7th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2019
- 50-Meter Course
- Duna Arena, Budapest (Hungary)
- Pool swimming: Tuesday, August 20 – Sunday, August 25, 2019
- Meet site
- Live results
Now that the 2019 FINA World Junior Championships have come to a conclusion, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the meet stacked up against past versions. While there were more records broken in Indianapolis in 2017, the average times from the 42 events in Budapest were faster than those from Indianapolis by .15%. A noticeable difference between the two meets was the depth of the field. The average improvement in second-place times from 2017 to 2019 was .21%, while the average improvement in third-place times over the two-year period was .25%.
The distance events tended to have bigger relative drops than the sprints, and none was more evident than the 1500 free where Franko Grgic of Croatia provided the biggest relative time improvement of the meet. Grgic broke the World Junior Record and Championships Record, not to mention the Croatian National Record, going nearly 20 seconds faster in the 1500 than Andrew Abruzzo did in 2017, 14:46.09 vs 15:06.48, for a 2.25% time improvement.
The biggest percentage drop for a second-place time came in the men’s 100 back where Russia’s Nikolay Zuev went 1.01 seconds faster than Ireland’s Conor Ferguson, 53.50 to 54.51, or a change of 1.85% between 2017 and 2019. The men’s 200 fly, in which the top three finishers were only separated by .37, produced the biggest relative time drop for bronze medalists. Federico Burdisso of Italy was 1.83% faster than 2017’s third-place Antani Ivanov of Bulgaria, 1:55.39 to 1:57.54.
As for the times that held fast from 2017, Michael Andrew’s 50 back Championships Record/World Junior Record of 24.63 was 1.83% faster than the winning time from Czech Republic’s Jan Cejka this year, 24.63 to 25.08. Among silver medalists, 2017’s Alessandro Pinzuti of Italy was 1.99% faster in the 50 breast (27.19) than Canada’s Gabe Mastromatteo this year (27.73). And Michael Andrew’s bronze-medal performance in the 50 breast two years ago (27.39) was 1.61% faster than that of Great Britain’s Archie Goodburn (27.83).
In the girls’ meet, Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova had the most-improved gold-medal swim with a 2:24.03 in the 200 breast. That was a 1.13% improvement over Zoe Bartel’s winning 2:25.68 from two years ago. The 200 breast produced the biggest drops in second- and third-place times, too, with Anastasia Makarova of Russia (2:24.39) out-swimming USA’s Ella Nelson from 2017 (2:27.04) by 1.8% and Japan’s Mei Ishihara (2:24.99) going 1.65% faster than Great Britain’s Annabel Guye-Johnson (2:27.42), the 2017 bronze medalist.
Below are all the comparisons, event by event:
| EVENT | 2019 | TIME | SWIMMER | 2017 | TIME | SWIMMER | Δ% ‘19/’17 | |||
| M50fr | 1st | UKR | 0:22.13 | Vladyslav Bukhov | USA | 0:21.75 | Michael Andrew | =WJR, =CR | 1.75% | |
