XV SUMMER EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
- Monday, July 22nd – Friday, July 26th (swimming)
- Baku Aquatics Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
- Meet Site
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap
- Results
- Live Steam
Day 4 of the 2019 Europan Youth Olympic Festival saw the nation of Poland snag its first gold medal, courtesy of Mateusz Chowaniec‘s field-topping time of 22.91 in the men’s 50m free. Hitting the wall in the only sub-23 second mark of the field, the 15-year-old fired off the fastest time of his career, surpassing the 23.21 he produced just earlier this month domestically.
Runner-up went to yesterday’s 100m free winner David Popovici, with the Romanian slicing .26 off of his lifetime best with a new mark of 23.03. Dutch speedster Tim Korstanje, younger brother of Nyls Korstanje who races for NC State in the NCAA, collected bronze in 23.08.
14-year-old Jacob Whittle of Great Britain followed up his 100m free silver with a 4th place finish here in a time of 23.25, although he was 23.11 in the semi-final.
Beril Boecekler of Turkey continues to make her mark on this meet, following up her 400m free victory with a 200m free gold tonight. The 15-year-old punched a time of 2:00.62 to take the win over a charging Freya Colbert of Great Britain.
For the Turk, her time tonight destroys her previous personal best of 2:02.69 from April of this year, as well as the 2:03.52 she put up in Kazan at the European Junior Championships just weeks ago. In fact, Boecekler’s 2:00.62 podium topper tonight checks-in as a new Turkish National Record overtaking her temmate Gizem Guvenc’s time of 2:01.36 logged in Kazan.
Russia’s Aleksandra Sabitova improved upon her newly-minted 100m fly EYOF Record from last night’s semi-final to produce a winning time of 59.07. She represented just 1 of 2 sub-minute swimmers in the final, with Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk securing silver in 59.33. Germany’s Amelie Zachenhuber took bronze in 1:00.01.
Another EYOF Record went down courtesy of Sabitova’s teammate Aleksei Tkachev. The man produced a time of 2:01.24 to knock .03 off of his semi-leading time from last night, giving him the gold less than half a second ahead of runner-up Berke Saka of Turkey. Saka touched in 2:01.62, while Poland’s Filip Kosinski rounded out the podium in 2:01.62 for bronze.
Russia also collected gold in the mixed medley relay, notching a time of 3:52.27.
Notable Semi-Finals:
- Erika Francesca Gaetani of Italy sits as the #1 seed headed into tomorrow night’s 100m back final, holding a time of 1:01.98. She took the silver medal at this year’s Euro Juniors in a time of 1:01.62.
- The women’s 100m breast has Evgenia Chikunova headed to lane 4, rocking a semi swim of 1:08.91.
- Yesterday’s 200m fly silver medalist Edward Mildred of Great Britain is right near his 200m free personal best of 1:51.30 already, clocking 1:51.66 to lead the men’s 200m free.
- Katie Shanahan already won the women’s 200m backstroke here and is hoping to make it 2-for-2 with a 200m IM gold. She took the top seed in 2:15.61.
Swimming Medal Table Through Day 4:
| RANK | COUNTRY | Gold | Silver | Bronze | TOTAL | RANK BY TOTAL |
| 1 | Russian Federation | 10 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 |
| 3 | Turkey | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| 4 | Croatia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Romania | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Hungary | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 9 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | France | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 11 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Israel | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 13 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
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