2023 FRENCH CHAMPIONSHIPS (25M)
- Thursday, October 26th – Sunday, October 29th
- Angers, France
- SCM (25m)
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Mewen Tomac was the third swimmer to set a new National Record on the opening day of the French Short Course Championships in Angers, as the 23-year-old logged a time of 1:49.21 in the men’s 200 backstroke en route to a decisive three-second victory.
Tomac’s swim slices two one-hundredths off the previous French Record of 1:49.23, set by Yohann Ndoye-Brouard at the 2022 Short Course World Championships in Melbourne just over 10 months ago.
Tomac was also in the field at last December’s SC Worlds, placing 6th in the final (1:49.93) after setting a PB of 1:49.61 in the prelims. Ndoye-Brouard’s National Record swim in the final earned him 4th place.
Split Comparison
| Ndoye-Brouard, Old FR Record (2022) | Tomac, Old PB (2022) | Tomac, New FR Record (2023) |
| 25.12 | 25.51 | 25.31 |
| 52.31 (27.19) | 53.19 (27.68) | 52.64 (27.33) |
| 1:20.13 (27.82) | 1:21.42 (28.23) | 1:20.63 (27.99) |
| 1:49.23 (29.10) | 1:49.61 (28.19) | 1:49.21 (28.58) |
Ndoye-Brouard was in the field on Thursday, taking a distant 2nd to Tomac in 1:52.30.
Tomac joined Anastasia Kirpichnikova (women’s 1500 free) and Maxime Grousset (men’s 100 fly) as National Record breakers on Thursday, while Charlotte Bonnet came within a tenth of her own mark in the women’s 200 IM.
Tomac narrowly missed a spot on the podium at the 2023 World Championships (LCM) in Fukuoka, placing 4th in the 200 back in a time of 1:55.79—just shy of Ndoye-Brouard’s French Record of 1:55.62—and he was also a finalist in the 100 back, taking 8th.