| 2nd | USA | 0:22.14 | David Curtiss | FRA | 0:22.25 | Maxime Grousset | -0.49% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 0:22.40 | Adam Chaney | ITA | 0:22.31 | Leonardo Deplano | 0.40% | |||
| M100fr | 1st | RUS | 0:48.73 | Andrei Minakov | RUS | 0:48.33 | Ivan Girev | CR | 0.83% | |
| 2nd | CAN | 0:49.17 | Joshua Liendo Edwards | HUN | 0:48.95 | Nándor Németh | 0.45% | |||
| 3rd | SWE | 0:49.25 | Robin Hanson | USA | 0:49.35 | Daniel Krueger | -0.20% | |||
| M200fr | 1st | USA | 1:46.97 | Luca Urlando | RUS | 1:46.40 | Ivan Girev | WJR, CR | 0.54% | |
| 2nd | SWE | 1:47.03 | Robin Hanson | HUN | 1:46.79 | Nándor Németh | 0.22% | |||
| 3rd | BRA | 1:47.39 | Murilo Sartori | AUS | 1:46.81 | Elijah Winnington | 0.54% | |||
| M400fr | 1st | HUN | 3:46.06 | Gabor Zombori | CR | USA | 3:49.19 | Andrew Abruzzo | -1.37% | |
| 2nd | AUS | 3:46.27 | Thomas Neill | HUN | 3:49.97 | Balázs Holló | -1.61% | |||
| 3rd | RUS | 3:47.36 | Aleksandr Egorov | USA | 3:50.14 | Trey Freeman III | -1.21% | |||
| M800fr | 1st | CRO | 7:45.92 | Franko Grgic | USA | 7:54.58 | Andrew Abruzzo | -1.82% | ||
| 2nd | RUS | 7:48.05 | Ilia Sibirtsev | HUN | 7:56.81 | Dávid Lakatos | -1.84% | |||
| 3rd | AUS | 7:48.65 | Thomas Neill | USA | 7:57.22 | Michael Brinegar | -1.80% | |||
| M1500fr | 1st | CRO | 14:46.09 | Franko Grgic | CR, WJR | USA | 15:06.48 | Andrew Abruzzo | -2.25% | |
| 2nd | AUS | 14:59.19 | Thomas Neill | USA | 15:09.00 | Michael Brinegar | -1.08% | |||
| 3rd | RUS | 15:05.17 | Ilia Sibirtsev | RUS | 15:09.18 | Iaroslav Potapov | -0.44% | |||
| M50bk | 1st | CZE | 0:25.08 | Jan Cejka | USA | 0:24.63 | Michael Andrew | WJR, CR | 1.83% | |
| 2nd | USA | 0:25.23 | Wyatt Davis | ESP | 0:25.30 | Hugo Gonzalez | -0.28% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 0:25.35 | Thomas Ceccon | POL | 0:25.38 | Kacper Stokowski | -0.12% | |||
| M100bk | 1st | ITA | 0:53.46 | Thomas Ceccon | CR | ESP | 0:54.27 | Hugo Gonzalez | CR | -1.49% |
| 2nd | RUS | 0:53.50 | Nikolay Zuev | IRL | 0:54.51 | Conor Ferguson | -1.85% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 0:54.14 | Wyatt Davis | ROM | 0:54.55 | Daniel Martin | -0.75% | |||
| M200bk | 1st | USA | 1:58.18 | Wyatt Davis | ESP | 1:56.69 | Hugo Gonzalez | CR | 1.28% | |
| 2nd | USA | 1:58.47 | Carson Foster | USA | 1:57.87 | Carson Foster | 0.51% | |||
| 3rd | FRA | 1:58.71 | Mewen Tomac | RUS | 1:58.72 | Nikita Tretyakov | -0.01% | |||
| M50br | 1st | RUS | 0:27.58 | Vladislav Gerasimenko | ITA | 0:27.10 | Nicolò Martinenghi | 1.77% | ||
| 2nd | CAN | 0:27.73 | Gabe Mastromatteo | ITA | 0:27.19 | Alessandro Pinzuti | 1.99% | |||
| 3rd | GBR | 0:27.83 | Archie Goodburn | USA | 0:27.39 | Michael Andrew | 1.61% | |||
| M100br | 1st | RUS | 0:59.97 | Vladislav Gerasimenko | ITA | 0:59.58 | Nicolò Martinenghi | 0.65% | ||
| 2nd | USA | 1:00.17 | Josh Matheny | USA | 1:00.08 | Reece Whitley | 0.15% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 1:00.55 | Kevin Houseman | USA | 1:00.37 | Michael Andrew | 0.30% | |||
| M200br | 1st | USA | 2:09.40 | Josh Matheny | CR | USA | 2:10.77 | Daniel Roy | -1.05% | |
