David Popovici is without a doubt the swimmer of the year in the whole world, the Romanian athlete managed to categorically dominate the important races of the current season. To further appreciate Popovic’s impressive results, it’s enough to note that he has 8 of the 10 best times set in 2022 in the ultimate event: the 100m freestyle.
In the top of the fastest 100-meter freestyle races this season, apart from David Popovich, there are only two swimmers: Australian Kyle Chalmers and Hungarian Kristof Milak.
100m Freestyle Top 10 Fastest Races of 2022 – David Popovici, Imperial
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David Popovici will compete in the 100m freestyle at the World Junior Swimming Championships on Saturday.
European and world champion among seniors David will start the 13th series, from 17:59.
In the same test, Romania will have another representative, Patrick Sebastian Dina. It will start in series 11, from 17:54 (Romanian time).
The semi-finals at the distance of 100 m will be held on Sunday, September 4, from 02:25 (first heat), respectively from 02:30 (second heat). We are talking, of course, about Romanian time.
Finally, on Monday, September 5, from 02:02, the grand final of the 100-meter freestyle will take place.
So far, at the Junior Swimming Championships in Lima (Peru), David Popovici has won a gold medal in the 200m freestyle, as well as gold in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay and silver in the 4x100m medley relay.
David Popovici, two-time European and world champion in the summer of 2022
David Popovichi won two gold medals at the European Swimming Championships in Rome, and our athlete was unstoppable in the queen’s distance in the 100-meter freestyleand also in the fact that 200 m free.
We will remind you that in June of this year David Popovich made a double at the World Swimming Championships, he managed to prove himself in100 andtwo hundredm for free
During the entire World Swimming Championships, only one athlete managed to win the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events from the same edition.
It happened 49 years ago, and the person celebrating this feat is called Jim Montgomery (USA – he is now 67 years old). That year, the competition was hosted by Belgrade.
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