British swimmer Benjamin Proud win European record in the short distance 50m freestyle25 meter swimming pool, with time 20:18 secondsand was two hundredths away from the best world record set by an American Caleb Dresselat the beginning of the third day Europe championship which is disputed in Otopeni (Romania).
Proud won with great authority, staying in the lead from the start until he achieved victory with a time of 20.18, eight hundredths below the European record which was in the hands of the French Florent Manaudou (20.26) since 2014.
CE (25M) – 🏊♂️ 50M FREE NAGE
🥇 Benjamin Proud 🇬🇧 20.18 ER CR
🥈 Florent Manaudou 🇫🇷 20.74
🥈 Sebastian Szabo 🇭🇺 20.74
7. Maxim Grusset 🇫🇷 21.08 #LENOtopeni2023 #Swimmingpic.twitter.com/VD9OgjgjYY— MISTER CARTER (@NelsonCarterJr) December 7, 2023
Exactly Manodu was second and took silver in the final with a score of 20.74, at the same time that the Hungarian received Sebastian Szabo.
The result achieved by Proud is second European record of the tournament after what the Swiss achieved Noe Ponti in the 100 m butterfly with a time of 48.47.
The 22-year-old swimmer lowered the Russian’s record by a hundredth. Evgeniy Korotishkin since November 2009 in Berlin.
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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