Europeans Done But Europeans Keep Racing: Highlights From National Clashes & More

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European-Championship waters had barely settled  before some of the continent’s swimmers were called back to the fray for domestic nationals and largely local meets such as the Coimbra event at which Tamara Holub and Victoria Kaminskaya became the 75th and 76th additions to the Portuguese Olympic team for Rio 2016, all sports, and the Bergen Swim Festival at which Japan’s Kosuke Hagino was the star turn. At Polish nationals, there was a national 200m free record of 1:46.59 from Kasper Majchrzak, while Tomasz Polewka‘s 24.72 win in the 50m backstroke also established a new standard for Poland. All of this squeezed between international moment and the Mare Nostrum tune-ups to come for some heading to Rio for the Olympic Games this August, a few seemingly on a never-ending diet of travelling and racing.

Here’s a wrap of local highlights:

Polish Nationals

Tomasz Polewka shave 0.08sec off his own Polish 50m backstroke record from a year ago when he retained the crown in 24.72. Among Polish standards established in Szczecin was a 1:46.46 from Kacper Majchrzak in the 200m freestyle: it took down the 1:46.59 set by Pawel Korzeniowski back in the last season of shiny suits in 2009. Majchrzak’s best had been the 1:46.95 he raced in the semi-finals at the European Champiosnhips in London earlier this month. Korzeniowski took second at nationals in 1:48.75.

Katarzyna Wilk cracked the 54.86 Polish 100m freestyle record she established at world titles last year with a 54.38 victory. In other finals, Dawid Szwedzki took the 400IM in 4:19.76 ahead of Jan Switkowski, on 4:19.87. Switkowski fended off solid challenge in the 200m butterfly with a 1:56.93 win just a touch outside his best effort at Europeans in London, the silver to Michal Poprawa in 1:57.54, the bronze to Damian Chrzanowski in 1:57.75. There were also wins of 21.96 for Konrad Czerniak in the 50m free; of 54 and 1:58 over 100 …

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