Swimming: 6th place and Olympic ticket for Antonio Djakovic

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In a strong 3:44.22 minutes, Djakovic was more than a second behind his time set in the morning, just qualifying for the final of the top eight. With this time, the runner-up in the European Championships over 200 and 400 m crawl fell below the Olympic limit for the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. His Swiss record is 3:43.93 minutes.

Australian Samuel Short became the first world champion in title fights in Japan. The 19-year-old beat Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui, who was a year older than him, by two hundredths in 3:40.68. The bronze went to the German defending champion Lukas Märtens at the gold premiere of Short. His reserve on Djakovic was just over two seconds.

A small disappointment caused Noè Ponti a little later. The Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist over 100 m dolphin aimed for a Swiss record over half the distance, but clearly failed the project. With 23.36 seconds, de Tessin even improved his time in the semi-finals (23.13). Ponti clearly missed the advance to the final in 13th. The national record of 23.04 seconds would have been enough to qualify for the final.

Jérémy Desplanches, like Ponti an Olympic medalist, was content to step out of the pool after his first World Cup appearance in Fukuoka. The medley specialist, who took part in the 100-meter breaststroke, could not qualify for the semi-finals. In 23rd place, in 1:00.95 minutes, he was just 0.66 seconds ahead of his Swiss record, which he set two years ago at the Tokyo Olympics. Desplanches’ main race in the 200-meter individual medley starts Wednesday morning with the heats.

Marius Toscan, the fourth Swiss on Sunday, also failed in the heats in the 400-meter medley. With 4:21.24 minutes he was 17th in his only start at the World Championships, more than a second behind his best time, which he had set at the Swiss Championships in Les Vernets in March.

Ariarne Titmus from Australia and Léon Marchand from France were responsible for the first international highlights at the 20th World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka. Titmus swam the 400-meter crawl in a world record time of 3:55.38 minutes, as did Marchand in the 200-meter individual medley in 4:02.50 minutes. In his second world title over this distance, 21-year-old Marchand broke the last individual world record of American swimming legend Michael Phelps by 1.30 seconds.

Like Titmus and Marchand, the Australian women’s relay also won the $30,000 special check thanks to a world record in the 4x100m crawl. Australia was the standout country with four out of five possible gold medals on the first day of the World Cup.

(SDA)

Source : Blick