The second day of Brazil’s Winter Junior and Senior Champs saw perhaps the next in the long line of elite Brazilian sprinters nab the headlines.
17-year-old Felipe Ribeiro, who currently trains with Junior World Record-holder Matheus Santana at Unisanta, won the 200 free and put up a big 100 free split on the closing relay.
Ribeiro blasted to a win in the Junior I 200 free, going 1:50.62 and shattering an 11-year-old meet record by nearly a full second.
But he saved his best swim for last, closing the night as the anchor of Unisanta’s 4×100 free relay. Trailing Corinthians, Ribeiro popped off a 49.10 to nearly bring his team back for the win. Unisanta ultimately took second by .01, with Corinthians hanging on for the win in 3:29.82.
Five more meet records went down on night 2 of the meet, which features all age groups swimming together in prelims, then breaks them up into two junior categories and a senior class for finals.
In the men’s Junior II 200 free, Luiz Altamir broke the meet record with a 1:50.17, atoning for a rough Maria Lenk meet, where he was sick during competition.
Meet records went down in all three men’s 200 free races, as Joao Veras went 1:49.74 to break the meet mark.
In an event with just two entrants, Joanna Marahao broke the meet record in the senior 400 IM, making up for the race’s questionable depth with a great top-end effort of 4:52.81, a good 7 seconds under the old record.
In the men’s IM, Brandonn Almeida won the Junior II class, going 4:25.13 to hack five seconds off the old meet record.
And in the Junior II 4×100 free relay on the men’s side, Pinheiros took down the meet mark, going 3:23.30. That was led by Pedro Spajari‘s 50.15 anchor leg.
Bobo I heard that French federation will take legal actions against Leveux. True story?
I don’t follow closely all these useless stories but I’ve found an article on the website of L’équipe.
The French federation has reacted last week.
Vice president Lucien Gastaldello, Béryl’s father, said that Leveaux shooted himself in the foot with that book. He threatens reprisals against him. Leveaux should have been swimming TV consultant in the future. Gastaldello says that Leveaux can forget it. And he also puts pressure on him about money with bills of the past that Leveaux has to repay to the federation.
Sorry for the rough translation.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Natation/Actualites/La-ffn-repond-a-amaury-leveaux/552850
And Cielo doesn’t want to answer doping allegations by Leveaux.
http://www.lequipe.fr/Natation/Actualites/Cesar-cielo-ne-repondra-pas-a-amaury-leveaux/553802
A Brazilian coach talked with Levaux old training partners and they told he is a frustrated guy, just trying to gain some spotlight and money.
Felipe split was on his fifth race of the day after 2 rounds of 200 free and 100 fly. Today is 100 free he went 49,16 at South American junior championship let’s see today
Talking about Brazilian swimming, I post the interview of Amaury Leveaux on French TV last Saturday. For those who understand French of course.
Sleeping interview overall. Nothing new.
He says that Marseille swimmers are full of themselves, that Agnel is not as intellectual as it seems, that cocaine is used in French swimming and around 13 minutes in the video says that Cielo and overall the Brazilian swimmers (plus the Russian) are doped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx5U9BjWgd8
Bobo I would go with Santana fratus de lucca or chiereginni and cielo closing the relay. By Rio Felipe might take one spot.
Thanks.
In resume you have 6 guys for 4 spots in final.
Cielo to anchor rather than lead-off?
Actually.I think there will be 7 guys fighting for the relay.
Cielo, Santana, Chiereghini, Fratus, de Lucca, Nicolas, Felipe.. There are also 2 or 3 guys who could try but would be an outside shot.
Cielo and Santana will be on finals only I Think… 2 fastest from the morning swims final.. Unless someome like Santana wants to swim Morning also.
About lead-off while Both Santana and Cielo can bo 48 low ( I THink Santana can swim 47 already) Cielo showed he can swim better splits due to his pure sprint speed.. He already went 47,1 and he showed he still can put good splits last year on Doha..
Ddias, be honest.
It looks like everything is planned to see the men’s Brazilian 4X100 free relay win at home at olympic games.
The mix of veterans and youngsters looks very good.
I don’t say they will win (Australia, France and USA disagree) but they can win. And it’s new. No many people would have said that 2 or 3 years ago.
2 questions.
Are you confident?
And what is TODAY (things can change until Rio) the best Brazilian line-up in your opinion, the 4 names you would pick for the relay final from lead-off leg to anchor leg?
1)Confident?No.Even if you have 4 guys capable to do 47, you need ALL of them deliver at SAME time.
2)TODAY, my team(in order) is Santana,Chieriguini,De Lucca and Cielo. Fratus is a good slot, but he is irregular 100free swimmer, capable to do 48mid in prelims and 49mid in final.In Maria Lenk, even a bit far from his best, DeLucca made 47.85 in relay after doing only 49.15 in individual.
A fast sprinter in Brazil?! Next you’ll tell me there’s a doper in Russia.
It sounds like young Felipe is reaching the senior international level just in time! Maybe he’ll be able to swim on the 4×200 relay for Brazil?
Hard to tell, his best 200 is 1:50.2, not so far behind Brazil fourth slot now(1:49.17).
His 100 closing relay was impressive.He was clearly mad to lose by 0.01.Most of Junior1 swimmers(16-17 years-old in Brazil) swim between 51high to 52.It is a huge boost have one swimming in 49low.He is just 0.03 shy of 17years-old best ever in South America(Matheus Santana 49.13 from 2013)
Just putting in context for everyone reading this news:
When Ribeiro jumped in the pool, Corinthians was 2.72 seconds ahead of Unisanta. He let them just 0.01s behind.