| 2nd | JPN | 2:09.56 | Shoma Sato | USA | 2:10.82 | Reece Whitley | -0.96% | |||
| 3rd | JPN | 2:10.84 | Yuta Arai | AUS | 2:10.90 | Zac Stubblety-Cook | -0.05% | |||
| M50fl | 1st | ITA | 0:23.37 | Thomas Ceccon | USA | 0:23.22 | Michael Andrew | WJR, CR | 0.65% | |
| 2nd | RUS | 0:23.39 | Andrei Minakov | RUS | 0:23.53 | Andrei Minakov | -0.59% | |||
| 3rd | BUL | 0:23.48 | Josif Miladinov | HUN | 0:23.72 | Kristóf Milák | -1.01% | |||
| M100fl | 1st | RUS | 0:51.25 | Andrei Minakov | HUN | 0:51.08 | Kristóf Milák | WJR, CR | 0.33% | |
| 2nd | ITA | 0:51.83 | Federico Burisso | RUS | 0:51.16 | Egor Kuimov | 1.31% | |||
| 3rd | RUS | 0:51.90 | Egor Pavlov | RUS | 0:51.84 | Andrei Minakov | 0.12% | |||
| M200fl | 1st | USA | 1:55.02 | Luca Urlando | HUN | 1:53.87 | Kristóf Milák | WJR, CR | 1.01% | |
| 2nd | JPN | 1:55.31 | Tomoru Honda | JPN | 1:57.05 | Yuya Sakamoto | -1.49% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 1:55.39 | Federico Burisso | BUL | 1:57.54 | Antani Ivanov | -1.83% | |||
| M200im | 1st | USA | 1:58.46 | Carson Foster | GER | 1:59.03 | Johannes Hintze | WJR, CR | -0.48% | |
| 2nd | CAN | 1:59.44 | Finlay Knox | USA | 1:59.56 | Kieran Smith | -0.10% | |||
| 3rd | GRE | 1:59.62 | Apostolos Papastamos | HUN | 2:00.14 | Márton Barta | -0.43% | |||
| M400im | 1st | GRE | 4:11.93 | Apostolos Papastamos | CR, WJR | ESP | 4:14.65 | Hugo Gonzalez | CR | -1.07% |
| 2nd | RUS | 4:12.95 | Ilia Borodin | HUN | 4:15.65 | Márton Barta | -1.06% | |||
| 3rd | FRA | 4:16.37 | Leon Marchand | HUN | 4:16.78 | Balázs Holló | -0.16% | |||
| M4x100FR | 1st | USA | 3:15.80 | United States | CR, WJR | HUN | 3:17.99 | Hungary | -1.11% | |
| 2nd | RUS | 3:16.26 | Russia | POL | 3:18.53 | Poland | -1.14% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 3:16.29 | Italy | AUS | 3:18.55 | Australia | -1.14% | |||
| M4x200FR | 1st | USA | 7:08.37 | United States | CR, WJR | HUN | 7:10.95 | Hungary | WJR, CR | -0.60% |
| 2nd | RUS | 7:11.90 | Russia | USA | 7:10.96 | United States | 0.22% | |||
| 3rd | AUS | 7:15.06 | Australia | RUS | 7:11.39 | Russia | 0.85% | |||
| M4x100MR | 1st | RUS | 3:33.19 | Russia | CR, WJR | RUS | 3:36.30 | Russia | WJR, CR | -1.44% |
| 2nd | USA | 3:33.66 | United States | ITA | 3:36.44 | Italy | -1.28% | |||
| 3rd | CAN | 3:36.35 | Canada | AUS | 3:38.39 | Australia | -0.93% | |||
| W50fr | 1st | USA | 0:24.71 | Gretchen Walsh | JPN | 0:24.59 | Rikako Ikee | CR | 0.49% | |
| 2nd | USA | 0:24.75 | Maxine Parker | USA | 0:24.82 | Grace Ariola | -0.28% | |||
| 3rd | AUS | 0:24.89 | Meg Harris | JPN | 0:25.07 | Sayuki Ouchi | -0.72% | |||
| W100fr | 1st | USA | 0:53.74 | Gretchen Walsh | GBR | 0:53.88 | Freya Anderson | CR | -0.26% | |
| 2nd | USA | 0:54.54 | Torri Huske | JPN | 0:54.16 | Rikako Ikee | 0.70% | |||
| 3rd | AUS | 0:54.58 | Meg Harris | CAN | 0:54.44 | Kayla Sanchez | 0.26% | |||
| W200fr | 1st | NZL | 1:57.96 | Erika Fairweather | CAN | 1:57.08 | Taylor Ruck | CR | 0.75% | |
