2017 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM
- Saturday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 11, 2017
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Live results
The big news from tonight’s session of the Stockholm Open was Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström blasting the world #1 50 free, going 23.83 for the fastest swim since Britta Steffen’s 2009 world record race. Read more about that swim, which was also a new Swedish record, here. Touching 2nd was Denmark’s Pernille Blume, the 2016 Olympic Champion, in a time of 24.15. That’s just .01 off of her world #2 time of 24.14 done at the Danish Open last week.
Meanwhile, Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu took on every single prelims event, making the A final of the 400 free, 200 back, 200 breast, and 200 IM and then touching 17th in the 50 free. Despite scratching the 50, she won the 200 back (2:12.93) and the 200 IM (2:11.87).
In the 400 free, Hosszu went 4:11.52, but it was no match for Germany’s Sarah Köhler. Winning by a considerable margin, she went 4:06.72, which almost set a new German national record. She owns that mark at 4:06.55 from Rio, and she now owns the five quickest times in this event in German history. With that time, she vaults to 3rd in the world this year behind China’s Li Bingjie and Hosszu’s countrymate Boglarka Kapas.
2016-2017 LCM WOMEN 400 FREE
LEDECKY
3.58.34
| 2 | Leah SMITH | USA | 4.01.54 | 07/23 |
| 3 | Bingjie LI | CHN | 4.02.52 | 04/10 |
| 4 | Sarah KOHLER | GER | 4.03.96 | 08/26 |
| 5 | Ariarne TITMUS | AUS | 4.04.26 | 07/23 |
Hosszu dogged the 200 breast, which was right in between the 200 back and 200 IM, finishing last in the A final at 2:47.79, likely just swimming through to push her IM right after. Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen was 2:25.59 for an easy win in that 200 breast.
Hungarian David Verrasto snagged a comfortable win in the 400 IM, going 4:10.21. He touched first by nearly five seconds.
Other winners
- Tomoe Hvas went 2:01.13 to win the men’s 200 butterfly.
- In the men’s 100 free, Quy Phuoc Hoang was the only man under 50 seconds to win at 49.96.
- Danas Rapsys popped a 54.57 to win the men’s 100 back.
Interesting to note that in her winning race at 200IM Katinka Hosszu lost to Eveln Verraszto at three legs of fly, backstroke and freestyle. But she won almost 3 sec at her weakest stroke – breaststroke. It proves one more time to me that in majority cases, I mean in overwhelming majority cases, the IM competition is not the competition of those who are stronger at any stroke, but the competition of those who are less miserable at weakest stroke.
I have a low quality video on the 23,83 on my Instagram. @human_ambition