On Tuesday, David Popovici will try to defend his title, won a year ago at the World Championship, and the organizers of the Olympics praised our athlete before the final at the distance of 200 m freestyle in Fukuoka (Japan).

Davyd PopovychPhoto: Gian Mattia D’Alberto / LaPresse / Profimedia

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David Popovichi, highly appreciated by the organizers of the Olympic Games

At the 2024 Olympic Games, David will also compete in the 200m freestyle (he qualified after swimming in Fukuoka), and the organizers of the competition, which will be held in Paris, noted the performances of the 18-year-old swimmer.

“The name to remember before Paris 2024 is David Popovich. At 18, he holds the world record in the 100m freestyle and comes to the World Swimming Championships as the reigning 100m and 200m freestyle champion.” – the organizers of the Olympics wrote on Twitter.

They also published an article dedicated to David after the Romanian qualified for the 2024 Olympics in the 100m freestyle (after the national championship in Otopeni).

“The world record holder in the 100m freestyle broke many national records at the National Swimming Championships to guarantee a place in his second Olympics.

A native of Bucharest qualified for the Olympics by winning the 100 m freestyle with a time of 47.61. While that’s a long way off his historic 46.86 from last August, his rivals point out that it’s still an extremely fast time for this stage of the season.

It seems that Popovichi will easily overcome the 48-second 100-meter barrier.” This is stated on the official website of the Olympic Games.

David, who qualified first for the finals of the competition, where he is the world champion, will start at 14:02 (Romanian time).

Know

  • The final of the 200m freestyle event at the Swimming Championships will take place on LiveBLOG on HotNews.ro and live on the AntenaPlay platform (for a fee, €7.99 monthly subscription) and Antena 1.
  • The reigning World and European champion in this event, David swam the fifth lane in the second semi-final and stopped the clock in 1:44:70.
  • David is the third fastest swimmer in history at this distance (1:42.97, at EC Rome 2022), after German Paul Biedermann (1:42.00) and American legend Michael Phelps (1:42.96).

How the tracks will look in the grand final at the distance of 200 meters freestyle

1 Kieran Smith (USA – 23 years old)

2 Matthew Richards (Great Britain – 20 years old)

3 Sunwoo Hwang (South Korea – 20 years old)

4 David Popovichi (Romania – 18 years old)

5 Luke Hobson (USA – 20 years old)

6 Tom Dean (Great Britain – 23 years old)

7 Hojun Lee (South Korea – 22 years old)

8 Felix Aubeck (Austria – 26 years old)

Finalists of the World Swimming Championships at the distance of 200 m freestyle

1. David Popovichi (Romania) 1:44.70

2. Luke Hobson (USA) 1:44.87

3. Sanu Hwang (South Korea) 1:45.07

4. Tom Dean (Great Britain) 1:45.29

5. Matthew Richards (Great Britain) 1:45.40

6. Hojun Lee (South Korea) 1:45.93

7. Kieran Smith (USA) 1:45.96

8. Felix Aubeck (Austria) 1:45.97.

David Popovichi and 200 m freestyle from the Swimming Championships

July 24 / Evenings / 1:45:86

July 24 / Semifinals / 1:44.70

July 25 / Final / 14:02

David Popovici and the 100m freestyle from the Swimming Championships

July 26 / Evening / time 05:13

July 26 / Semi-final / 14:26 or 14:30

July 27 / Final / 14:21

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David Popovici, two-time European and world champion in the summer of 2022

David Popovici won two gold medals at the European Swimming Championships in Rome in August 2022, our athlete was unstoppable in the 100m freestyle and also in the 200m freestyle.

We will remind you that in June 2022, David Popovich made a double at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest, having won the 100 m freestyle and 200 m freestyle.

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 one who ticks off 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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