​Davyd Popovichi will swim on the night from Sunday to Monday in the 100-meter freestyle at the World Junior Swimming Championships. On the last day of the competition in Lima, three more Romanian athletes are hoping for a medal.

David Popovich and Patrick Dino will swim in the 100-meter freestyle of the queen

Romania has two athletes qualified for the 100m freestyle at the World Junior Swimming Championships. From 02:02 (Romanian time), David Popovici and Patrick Sebastian Dinu hope to climb the tricolor on the podium again.

In the semi-finals, David showed the best time (48.17), and Patrick became fifth (50.22).

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.

Vlad Stanku hopes for a medal at the distance of 1500 meters freestyle

Vlad Stanku will compete in the 1,500-meter freestyle, our athlete is the European champion among juniors. The final of this test will take place from 02:47 (Romanian time).

Bianca Costea in the 50-meter freestyle final

Bianca Costea will start in the final at the distance of 50 meters freestyle, having qualified with the second time (25.43). The final will take place from 03:17.

Three more Romanian athletes will compete in the qualification

There may still be athletes from Romania who will participate in the finals of some tests, Oleksandr Constantinescu (200 m backstroke – from 17:46 in the evening – final from 02:18), Stefan Kozma (200 m butterfly in qualifying from 10:08 – final from 03:31) and Rebecca Diaconescu (200 m freestyle – in the evening from 18:43, final from 04:00) for competition.

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 in Budapest, he managed to prove himself in 100 and two hundred m 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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