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2022 World Junior Championships: Hungary Back at Top of Medal Table on Day 3

2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships

Day 3: Wednesday, 1 September

There were five finals contested on Wednesday night and Hungary won gold in two of them to retake the lead in the medal table ahead of Poland.

Japan, Spain, and Portugal won the three other gold medals.

The first win of the evening went to Japan’s Yuzuki Mizuno (2:09.79) who won the girls’ 200 back by .01 over Dora Molnar from Hungary (2:09.80). Hungary’s Laura Bernat came in third (2:11.09), edging Japan’s Mio Narita by .01. Mizuno won this event at Junior Pan Pacs last week with 2:09.17, while Molnar and Bernat finished 1-2 at Euro Juniors with 2:10.31 and 2:11.07.

Diogo Matos Ribeiro put Portugal on the board, earning that country’s first medal with a gold in the boys’ 100 fly. Daniel Gracik of Czech Republic (52.51) and Casper Puggard of Denmark (52.94) rounded out the podium.

Nikolett Padar added another gold medal to Hungary’s total with a 55.11 victory in the girls’ 100 free. Italy swept the silver and bronze with Matilde Biagiotti (55.56) and Marina Cacciapuoti (55.92). Padar also won this event in July at Euro Juniors where she clocked a rapid 54.69.

Spain’s Carlos Garach Benito won the boys’ 800 free (7:52.73), moving his country up to seventh on the medal table. Batuhan Filiz of Turkey picked up the silver (7:55.61) and Romania earned another bronze medal with Vlad Stefan Stancu (7:56.14).

The mixed 4×100 free relay proved decisive in determining which nation finished the night on top of the standings. Hungary got the win in 3:30.03, overcoming Romania’s significant lead on the first two legs. Romania went 3:30.39 for the silver medal, while Italy’s 3:32.54 was good enough for the bronze.

Medal Table Through Day 3

Rank Nation Symbol Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Hungary HUN 4 3 0 7
2 Poland POL 3 0 3 6
3 Japan JPN 2 3 2 7
=4 Romania ROU 2 2 1 5
=4 Turkey TUR 2 2 1 5
6 Italy ITA 1 3 6 10
7 Spain ESP 1 1 1 3
=8 Austria AUT 1 0 0 1
=8 Brazil BRA 1 0 0 1
=8 Portugal POR 1 0 0 1
=11 South Africa RSA 0 1 1 2
=11 Czech Republic CZE 0 1 1 2
=13 France FRA 0 1 0 1
=13 Serbia SRB 0 1 0 1
=15 Denmark DEN 0 0 1 1
=15 Lithuania LTU 0 0 1 1
Total     18 18 18 54

 

 

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John Miranda
2 years ago

So no mention of what Popovici split on the 4×100 mixed relay? Gee, no one interested in that? #FFS

Verram
2 years ago

happy for these countries winning medals.. but its quite weird seeing a medal table without the usual powerhouse countries

Swimmka
Reply to  Verram
2 years ago

I do not think that you can call a them powerhouse if they are unable to swim through the entire season. For most of the big European names in this WJC have 4 big international competition and they are still on top, while US, Canada, Australia said it is too much to come to WJC.

Joel
Reply to  Swimmka
2 years ago

FINA made the decision on junior worlds too late. The Pacific nations had already committed to a junior pan pacs competition in Hawaii because the junior teams had not any competitions in 2020 or 2021.

nena
Reply to  Joel
2 years ago

true FINA made late decision, it is not easy to find alternative within 30 days for World Juniors (It should have been Kazan RUS, LIma appointed in April instead) however, PAN PACS could have moved its games for earlier and this way should have come to LIMA and show respect to FINA, this way PAN PACS did not allow its 2004 boys and 2005 girls to have at least one World Junior, such a pity for those boys and girls, and PAN PACS avoided clash with Popovici, Pudar, Padar. Pilato, Masiuk, Coetze,Gallosi to name a few…. Many from Europe did not come to LIMA, which is wrong, if D Popovic can come, everybody else should have came.

Swimmka
Reply to  Joel
2 years ago

European championship was just a week ago, and we had plenty of juniors – even beyond Popovici – who participated both ( Kvasiuk, Padar, Molnar just to mention couple of them). Furthermore Japanese juniors are in Lima, even though they were at PanPacs too. So what is the excuse?

Swimmer2
Reply to  Verram
2 years ago

Hmmm. You almost made it sound like Hungary is an “also-ran” and not one of those “powerhouse” countries. Please check out which country sits at the 4th place listing the all-time swimming Olympic medal table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Last edited 2 years ago by Swimmer2
Swimmer2
Reply to  Verram
2 years ago

We only finished second in Rome at Euro this year. I know it’s lame:
https://staging.swimswam.com/for-the-first-time-ever-italy-tops-europan-championships-medal-table/

Verram
Reply to  Swimmer2
2 years ago

Good for you .. well done .. that is so awesome … keep it up haha

Swimmer2
Reply to  Verram
2 years ago

Why and when did you become this sour and bitter? I’m glad you are not my neighbor.

Swimmka
Reply to  Verram
2 years ago

I think the only powerhouse missing is the Russians

Verram
Reply to  Swimmka
2 years ago

They’ll all be dead soon right ? That’s a shame

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