| 2nd | AUS | 1:58.09 | Lani Pallister | HUN | 1:57.10 | Ajna Késely | 0.85% | |||
| 3rd | CAN | 1:58.64 | Emma O’Croinin | RUS | 1:58.51 | Irina Krivonogova | 0.11% | |||
| W400fr | 1st | AUS | 4:05.42 | Lani Pallister | CR | HUN | 4:06.72 | Ajna Késely | -0.53% | |
| 2nd | CAN | 4:08.11 | Emma O’Croinin | ARG | 4:08.33 | Delfina Pignatiello | NR | -0.09% | ||
| 3rd | USA | 4:08.30 | Rachel Stege | RUS | 4:08.73 | Anastasiia Kirpichnikova | -0.17% | |||
| W800fr | 1st | AUS | 8:22.49 | Lani Pallister | ARG | 8:25.22 | Delfina Pignatiello | CR, AR | -0.54% | |
| 2nd | JPN | 8:27.24 | Miyu Namba | HUN | 8:30.62 | Ajna Késely | -0.66% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 8:28.99 | Giulia Salin | ESP | 8:30.85 | Agueda Cons Gestido | -0.36% | |||
| W1500fr | 1st | AUS | 15:58.86 | Lani Pallister | CR | ARG | 15:59.51 | Delfina Pignatiello | CR, NR | -0.07% |
| 2nd | ITA | 16:14.00 | Giulia Salin | HUN | 16:15.68 | Ajna Késely | -0.17% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 16:18.04 | Chase Travis | ESP | 16:17.84 | Agueda Cons Gestido | 0.02% | |||
| W50bk | 1st | AUS | 0:27.87 | Bronte Job | JPN | 0:27.93 | Natsumi Sakai | -0.21% | ||
| 2nd | CAN | 0:27.91 | Jade Hannah | CAN | 0:27.93 | Jade Hannah | -0.07% | |||
| 3rd | RUS | 0:27.91 | Daria Vaskina | USA | 0:28.11 | Grace Ariola | -0.71% | |||
| W100bk | 1st | CAN | 0:59.63 | Jade Hannah | USA | 0:59.11 | Regan Smith | WJR, CR | 0.88% | |
| 2nd | USA | 1:00.00 | Claire Curzan | CAN | 0:59.23 | Taylor Ruck | 1.30% | |||
| 3rd | RUS | 1:00.02 | Daria Vaskina | CAN | 0:59.62 | Jade Hannah | 0.67% | |||
| W200bk | 1st | CAN | 2:09.28 | Jade Hannah | USA | 2:07.45 | Regan Smith | WJR, CR | 1.44% | |
| 2nd | AUT | 2:10.27 | Lena Grabowski | USA | 2:09.04 | Alexandra Sumner | 0.95% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 2:10.52 | Erika Gaetani | JPN | 2:09.34 | Natsumi Sakai | 0.91% | |||
| W50br | 1st | ITA | 0:30.60 | Benedetta Pilato | USA | 0:30.78 | Emily Weiss | -0.58% | ||
| 2nd | GBR | 0:30.91 | Kayla van der Merwe | CAN | 0:30.91 | Faith Knelson | 0.00% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 0:30.92 | Kaitlyn Dobler | IRL | 0:30.97 | Mona McSharry | -0.16% | |||
| W100br | 1st | RUS | 1:06.93 | Evgeniia Chikunova | IRL | 1:07.10 | Mona McSharry | NR | -0.25% | |
| 2nd | USA | 1:06.97 | Kaitlyn Dobler | CAN | 1:07.47 | Faith Knelson | -0.74% | |||
| 3rd | GBR | 1:07.06 | Kayla van der Merwe | USA | 1:07.63 | Zoe Bartel | -0.84% | |||
| W200br | 1st | RUS | 2:24.03 | Evgeniia Chikunova | USA | 2:25.68 | Zoe Bartel | -1.13% | ||
| 2nd | RUS | 2:24.39 | Anastasia Makarova | USA | 2:27.04 | Ella Nelson | -1.80% | |||
| 3rd | JPN | 2:24.99 | Mei Ishihara | GBR | 2:27.42 | Annabel Guye-Johnson | -1.65% | |||
| W50fl | 1st | USA | 0:25.70 | Torri Huske | JPN | 0:25.46 | Rikako Ikee | WJR, CR, NR | 0.94% | |
| 2nd | BLR | 0:25.77 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | SWE | 0:26.18 | Sara Junevik | -1.57% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 0:25.81 | Claire Curzan | CAN | 0:26.22 | Rebecca Smith | -1.56% | |||
