2025 FRENCH ELITE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Now midway by the French Elite Championships, day 4 of the competitors kicked off with a powerful prelims session this morning. A variety of occasions was raced, as the lads’s 200 again, girls’s 200 breast, males’s 50 breast, girls’s 100 free, males’s 200 IM and girls’s 800 free have been all a part of the lineup.
As a reminder, Leon Marchand is absent from this meet after being granted an exception that allowed him to qualify for the World Championships roster on the Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite final month.
Whereas nothing too loopy occurred within the males’s 200 again this morning, it ought to form as much as be an thrilling race tonight. Main the cost as the highest seed tonight is Antoine Herlem, who posted a season-best time of 1:57.91. Claiming the #2 and #3 spots have been Olympians Mewen Tomac (1:58.43) and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (1:58.70); Tomac positioned 4th within the 200 again on the Olympics final summer season, whereas Ndoye-Brouard completed sixteenth.
The highest spot within the girls’s 200 breast went to Adele Blanchetiere, who turned in a time of two:31.79 to narrowly beat out Zia Dupont‘s 2:32.19. Securing the #3 seed heading into finals tonight in 2:33.89 was Roos Vanotterdijk, who simply demolished her personal Belgium nationwide report within the 200 IM (2:09.73) on day one of many competitors.
The ladies’s 100 free amped up the joy, as 2024 Olympic semi-finalist Beryl Gastaldello raced into the highest spot in 54.35, just below half a second off of her season-best (53.92) from February. Marina Jehl, who completed seventh at this meet final 12 months, threw down a lifetime finest time of 54.78 to clinch the runner-up place and knock .46 off of her earlier time. One other semi-finalist in Paris, Marie Wattel picked up the #3 seed in 54.82.
With Marchand absent for the 200 IM, Jacques Saletes posted the highest time this morning, as he raced into the wall in 2:02.39 to mark a brand new season-best. He narrowly edged out runner-up Jaouad Syoud, who turned in a time of two:02.52. Final 12 months’s iteration of this meet noticed Syoud place third whereas Saletes completed fifth, so will probably be attention-grabbing to see what the pair throw down tonight.
The boys’s 50 breast is shaping as much as be a decent race this night. Defending champion Carl Aitkaci is again within the combine, however solely secured the #4 seed heading into finals in 27.59. Final 12 months’s runner-up Jérémie Delbois leads the cost as the highest seed along with his lifetime finest efficiency of 27.34, simply forward of Yamato Okadome, who posted a 27.38. Securing the #3 spot was Pierre Goudeneche in 27.57.
