Noè Ponti is the star on the first day

The outstanding athlete on the first day was the Swiss Olympic bronze medalist and vice-European champion Noè Ponti. The 21-year-old from Ticino won three races and also set the only meeting record in the 50 m dolphin. In 22,77 seconds, he improved his event best time from last year (22,91) by 0,14 seconds. Ponti also won the opening 100 m freestyle in 48,24 seconds and at the end the 100 m individual medley in 53,23 seconds. Both are personal best times for Ponti, who will compete in the 100 m deflin and 50 m freestyle on Sunday.

Nika Godun celebrated two victories on the first day. The 25-year-old Russian, who competes for the BVSC Budapest and traveled from Hungary, narrowly missed two event records she was aiming for. In her victory in the 50 m breaststroke, she was two tenths of a second better than Katie Meili's record from 30,06 in 2015 seconds. The third in the last short course European Championships was also clearly the fastest in the 100 m individual medley in 1.00,49:XNUMX minutes.

The swimmers from the USA lived up to expectations. Madison Kennedy, who competed in Bolzano for the first time in 2009, lived up to her role as favorite in the 100 m freestyle in 56,05 seconds and celebrated her 7th victory in total in the valley town. Ali DeLoof won the 100m backstroke in 1,00,74 and Kendyl Stewart was unbeatable in the 50m backstroke in 27,19.

The interest was great.

In the men's 50 m breaststroke, Lachezar Shumkov from Bulgaria repeated his victory from last year. On Saturday he won in 28,47 seconds. In the 100 m backstroke there was the fourth Swiss victory of the day by Thierry Bollin in 52,17.

The South Tyrolean athletes were also able to put themselves in the spotlight. Sabrina Weger from SSV Bozen made it onto the podium twice (second in the 100 m freestyle, third in the 50 m dolphin), Laura Dema from SSV Bruneck took second place in the 100 m backstroke. And talent Luca Scampicchio from SSV Bozen swam a youth regional record in the 100 m freestyle (50,71) and a youth national record in the 50 m dolphin (25,04).

The boys relay team from SSV Bozen (Patrick Bevilacqua, Lorenzo Benedetti, Luca Scampicchio, Jacopo Pitone) set a youth national record in the 4 x 50 m medley in 1.48,53:XNUMX.

Part two of the 26th edition of the South Tyrol Swim Meeting follows on Sunday, with 37 clubs from twelve countries taking part this year. The stars can be admired in the fastest three series (Top 13.20) from 24:XNUMX p.m.

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