2017 FRENCH ELITE LONG COURSE NATIONALS
- Tuesday, May 23 – Sunday, May 28, 2017
- Centre Nautique de Schiltigheim, Strasbourg
- 50-meter course
- Prelims at 9:00 AM / Finals at 5:30 PM
- Televised on beIN SPORTS1 Tue-Fri / beIN SPORTS2 Sat / beIN SPORTS3 Sun
- FINA Qualifying Standards for 2017 Worlds
- Meet Central
- Start Lists
- Results
The 2017 French Elite Long Course Nationals continued this morning in Strasbourg with day 6 prelims. Swimmers gathered to compete in the men’s 200 breast and 50 free, while the women competed in the 100 back, 50 fly, and 400 free. Read on for highlights from today’s morning session.
Be sure to check out our recaps in French on SwimSwam Francais. You can find today’s prelims recap here.
After sweeping the IM events, Jeremy Desplanches will look to add another Swiss National Record to his resume, setting himself up in lane 4 for the men’s 200 breast final. Desplanches cranked out a 2:13.25 this morning, and will be chasing Yannick Kaeser’s Swiss Record of 2:11.65 from 2015 in the final.
Melanie Henique and Beryl Gastaldello are slated to battle in the 50 fly final. Henique was the only woman to break 26 this morning, posting a 25.92 to grab lane 4 ahead of Gastaldello’s 26.62. This was Gastaldello’s 2nd swim of the morning, as she’d already qualified 3rd for the 100 back final in a smooth 1:02.16.
Algerian sprinter Oussama Sahnoune and French sprinting veteran Clément Mignon battled closely for the top spot in the 50 free. Sahnoune got his hand to the wall with the fastest finish, clocking in at 22.22 ahead of Mignon’s 22.31. In tonight’s final, he’ll be chasing the Algerian Record of 22.06 done by Salim Iles in 2004.
Additional Top Seeds:
- Women’s 100 back- Camille Gheorghiu, 1:01.93
- Women’s 400 free- Anna Egorova, 4:12.11
Qualified for Budapest:
MEN
Geoffroy Mathieu in the 200 back
Mehdy Metella in the 100 free and the 100 fly
Camille Lacourt in the 50 back
Jérémy Stravius in the 50 back
WOMEN
Anna Santamans in the 50 free
Aurélie Muller in the 1500 free
Charlotte Bonnet in the 100 free and 200 free
Béryl Gastaldello in the 100 fly and the 100 back
Mathilde Cini in the 100 back
Mélanie Hénique in the 50 back
No relay qualified
Hénique in the 50 Fly…
Well, women’s freestyle is presented from 50 through 1500 at the level sufficient to be at final. Not bad at all. How many countries can brag of such feat. We probably won’t see gold medals and that hurts the pride of some French commentators to this site. But it can easily happen to many countries including ones with the great swimming traditions. Australia for example. And yet they behave decently and stay behind their swimmers without shaming them despite they have more reasons to be disappointed.
Women’s 50 fly. 1. Mélanie Hénique in 25.85
Qualified
2. Béryl Gastaldello in 26.02
Men’s 50 free. 1. Oussama Sahnoune in 22.25
2. Clément Mignon in 22.34
No qualification
Less worse than expected?
Women’s 400 free. 1. Alizée Morel in 4.13.04
No qualification
I’m afraid of seeing the time of the best French girl in the 400 free in a few minutes.
Men’s 200 breast. 1. Jérémy Desplanches in 2.11.83
2. Quentin Coton in 2.14.19. Best Frenchman in 2.14…. Help.
No qualification
Lol “help”
Women’s 100 back. 1. Béryl Gastaldello in 1.00.17
2. Mathilde Cini in 1.00.57
Both girls will swim that event in Budapest.
Not fast enough to qualify the medley relay.
A NAG record for 14-year-old girls in the B-Final with Louise Lefebvre in 1.03.72. It’s 1.00.26 in USA by Regan Smith.
1.00.26 at 14 is just offensively good. Can’t get my head around that. I didn’t break the minute until I was 18 (I’m male lol)!
Spanish 14 year-old Claudia Espinosa 1:03.28 this year and 1:03.60 last year at 13.
Useless stat but with 1.00.26 you were male record holder until September 1964 and female world record holder until September 1994.
Men’s 1500 free. 1. Marc-Antoine Olivier in 15.05.08
No qualification