MADRID, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Thursday, the Spanish Carles Coll entered the men’s 100 meter medley final at the World Short Course Swimming Championships, which is being held in Budapest (Hungary), thanks to his finish time of 51.50 to establish a new record. from Spain.
At the Duna Arena in the Hungarian capital, the second ‘semi’ of those 100 styles saw the Croatian Nikola Miljenic lose to finish fifth (52.56) and be overtaken by the Austrian Heiko Gigler, who won with 51.30 and whose slipstream was finished by Coll and the Brazilian Caio Pumputis (51.76).
After his new national record, Coll will swim the final this Friday on lane number 6, having set the fourth mark of the competitors. On his way to the final test for the podium, the man from Tarragona had already faced off against the Swiss Noè Ponti, who in his ‘semi’ broke the championship record (50.43) and will start as a favorite for gold.
On the other hand, in the morning session, the also Spaniards Arbidel González and Miguel Martínez Novoa swam the qualifying heats of the men’s 200 butterfly. They did not coincide in the pool, but they touched their marks from last November during the Spanish Championships in Madrid.
This time the duel was won by González, who from lane number 4 of the fourth series was third with 1:51.92; It was a new record for Spain, to the detriment of Novoa’s previous mark (1:51.97 from a month ago in Madrid). And for the fifth and final series of this World Cup in Hungary, Novoa himself achieved a time of 1:52.63 to finish second.
Additionally, Laura Cabanes finished tenth (2:06.91) in the 200 butterfly after being third in her heat; The cutoff for the final was 2:05.53. Carlos Garach, who did 3:42.18 in his 400 freestyle series, lost his chances of entering the direct final by finishing sixteenth overall.
Emma Carrasco, on the outside lane, set the third time ever (1:00.19) in the 100 medleys, but it was not enough to reach the demanding semi-finals (21st). Something similar happened to the 50 m backstroke, in the women’s event Carmen Weiler with 27.13 (22nd) –cut in 26.8– and in the men’s event Iván Martínez Sota with 23.61 (24th) –cut in 23.3–.