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Bruno Fratus Fires Off World-Leading 50 Free at Brazil Trophy

Caeleb Dressel

2019 BRAZIL TROPHY (FORMERLY MARIA LENK)

After going 21.68 in prelims, then the world’s fifth-fastest time of the year, Olympian Bruno Fratus ripped 2019’s fastest 50 freestyle in finals on the last day of the 2019 Brazil Trophy, Brazil’s national championships.

Fratus, swimming in only his second meet since undergoing the second shoulder surgery seven months ago, went 21.47 Sunday evening, winning the men’s 50 free by well over half a second. He overtakes Britain’s Ben Proud in the world rankings. Taking second place was Marcelo Chierighini in 22.05; earlier in the meet, he swam to a new South American textile record in the 100 free, going 47.68.

Fratus was sixth in the 100 free (48.95), missing out on Brazil’s 2019 FINA World Championships 4×100 relay team.

Fratus’ best 50 free time is 21.27, from the 2017 FINA World Championships. Last year at this meet, he was 21.35 twice. But outside of those three swims – 2017 Worlds, and the two a year ago – he hadn’t been under 21.50 since 2014.

2018-2019 LCM MEN 50 FREE

2Vladimir
MOROZOV
RUS21.2708/15
3Bruno
FRATUS
BRA21.3106/09
4Kristian
GKOLOMEEV
GRE21.4507/27
5Benjamin
PROUD
GBR21.4804/28
6Andrea
VERGANI
ITA21.5304/02
7Michael
ANDREW
USA21.6207/27
8Shinri
SHIOURA
JPN21.6704/07
8Pawel
JURASZEK
POL21.6707/27
10Florent
MANAUDOU
FRA21.7206/21
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Alice Wright Belknap
5 years ago

Radically good Bruno Fratus !!! Watch him again in Louisville,Ky at the Derby Pro Swimming Meet April 26, 2019 at Ralph Wright Natatorium along with other WORLD famous swimmer including our own Magnificent Mallory Comerford.

Swimmar
5 years ago

He’s by far the fastest guy on top of the water this year, reminds me of Ervin.

Ol' Longhorn
Reply to  Swimmar
5 years ago

Exactly. Like a barracuda, as Dave Marsh described Ervin.

Luigi
Reply to  Swimmar
5 years ago

I don’t think anybody is as fast as Ervin on top of the water. Fratus is a good diver, which Ervin never was. Here you can see them side by side in 2016:
https://youtu.be/8yZINL_t2rg

Ol' Longhorn
Reply to  Luigi
5 years ago

They were so far off their times in that race, it’s tough to tell.

Ragnar
5 years ago

Real men were swedes

Marmot
Reply to  Ragnar
5 years ago

Preach.

Bossanova
Reply to  Ragnar
5 years ago

Real men get DBZ tattoos.

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Torrey Hart

Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.

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