David Popovici qualified for the 100m freestyle final at the European Senior Swimming Championships in Rome on Friday, setting a new European record.
David Popovici Qualifies for CE Swimming 100m Freestyle Final
After setting a new competition record (47.20) in the races, David impressed again and broke the European record: 46.98.
The previous record (47.11) belonged to the Russian Klyment Kolesnikov. In doing so, Popovici approached the all-time best time set by Cesar Cielo Filho in 2009 at 46.91.
The final of the 100m freestyle is scheduled for Saturday at 19:22 (Romanian time).
The program of television broadcasts of the European Senior Swimming Championships from Rome
CE Natatie de la Rome is broadcast in Romania by TVR1. The TVR1 program schedule is as follows:
AUGUST 12, FRIDAY – 10:00-11:00 – evening;
AUGUST 12, FRIDAY – 18:55-20:00 – semi-finals;
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 – 9:50-13:00 – evening;
AUGUST 13, SATURDAY – 18:55-20:00 – semi-finals and finals;
AUGUST 14, SUNDAY – 10:00-13:00 – evening;
AUGUST 14, SUNDAY – 19:00-20:23 – semi-finals and finals;
AUGUST 15, MONDAY – 18:55-19:45 – semi-finals and finals;
MONDAY, AUGUST 16 – 10:00-12:00 – evening;
AUGUST 16, MONDAY – 18:55-19:34 – semi-finals;
AUGUST 17, TUESDAY – 10:00-12:00 – evening;
AUGUST 17, TUESDAY – 18:55-20:00 – final.
Romanian athletes competing at CE Senior Swimming in Rome
Swimming
David Popovichi (100 m free, 200 m free, 400 m free, 4×100 m free relay)
Oleksandra Dobrin (200 m individual medley, 400 m individual medley)
Oleksandra Viktoritsa Bohdanechi (50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly)
Patrick Sebastian Dinu (100 m freestyle, 4×100 m relay)
Giorgii-Aleksandru Stoyka-Konstantin (100 m free, 4×100 m free relay)
Mihai Gergely (100 m freestyle, 200 m medley, 4×100 m freestyle relay)
Andrii Mircha Angel (50 m backstroke, 100 m backstroke)
Jumping into the water
Amelie Forster (springboard 1 m)
Angelica Muscalu (10 m platform)
High diving
Katelyn Preda
Konstantin Popovych
1,500 athletes from 50 countries will compete at the European Championship. They will be competing for 231 medals, which the organizers will be raffling off over 11 days of events in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, open water swimming and high diving.
Source: Hot News RO
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