So far, David Popovici has had a fantastic performance at the National Swimming Championships in Otopeni, managing to win gold medals in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly and 400m Freestyle.

David Popovich wants to compete in the 800 and 1500 meters in the future

Despite Vlad Stanku having a better swim time, David Popovici won the fourth event of the national swimming championships in Otopeni on Friday night in the 400m freestyle.

The CS Dinamo Bucharest-registered athlete had an impressive race to cap off an exceptional week in Otopeni, where he also set a new national record in the 50m butterfly.

At the end of Friday night’s race, the Romanian swimming phenom said he wanted to compete in two of the other nine events.

“The longest path to gold? All I can say is that I want to try the 800m and 1500m in the future because my coach and I feel that I shouldn’t stop and specialize in just a few events.

I have to do the scales for OJ by March 2024. There is no need to rush. We take small steps and we will get to where we need to be.” David Popovich said for TVR.

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.