2018 FINA WORLD CUP – DOHA
- Thursday, September 13th – Saturday, September 15th
- Hamad Aquatic Centre (HAC), Aspire Zone, Doha, Qatar
- Heats at 10am local/Finals at 6pm local
- LCM
- Entry Lists
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Results
American Blake Pieroni broke the World Cup Record en route to winning gold in the men’s 100 freestyle on day 2 in Doha, putting up a time of 48.11 to knock off Chad Le Clos‘ 2015 standard of 48.16.
Pieroni, who finished a close 2nd to Russian Vlad Morozov at the first stop in a respectable 48.30, opened up a lead in excess of a half-second at the 50 in 23.12, and didn’t relinquish much coming home in a blistering 24.99.
Morozov, known for his opening speed, was conservative on the opening 50, out in 23.68, and made up some ground with a 24.75 second half but it wasn’t enough to run down the 22-year-old American. He was 2nd in 48.43, and Belgian Pieter Timmers was nearly two-tenths better than he was in Kazan for 3rd (49.04). Morozov won the first stop in 48.26.
Pieroni’s swim fell just .03 shy of personal best of 48.08, set when he won the U.S. National title in July, as he continues to show good form after setting a pair of personal bests on day 1 in the 50 (22.17) and 400 free (3:53.98) where he finished 3rd and 1st respectively.
What a great swim! Bravo for him. He’ll sneak under :48 soon
Very soon
Yes, I predict he will at the next World Cup stop!
I kinda wish this was SCM.
Why? Scm is dumb
American says scm is dumb. Typical
I can come up with one unimpeachable, totally-pragmatic reason why SCY swimming is better than SCM swimming:
You can split a 50 meter pool into two 25 yard pools that run in the same direction as the 50 meter course and without being limited to a 25 yard width/drilling new holes for lane ropes/blocks/etc.
(But yeah, if SCM is dumb, then so is SCY. Neither is really more or less valid than the other, except that maybe it’s a little easier to convert times from LCM to SCM because the literal distance is the same).
Of course short course meters is more valid! Who else in the world swims yards besides America? I know the US is strongest swimming in the world, but you can be world champion in shortcourse meters but not in yards. That alone, makes short course meters way more valid!
NCAAs is more important than SC worlds to US swimmers.
Think global then
I know what you’re trying to say but there are quite a few internationals in the NCAA
no shiz
Yeah but SCY is dumber
The rest of the World Cups are scm….just for you!
You can get in shape and stay in shape by racing a lot. Isn’t that what Michael does? If you have no perceived skepticism about “getting out of shape”, then he will be fine! Plus he has til Worlds end of the summer to focus on Worlds after all the World Cup$!
Is he getting a little bit of a travel taper or is this a true in season swim
I think the only people that do real in season, middle of training, beat up swims are the boys at florida. when theres money on the line or big competition, the big names usually rest somewhat
how is Blake training over there if he is doing the entire series? Is he working out with Andrews? Giving USRPT a shot?
Might be smart!
Way to go Blake!
Chad LeClos downvoted this.