2019 SETTE COLLI TROPHY
- June 21-23rd, 2019
- Stadio Olimpico Curva Nord, Rome, Italy
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28-year-old Olympic champion Florent Manaudou produced a statement-making swim this morning at the 2019 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, making his return to competitive racing in style.
While competing on day 1 of the 3-day meet, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist fired off a quick 21.73 to take the 2nd seed behind Brazil’s Bruno Fratus in the men’s 50m freestyle heats. The pair represented the only swimmers to dive under 22 seconds out of the morning, with the next fastest coming in the form of America’s Michael Andrew, who punched the wall at the same time as Italian Santo Condorelli in 22.06.
And just like that, Manaudou is now ranked 8th in the world for this season.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 50 FREE
DRESSEL
21.04
| 2 | Vladimir MOROZOV | RUS | 21.27 | 08/15 |
| 3 | Bruno FRATUS | BRA | 21.31 | 06/09 |
| 4 | Kristian GKOLOMEEV | GRE | 21.45 | 07/27 |
| 5 | Benjamin PROUD | GBR | 21.48 | 04/28 |
| 6 | Andrea VERGANI | ITA | 21.53 | 04/02 |
| 7 | Michael ANDREW | USA | 21.62 | 07/27 |
| 8 | Shinri SHIOURA | JPN | 21.67 | 04/07 |
| 8 | Pawel JURASZEK | POL | 21.67 | 07/27 |
| 10 | Florent MANAUDOU | FRA | 21.72 | 06/21 |
After taking a step back from the sport after taking 50m free silver in Rio, the Frenchman announced that he would return to competitive swimming full time, signing with the Energy Standard team of the International Swim League.
Manaudou’s personal best in the 50m free rests at a wicked-fast 21.19, a mark which ties him as the 5th fastest ever. The fact the man is already into the 21-high territory in prelims of his first meet is a good sign the beast of old is making his way back.
Great comeback in the making. Maybe taking extended time off works wonders for those with “swimmer’s fatigue”. It worked with Phelps and Ervin, now we have Manaudou.
Any way to watch finals?
The race video is on Youtube
Sub 21 for gold in Tokyo. You heard it here first.
DEEEEEEAN FARRIIIIIIIIIIIIS
Unlikely. The big finals in the 50 Free are often “slow”.
I mean I guess an average of 21.35 in the past 3 Olympics is slow, but I just feel like it will be faster next year, I could obviously be wrong. But would it be swimswam without some bold predictions.
The focus is, of course, on predicting what the winning time will be. I’m at least as interested in what it’s going to take to make the Semi’s then the Finals. It’s going to be bonkers tight.
21.70 to make top 16 and if you’re 21.78, you’ll be 20th. Then 21.50 to make Finals and 21.6 will be 12th. 21.0 wins it and 21.3 is 6th.
Don’t think it will be that fast…16 people going 21.70 or better?!?
And 6 going 21,3???? 8 21,5?
Dressel should stick to the 200 fly after this.
Hahaha what a comment
Love it
Every time I start to get exhausted by your Dressel bashing, you come through with a gem like this.
New favorite for Tokyo.
no? the 50 free is loaded with dressel, proud, fratus, andrew etc. 0.08s seperates proud’s and manaudou’s PBs. No one is the favourite in this event, or arguably even a medal lock.
Who’s Andrew?
There’s no way Andrews wins the 50 free in Tokyo
It’s a great time given the three year absence. But it’s only the 50FS and it’s still about 2.5% off his PB. If a middle distance freestyler had a PB in the 400 of, say, 3.42 and did 3.48 on the first outing of his comeback it would be about the same differential in percentage terms and there wouldn’t be nearly as much astonishment. Yet for me the latter would be more impressive.
If someone went 3.48 in the heats of a non-taper meet after 3 years out of the pool, I think reaction would be similar.
Haha same
Honestly tho. Like if Connor Dwyer went 3:48 right now most people would be pretty impressed since he’s disappeared for a number of years now
If you consider where this puts him in regards to medal contention from the last 3 olympics, he’s about 1.1% off. So using your comparison, it’s more like he just swam a 3:46 after being out of competition for 3 years…
Agree- dude is a total BEAST!
I’m not a great fan of sprint free, but the 50 is going to be incredible in Tokyo. What a statement.
Ditto – I much prefer the 200 Free as a race but there is a stacked field in the 50 right now.
“I’m not a great fan of sprint free” said no one ever
Much rather watch a good 1500 haha
I agree, as Jack Cartwright once said: “I’m a big fan of the 50 and 100”
Take that back
The 50 is the new 100 I said that last week