| W100fl | 1st | USA | 0:57.71 | Torri Huske | JPN | 0:57.25 | Rikako Ikee | CR | 0.80% | |
| 2nd | BLR | 0:57.98 | Anastasiya Shkurdai | CAN | 0:58.07 | Rebecca Smith | -0.15% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 0:58.37 | Claire Curzan | JPN | 0:58.60 | Suzuka Hasegawa | -0.39% | |||
| W200fl | 1st | USA | 2:08.24 | Lillie Nordmann | GBR | 2:07.74 | Emily Large | CR | 0.39% | |
| 2nd | HUN | 2:08.93 | Blanka Berecz | JPN | 2:08.29 | Suzuka Hasegawa | 0.50% | |||
| 3rd | USA | 2:09.00 | Charlotte Hook | GBR | 2:09.64 | Keanna MacInnes | -0.49% | |||
| W200im | 1st | USA | 2:11.50 | Justina Kozan | JPN | 2:12.42 | Miku Kojima | -0.69% | ||
| 2nd | ESP | 2:13.43 | Alba Vasquez Ruiz | CAN | 2:12.64 | Kayla Sanchez | 0.60% | |||
| 3rd | JPN | 2:13.52 | Mei Ishihara | FRA | 2:13.31 | Cyrielle Duhamel | 0.16% | |||
| W400im | 1st | ESP | 4:38.53 | Alba Vasquez Ruiz | JPN | 4:39.14 | Miku Kojima | -0.22% | ||
| 2nd | USA | 4:39.15 | Isabel Gormley | JPN | 4:40.99 | Anna Sasaki | -0.65% | |||
| 3rd | GBR | 4:39.35 | Michaella Glenister | SRB | 4:42.24 | Anja Crevar | -1.02% | |||
| W4x100FR | 1st | USA | 3:37.61 | United States | CAN | 3:36.19 | Canada | WJR, CR | 0.66% | |
| 2nd | AUS | 3:40.85 | Australia | USA | 3:39.69 | United States | 0.53% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 3:42.04 | Italy | JPN | 3:40.59 | Japan | 0.66% | |||
| W4x200FR | 1st | USA | 7:55.49 | United States | CAN | 7:51.47 | Canada | WJR, CR | 0.85% | |
| 2nd | AUS | 7:57.87 | Australia | RUS | 7:57.33 | Russia | 0.11% | |||
| 3rd | CAN | 8:01.14 | Canada | JPN | 8:02.09 | Japan | -0.20% | |||
| W4x100MR | 1st | USA | 3:59.13 | United States | CAN | 3:58.38 | Canada | WJR, CR | 0.31% | |
| 2nd | RUS | 4:00.30 | Russia | USA | 3:59.19 | United States | 0.46% | |||
| 3rd | CAN | 4:03.17 | Canada | JPN | 3:59.97 | Japan | 1.33% | |||
| Mxt4x100FR | 1st | USA | 3:25.92 | United States | CR, WJR | CAN | 3:26.65 | Canada | WJR, CR | -0.35% |
| 2nd | RUS | 3:27.72 | Russia | AUS | 3:28.57 | Australia | -0.41% | |||
| 3rd | ITA | 3:29.12 | Italy | RUS | 3:28.83 | Russia | 0.14% | |||
| Mxt4x100MR | 1st | USA | 3:44.84 | United States | CAN | 3:46.36 | Canada | -0.67% | ||
| 2nd | RUS | 3:48.06 | Russia | USA | 3:46.80 | United States | 0.56% | |||
| 3rd | CAN | 3:48.20 | Canada | RUS | 3:48.30 | Russia | -0.04% |
So Jade Hannah won gold in 100 back swimming 0.01s slower than she swam for bronze in 2017.
Foster 200 back too
Michael Andrew….. whatever became of him?
Really bruh…
This is the content I stalk this website for
I second that! SwimSwam rocks and the swim nerd world appreciates it!
100 backstroke: Zuev 53.59, not 53.50.
I could be wrong but wasn’t the USA men’s 4×200 free relay team DQd in 2017 eventually due to a positive drug test , so Australia won bronze then . Happened quite a few months later ?
it’s medley relay
Yea it was MR. Willenbring also got striped of his individual bronze in the 100 free and Kreuger ended up with bronze.