DUTCH NATIONAL TEAM TIME TRIAL
- Friday, April 30th
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- LCM (50m)
- Results
At the conclusion of the British Olympic Selection Trials last week, world record-holder Adam Peaty became the owner of the top 20 performances all-time in the men’s 100m breaststroke. That incredible feat lasted just days, as Dutchman Arno Kamminga just became the 2nd man ever to dip under the 58-second threshold.
While competing in round 2 of today’s Dutch National Team Time Trial in Eindhoven, Kamminga stopped the clock in a mighty result of 57.90. That knocked over half a second off of his own newly-minted national record set just this morning, a time of 58.42. That result already sliced .01 off of the man’s previous Dutch standard of 58.43 set last December.
Blowing that performance to bits this evening, however, Kamminga opened in 26.99 and closed in 30.91 to make history, with his 57.90 monster swim now checking in as the 15th fastest performance of all-time. Peaty still owns the remaining times within the top 20 outings.
A comparison of Kamninga’s splits from this morning to tonight are as follows:
Old Record of 58.42 – 27.31/31.12
New Record of 57.90 – 26.99/30.91
Peaty is still the man to beat come Tokyo, having put up the world-leading 57.39 from the aforementioned British Trials.
Kamminga’s 57.90 swim now frog hops Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi on the season’s world rankings. With Kamminga becoming the swimmer not named Peaty to post a sub-58 second 100m breaststroke, the 25-year-old is now the 2nd fastest performer all-time in the event.
Crazy to think that Peaty had already gone 1 second faster than this, great swim by Kamminga though!
Wonder if he’ll challenge the WR in the 200
Nice, these guys are setting up new standards in breaststroke…love watching them…
I wonder who’ll snag him in ISL this year? Hopefully someone other than the top 3 (Condors, Energy, Roar).
If roar take him then that Peaty – Kamminga partnership will be fire
I think this is a signal that he will be in the 2.05 second range
Cool! If HE can then I can !
In the 2019 Canadian trials, she dropped her best time from 58.38 (from 2018 Junior Pan Pacs) to 57.04.
Then 56.52 in the semis of Worlds, 55.83 in the final.
Sjostrom’s WR is of course 55.48, but she hasn’t been sub-56 after 2017.
American breaststrokers should do a training camp in Europe and learn how to do 57s and 2:06s
That already happened 25 – 30 years ago when Barrowmen and few other breaststrokers from the U.S. went to Hungary to learn the “Wave Action Breaststroke technique.” Because at one time Hungarian breaststrokers we’re the only one’s going 2:12 – 2:14 200 meter breaststroke. You have to understand that the sport of swimming goes in cycles. As great as the USA club swimming circuit is eventually we will have group of male swimmers going :57 and 2:06 or faster.
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Agreed. In the last 30 years the world record has been broken 24 times. 9 times by Americans. 3 by Victor Davis from Canada. 3 by Kitajima. 2 Aussies. Add a couple more Japanese swimmers to the mix. Then you get Russians twice Brits once. Gyrta from Hungary was good for one. So as with pretty much every event the US is strong. If only by 2 swimmers, Hansen and Barrowman. Interestingly Hansen broke the record as often as Kitajima just couldn’t get the better of him at the right time.