, only 0.18sec separated them
at the end – and the Italian managed to out-touch Romania’s RobertAndrei Glinta
by 0.09.
The son of the fantastic freestyle
swimmer, world and European champion and world record-holder Giorgio Lamberti
was back in action a bit later and this time he was even more stunning as he
managed to grab another silver in the 100m fly, in less than an hour.
In this race there were other news
too: top qualifier Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas of Norway had to withdraw from the final
due to illness – which seemed to have cleared the path in front of Olympic
champion Kristof Milak of Hungary. But it was compatriot Szebasztian Szabo,
fresh from finishing atop in the 50m free semis, who upset the others and
clinched the gold in an extremely tight finish. Milak, still at the beginning
of his short-course mission, missed the podium by a fingernail behind Poland’s
Jakub Majerski – interestingly enough, his long-course European Record clocked
at the Olympics, 49.68, was the exact winning time of Szabo. At the same time,
Zenimoto Hvas must have been in pain to watch the final from home as his SF
time (49.22) would have granted him an easy win.
While on the first day the Italians continued
where they stopped at the Olympics – collecting silvers and bronzes in big
numbers but no gold –, the second day brought the top finishes for them. First
it was Martina Carraro whose homecoming leg remained unmatched in the women’s
100m breast. Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova launched a fiery finish too and
managed to catch up with Eleni Jevimova at the wall – she turned 7th, the
Estonian was 1st at the halfway mark, at the end they both got silver to
produce a second tie for silver here in Kazan.
Anastasia Kirpichnikova landed
Russia’s second title of the day as she led all the way in the women’s 800m
free, gained almost 6sec on Italy’s long-course queen Simona Quadarella and
almost bettered the CR, untouched since 2008. Isabel Gose was just 0.06sec off
of the Italian’s pace so the German earned her first individual senior medal in
the same pool where her career really kicked off two years ago at the junior
Europeans.
At the and it became a really happy
birthday for Michele Lamberti, who returned for a third swim, this time for the
lead-off leg in the medley relay. Now the 18-year-old managed to get even
closer to Kolesnikov, held on for a 0.04 gap and his team-mates took care of
the rest. They managed to out-pace the Russians in all three of the remaining
legs and not only earned a comfortable 0.65sec win but also downed the world
record by 0.30sec. The old mark of the Russians lived for four years. Behind
the two favourites, a fierce duel went for the bronze between the Netherlands
and Turkey – the Dutch managed to out-touch their rivals at the very end but
the Turks were done anyway as their butterflier’s –0.05sec takeover led to
their disqualification.
For schedule, entry lists, start
lists and results, visit http://kazan2021.microplustiming.com/indexKazan2021_web.php
For free live streaming of the event,
visit https://aquatics.eurovisionsports.tv/home?id=J037sbwGmvZ09MGIIZxXtLeaN
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