The Netherlands kicked off the party in style in Kazan by claiming an individual and a relay gold on the opening day. The first title went to Turkey’s Victoria Gunes in the women’s 400m IM, she won a thriller by 0.03sec. Host Russia also clinched its first win, while Italy earned four medals in the evening.
Flash Quotes – here http://www.len.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LEN_Flash_KZN21_Day1.pdf
The meet couldn’t have been started
in any more thrilling way: the medallists of the women’s 400m IM were separated
by 0.02sec with a shared silver – it was an amazing finish in anybody’s
language.
Turkey’s Viktoria Gunes, after going
through some ups but mostly downs since 2015 when she had seemed to make a
breakthrough at the junior Worlds in Singapore, managed to pull away over her
beloved breaststroke leg and she was well set to claim the title. However,
Serbia’s Anja Crevar and Italy’s Sara Franceschi launched a huge finish and
they really closed the gap but the touch favoured Gunes while the chasers were
tied for the silver. An interesting fact: favourite Zsuzsanna Jakabos faded in
the second half, finished 5th – but the Hungarian’s family had still something
to celebrate: his coach and husband Ivan Petrov’s twin brother, Arpad Petrov
coaches Gunes who swims now in the same pool in Gyor (HUN). It was the first
win at senior level for Gunes, she had silvers in the breast events in Netanya
2015.
The first men’s final offered similar
thrills and at the end Netherlands’ Luc Kroon’s managed to pass Italy’s Matteo
Ciampi who was leading for most of the race. Kroon gained half a second on his
rival while Marco di Tullio arrived in time to give Italy a 2-3 finish. Kroon
delivered a first-ever podium for the Dutch in this event.
Russia claimed its first medal, a
gold in the women’s 4x50m free relay – they sailed away from the others and
never let their rivals have a shot at the title. Their winning margin of
0.55sec was convincing, the Dutch came second, ahead of Polish. Interestingly,
the best individual efforts occurred in the leadoff legs (no better splits were
clocked with flying starts), Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom was 0.05sec faster than
Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick – the semis of the individual race had seen something
similar which promises a brilliant final for Wednesday.
The Dutch landed another gold in the
men’s relay which ended in the same thriller the whole session began with.
Though Italy’s Lorenzo Zazzeri came up with a brilliant 20.24 split in the
third leg and gave Italy a 0.17sec lead but the clash of the veterans in the
homecoming saw Thom de Boer out-touching Marco Orsi by 0.03sec at the wall.
Russia had some fine rockets in its
line-up but Olympic champion backstroker Evgeny Rylov’s 20.99 put Kliment
Kolesnikov a bit behind before the last turnover and even Kolesnikov was the
fastest anchor he could only secure bronze for the home team. Thus, he needs to
wait a day for his first title – he already signed up for that by setting a new
Championship Record in the men’s 50m back in the semis.
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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