Florent Manaudou set a new World Textile Best in prelims of the men’s 100 free at the French Short Course Championships, going the fastest time ever swum in the event without the now-banned polyurethane suits.
Manaudou went 45.04 in the short-course 100m free, blowing away the previous textile-best of 45.52 set by Russian Vlad Morozov last winter at the Short Course World Championships in Istanbul.
Even more amazingly, Manaudou is just a tenth off of the overall world record of 44.94 set by Amary Leveaux back in 2008 at the height of the high-tech bodysuit era.
The swim puts Manaudou atop the 2013 world rankings ahead of previous world leader James Magnussen of Australia, who had posted a time of 45.60 back in July. Manaudou will swim the 100 free again tonight at the final, where he’ll have a chance to make a charge at the world record while going after the French national title.
He becomes a major important factor for the 400 free french relay team . that’s very clear and good news . The French have Agnel , Stravius , Gilot and Manaudou if i am not mistaken . BoBO can maybe correct me if my prediction is a bit going too fast . They will want to keep that relay as a winner for sure . Caeleb Dressel will soon become the new fresh speeding bolt for Usa to be really challenging seriously the french team . I am allready excited for SC worlds 2014 and the Us trials 2014 .
Mr Anderson, it was the final.
You are correct. We’ve updated the article
It will be interesting to see what he can do in this event in long course by 2016.
47.75 next year.
I will be bold:Below 47.50.The only problem is his 50 free may suffer a bit.
Eh, I’ll say maybe under 48, but he should stick his focus on the 50.
Santana went 49.49 100 free LCM… right now..
After his improvement in 200 free, i was expecting a bit more.Something like 49.1.His coming home(26.07) wasnt so impressive like his 200free closing(26.83).
Maybe at open wirh a stronger field
Did you saw Ocampo 100free?A PB by 1.26!He will give Santana a good run in 50 free tomorrow…he made 22 flat in Corinthians 4x50free as second leg.His best(from his fourth place Junior Worlds) is 22.48.We are gonna see some fireworks tomorrow.I hope the weather dont change too much.