ROTTERDAM QUALIFICATION MEET (NED)
- Thursday, December 3rd – Sunday, December 6th
- Zwemcentrum Rotterdam, Netherlands
- LCM (50m)
- Olympic Qualifier/European Championships Qualifier
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- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Live Results
- Live Stream
A trio of records bit the dust during day 2 heats of the 2020 Rotterdam Qualification Meet (RQM), with Arno Kamminga, Kira Toussaint and Tes Schouten putting the rest of their Dutch compatriots on notice.
As a refresher, per the Dutch Olympic selection policy, the first phase of Olympic qualification for Dutch swimmers began with the 2019 World Championships and ends with Rotterdam. Any swimming events without two qualifiers after this weekend would still be up for grabs if anyone could notch a qualifying time at either the 2021 Swim Cup Eindhoven in April or the 2021 European Championships.
For 25-year-old Kamminga, the on-fire breaststroker already hit a new 50m breast national mark yesterday but he doubled down with another new standard in the 200m.
Entering this meet, the man’s PB and national mark in the men’s 2breast rested at the 2:07.18 he logged earlier this year at the Antwerp Diamond Race. Flashforward to Rotterdam this morning, however, and the European Short Course Champion sliced .01 off of that result to check-in with a revised record of 2:07.17.
Splits for his Antwerp swim versus this morning are as follows:
Old Record of 2:07.18 – 1:01.58/1:05.60
New Record of 2:07.17 – 1:01.17/1:06.00
With his .01 reduction, with the final still to go, Kamminga now moves up one spot among the all-time male performers, tying American Josh Prenot in slot #6.
| RANK | EVENT | TIME | PTS | ATHLETE | NF | YOB | COMPETITION | COUNTRY / DATE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:06.12
WR
|
1013 |
CHUPKOV Anton
|
 RUS |
1997 | 18th FINA World Championships 2019 | KOR 26 Jul 2019 |
| 2 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:06.67 | 1000 |
WILSON Matthew
|
 AUS |
1998 | 18th FINA World Championships 2019 | KOR 25 Jul 2019 |
| 2 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:06.67
WR
|
1008 |
WATANABE Ippei
|
 JPN |
1997 | 10th Tokyo Swimming Championships | JPN 28 Jan 2017 |
| 4 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:07.01
WR
|
1007 |
YAMAGUCHI Akihiro
|
JPN |
1994 | 67th Japan National Sports Festival – Swimming Com | JPN 15 Sep 2012 |
| 5 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:07.02 | 978 |
SATO Shoma
|
JPN |
2001 | Japan Inter-College Swimming Competition | JPN 04 Oct 2020 |
| 6 | Men 200 Breaststroke | 2:07.17 | 996 |
PRENOT Josh
|
 USA
NED |
1993 | U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming
Rotterdam Qualification Meet |
USA 30 Jun 2016 |
Of note, Kamminga had already qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games via his semifinals performance at the 2019 FINA World Championships.
Remember when 2:07.1 was the wr a few years ago? Jesus
Does Caspar’s 2:08.8 qualify for Tokyo? That is a nice LTB for him!
Sorry he went 2:08.57
The Dutch qualification time is 2.08.52.. So it would seem it just falls short. Really hope he gets under it this afternoon!!
Thanks…so close!
He’s probably the best 3 distance breastroker in the world right now but expect he’ll focus on the 200. That field’s insanely deep, but beating Peaty is more or less impossible.
Is there anyone from the 2019 World Champs that is guaranteed to make it to the Olympics (ex. the fastest person that had an A time at that meet) or was that just the first selection meet?
That was the first selection meet, this one is the second. After this one the swimmers can only qualify if there is a spot left as is stated above
Amazing that six of the seven best of all time are currently active. Chupkov is still the favorite, but the event still has to be considered wide open.
Not as impressive but still shows the depth, 19 out of the all time top 25 are still active (and so are several right behind) and all of those swimmers in the top 25 have been under 2.08.
Yeah, it’s crazy, I would have thought someone like Kitajima or Gyurta would have squeezed onto a list like this, but apparently not.
At least one the men’s side, I’m not sure there’s any other event quite so dominated by currently active swimmers. A certain GOAT is a big reason for that.
For the women, I guess 200 free? Highest non-active swimmer is Camille Muffat (RIP 🙁 ) at no 8. This event is 16/25 currently active.
2:06 INCOMING
NC State commit Noe Ponti 51.24 100fly. Nc state class of 2021 is wild.