David Popovici won his fourth gold medal at the National Swimming Championships in Otopeni after winning the 400m freestyle ahead of Vlad Stanka.

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David Popovichi won the 400 meters freestyle – he defeated Vlad Stanka

David Popovici wins medal after medal at the National Swimming Championships in Otopeni, while the CS Dinamo Bucharest-registered athlete also won the 400m freestyle.

In this test, David Popovici finished ahead of Vlad Stanka, managing to finish in 3:51.18 minutes.

The podium was completed by Vlad Stanka (3:52.45 minutes), who won silver, and Nandor Nagy (4:01.39 minutes).

Initially, David Popovich entered the final with the second time, but the 18-year-old athlete made a great comeback, outclassing his opponents.

At the National Swimming Championships in Otopeni this week, David also won gold in the 50m freestyle, 100m backstroke and 50m butterfly (he broke the national record in that event).

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 managed to demonstrate himself at the distances of 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 person celebrating this feat is called Jim Montgomery (USA – he is now 67 years old). That year, the competition was hosted by Belgrade.