2018 FINA WORLD CUP SERIES – KAZAN
- Friday, September 7th – Sunday, September 9th
- Aquatics Palace, Kazan, Russia
- LCM
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap
- Day 3 Finals Recap
- Entries List
- Results
The final day of the World Cup Series in Kazan ended with 3 new World Cup Records biting the dust. Ukraine’s Andrii Govorov snapped a new 50m fly record, while Sarah Sjotrom of Sweden and Anton Chupkov of Russia cranked out new marks in the 100m fly and 200m breast, respectively.
All told, Sjostrom is on top of the women’s FINA World Cup leaderboard through just this first meet, while Russia’s Vlad Morozov is the #1 male thus far.
The 2018 World Cup series continues with the Doha, Qatar stop taking place September 13th-15th.
Men’s 50m fly
Vladimir Morozov and Andrew Michael were joined by world record holder Andriy Govorov in the #50FLY #Kazan #FINA #SWC18. 📺 https://t.co/bEozhdW5qV pic.twitter.com/UlDFyaKLSl
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) September 9, 2018
Women’s 100m fly (partial)
A first taste of the action from the last day of the #SWC18 #Kazan with @sarahsjostrom in the water again. #100FLY #FINA
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📺 https://t.co/bEozhdW5qV
📲 FINApp pic.twitter.com/pwhGPeEATI— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) September 9, 2018
Men’s 200 breast (partial)
Anton Chupkov was looking to double up with a win in the 200m Breast @speedo 📺 https://t.co/bEozhdW5qV pic.twitter.com/yHXaWrAAAX
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) September 9, 2018
Few thoughts:
Swimming is plagued with bad production quality. At the start of the race, why is the focus on one swimmer’s feet and hands? Why does the camera cut away during the race to a close-up of someone in the crowd’s face? Why is the video feed so jittery? Why is the 200 breast final 6/8 Russian, and why are half RUS and half CLB?
Chupkov and Prigoda do have beautiful strokes though, and it is amazing how many styles of breaststroke there are
Full videos are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuqSQ_oKYfo&list=PLAHsBNLHcZxEWyQLn6cLFBmClRp6UGlUn
Wow Lima should’ve been dqd obvious double dolphin pullout and obvious dolphin kick into wall
Normal day at the office for him