2019 SWIM CUP AMSTERDAM
- Friday, December 13th – Sunday, December 15th
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
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While competing on day 2 of the 2019 Swim Cup Amsterdam, 24-year-old Arno Kamminga brought the crowd to its feet by swimming the fastest 100m breaststroke ever by a Dutchman.
After establishing himself as the man to beat with a morning swim of 59.00 in the heats, Kamminga turned it on big-time to finish atop the podium in a lifetime best of 58.65. That mark overtakes his own previous national record 58.98 logged just last month while competing at the FINA World Cup Series stop in Kazan.
Splits for Kamminga’s race tonight in Amsterdam versus his previous record are as follows, showing Kamming had a lot left in the tank on the back half this time around:
Old Record of 58.98: 27.61/31.37
New Record of 58.65: 27.77/30.88
Kamminga made it to the semi-finals in this LCM 100 breast at this year’s World Championships, finishing 13th in a time of 59.49. As such, the man has dropped major time in just a few short months to get under the 59-second threshold for just the 2nd time of his career. In fact, his time tonight would have placed him 4th in the Gwangju final.
Kamminga’s 58.65 outing tonight easily clears the 59.93 FINA qualifying cut for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Dutchman accomplished the same feat in last night’s 200m breast, where he took gold in a time of 2:07.96.
The man recently earned double gold in Glasgow, taking the 100m and 200m breast events at last week’s European Short Course Championships.
Interesting improvements to say the least by him and Toussaint during those last couple of months at quite a high age (for swimmers). I hope that neither of them will win a medal in Tokyo.
Does anyone think we could get a sub 59 100m breaststroke final in Tokyo? I know it’s a long shot but Peaty, Wilby, Shymanovich, Kamminga, Martinenghi, Cordes, Miller, maybe Australian Wilson can dip below as well? Anyone got any other potential names? Ik I’m getting ahead of myself but damn the global depth in this race is amazing.
So I’m dumb, how could I forget the Russians lol, Chupkov and Prigoda are certainly in the mix
Usa Wilson went sub 59 at worlds while Cordes is still stuggling to break a minute now.
You forgot the Asians too. Chinese Yan and Japanese Koseki were consistently under 59 in the past years.
And now the only one we are missing from the 2019 100 br final is Balandin. He could also go sub 59.
And Chupkov dipped under 59 recently too and will probably keep improving his speed.
i would’ve put Wilson instead of the 2 other Us swimmers ….
Meanwhile, it’ll be 2030 and Australia will still be looking for a sub 59 breaststroker.
Not sure if you’re serious after Wilson went 59.1 at world’s?
It’s a bit of hyperbole for sure and I know he’s knocking on the door but he’s not quite there yet.
USA also isn’t exactly full of fast breaststroke’s right now.
Wym? Usrpt is gonna put MA as the second person under 58 for the 1 breast.
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Martinenghi, now Kamminga… So the Olympic year rush begins.
It does, but they need to be 57 lowish to get anywhere near Adam.
Or it can be Adam at 57 middle to make things interesting. 😀 Olympic competition isn’t necessarily the fastest one for many swimmers.
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I think you meant 56 middle.
And nothing is wrong with a silver or bronze!!!
They’re probably fine with swimming for silver at this point.