Ten athletes in pure swimming, Cheila Vieira and Maria Gonçalves in artistic swimming and more Tiago Campos, Diogo Cardoso, Angélica André and Mafalda Rosa in open water. This was the team that would be present in the European Long Pool, whose main venue was the Foro Italico, which had already hosted World Cups (1994 and 2009). This will be the national team that, at the end of the competition, will have the best presence of all time in the competition, especially at the level of pure swimming. And this Wednesday, the last day of this segment, the National Team would be represented in three almost consecutive finals after an afternoon session on the eve of a dream with three semi-finals passed in half an hour.
The half hour of affirmation of a project: Gabriel Lopes, Ana Catarina Monteiro and João Costa in the European final
Diogo Ribeiro He had been the maximum exponent of that affirmation in the transalpine capital. Despite still being a junior (17 years old), the Benfica athlete became only the third to win a medal in Europeans after Alexander Yokochi and Alexis Santos with a bronze in the 50-meter butterfly where he beat the national record twice . At the same time, he advanced to the final of the 100-meter butterfly after having set another maximum national record, finishing eighth. In the 100-meter freestyle he also set two national records, finishing in ninth position, while in the 50-meter freestyle, the last contested event, he also set a new personal and junior best in the semifinals, finishing the distance 11th. place. .
Another national record, a historic medal: Diogo Ribeiro wins bronze in the 50m butterfly at the European Championships
In the female sector, Camila Rebelo (Louzan) equaled the best result in the history of Portugal with a fifth place finish in the 200-meter backstroke, twice breaking national records in the 100-meter backstroke. Already Tamila Holub (Sp. Braga) also reached the fifth position in the final of the 1,500 free meters, where Diana Durães (Benfica) was seventh. Ana Rodrigues (ED Viana) also managed to exceed the maximum that she already had in the 50 meter breaststroke. But there was more in a delegation that also included Rafaela Azevedo (Algés) and Francisco Santos (Sporting), with Gabriel Lopes (Louzan) setting a new national maximum in the 200m breaststroke and João Costa (V. Guimarães) in the 100m. meters. back meter
So close to history: Tamila Holub finishes the 1,500m final in fifth and equals the best European ranking in history
To end, the last three mentioned above: João Costa in the 100 meter backstroke from 6:10 p.m. local time (one minus one in Portugal), Ana Catarina Monteiro (CF Vilacondense) –who achieved the best result in Tokyo at the Women’s Olympic Games, with 11th place– in the 200-meter butterfly at 18:16 and the great hope Gabriel Lopes in the 200-meter medley, with the illusion of a final with a golden key that would always be a victory considering the record for finals reached by the team.
Gabriel Lopes breaks national record in the 200 meter breaststroke
John Coast, swimming in lane 1 (outside), he was far from the fight for the medals but he had as a parallel objective the possibility of breaking the national record of 53.87 that he had done in the 100-meter backstroke heats. He was very close, with 54.01 (making the partial turn that made him dream of breaking the maximum Portuguese record that belongs to him), but he finished in a fifth position that equaled the second best national participations in 2022 of Camila Rebelo and Tamila Holub. , just behind Diogo Ribeiro’s bronze medal in the 50m butterfly. The Italian Thomas Ceccon confirmed the favoritism and won with 52.21, ahead of the Greek Apostolos Christou (52.24) and the Frenchman Yohann Ndoye Brouard (52.92). Swiss Roman Mityukov finished fourth in the final with 53.55.
João Costa is the 5th best in EUROPE ????
The Victorian swimmer finished the 100m backstroke final in fifth position. ????♂️????
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Following Ana Catarina Monteiro in the 200 meter butterfly, also with the Portuguese in the outside lane (in this case 8). In this case, due to a break in the second half of the race, the athlete fell far short of her record of 2.08.03, finishing with 2.10.79, which earned her seventh position. The Bosnian Lana Pudar, who is still a junior, won the gold medal with 2.06.81, ahead of the Danish Helena Rosendahl Bach (2.07.30) and the Italian Ilaria Cusinato (2.07.77). Britain’s Laureen Kathleen Stephens (2.98.47) and Keanna MacInnes missed the podium despite good showings in the semis.
“After that, the goal is not to go backwards.” Ana Catarina Monteiro is 11th in swimming and has the third best result in history
Finally, Gabriel Lopes. With great enthusiasm after achieving the best record in the semifinals, with great caution because the competition in an increasingly anticipated event was very strong. However, that face of concentration at the entrance to court 4 almost confirms what would happen in the final of the 200-meter medley: the conquest of the bronze medal, as happened with Alexis Santos in 2016 in London. If this was a historic edition for Portugal, it was even more so because for the first time he managed to win two medals in a single edition after Diogo Ribeiro’s bronze.
BRONZE MEDAL ????
Gabriel Lopes wins the bronze in the 200 m style at the European Swimming Championships in Rome.
João Costa was 5th in the 100m backstroke and Ana Catarina Monteiro 7th in the 200m butterfly.
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After finishing the initial butterfly route in fourth position with 25.36, Gabriel Lopes managed to make his two great specialties prevail: backstroke, where he was the best with 29.24 and went on to second place, and breaststroke, where he was second better. with 34.02 which gave him the lead in the race before the turn to the last 50m freestyle, a kind of Achilles heel but where he managed to hold the advantage to the Swiss Jeremy Desplanches in third place (34.02). Hungarian Hubert Kos won gold in 1:57.72, while Italian Alberto Razzetti won silver in 1:57.82. The Portuguese finished with 1.58.34, ahead of the Swiss swimmer who was fourth (1.58.89).
Bronze medal for Gabriel Lopes in the 200 meter test at the European Swimming Championships pic.twitter.com/PjO8FFeOTt
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Source: Observadora
