Goodbye, but goodbye, to the last record that remained Mireia Belmonte. Again Summer McIntosh again that 18-year-old Canadian teenager, stabbed the Spanish woman. Without killing her, because, although surpassed, Mireia’s exploits remain in memory and have their place in history. McIntosh, three golds and three records, swam the final of the 400 medley in 4:15.48, a wild cut from Belmonte’s numbers (4:18.94). There is nothing more to talk about, among other reasons because we run out of words. Thanks, Summer. Thank you, Mireia.
On the fifth day of the Short Course Swimming World Cup, under the astonished but already accustomed eyes of a proud Budapest, with systematic, almost monotonous routine, world records continued to fall. In the morning series of the 50 free, Jordan Crooksfrom the Cayman Islands, lowered the record to 20.08. He left behind the 20.16 of Caleb Dressel. In the afternoon semi-finals, he gave another blow to the mark and left it at… 19.90! Going under 20 seconds in 50 meters is, in principle, a biological impossibility. But the impossible turned out to be real.
Dressel, returning to him, had, wherever he was, a bad day. In the final of the 100 butterfly, Noah Ponti stripped him of the last record that belonged to him. He swam in 47.71, below the 47.78 of good old Caeleb. His third gold is turning the Swiss into Mr. Budapest.
Miss Budapest, equivalent to Miss World, is Gretchen Walsh. He dominated the 100 butterfly in 52.71. It is the third time that he has beaten the top of the test. He has done it every time he took the plunge: in the series, in the semifinals and in the final. But, a few minutes later, in the semifinals, he left the 50m record free at 22.87. Ranomi Kromowidjojothe previous holder (22.93) gave on site he took over with a radiant smile. Pure sportsmanship. Walsh broke his ninth record, eighth individual record, and won his sixth gold. It is being made of that, gold, at $25,000 per record.
The waters, exhausted, calmed down when the Russian Their Borodina neutral athlete, won the 400 medley with a good mark, perhaps more, of 3:56.83. But without really threatening the 3:54.81 of Daiya Seto. Nor did the foam rise with the 800 (free), awarded to Zalan Sarkany (7:30.56), a local hero. Third medal for Hungary and first gold.
The day closed with the mixed 4×100 medley relay and the victory of NAB (that is, the Russians). Spain, with Carmen Weiler, Carles Coll, Mario Mollá y Maria Daza He had established a new national record in the morning (3:36.78). In the final, seventh, she lowered it again (3:35.52). It was Coll’s 14th Spanish record in just over a month: five in our Championship and nine in Budapest.
As for world records, there are 24. How many will be added on the last day?