2019 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM
- Friday, April 12th – Monday, April 15th
- Eriksdalsbadet, Stockholm, Sweden
- LCM
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
- Start Lists
- Results
Germany’s Poul Zellmann powered his way from 3rd seed after heats to the top of the pack in tonight’s final of the men’s 200m free to kick-off day 2 of the Stockholm Open. He touched the wall first tonight in a gold medal-garnering effort of 1:46.89.
Splitting 52.13/54.76, the 23-year-old Zellmann put up the fastest time of his career, crushing his previous swiftest of 1:47.14 produced in Berlin 2 years ago. As such, tonight’s performance represents the first time he’s ever gone under the 1:47 barrier in the event and just the 2nd time he’s ever been under 1:48.
In fact, Zellmann’s outing now ranks him as the 4th fastest German performer in history, with only the following 3 men having clocked quicker times:
| 1:42.00 | Paul Biedermann | GER | 2009 World Champs | 7/26/2009 | Rome |
| 1:46.44 | Florian Vogel | GER | German Championships | 5/5/2016 | Berlin |
| 1:46.52 | Jacob Heidtmann | GER | 2018 European Champs | 8/4/2018 | Glasgow |
Zellmann was with stellar company tonight in the form of Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys and German teammate Jacob Heidtmann, whose name appears on the aforementioned list. Rapsys clocked 1:47.02 for silver in Stockholm tonight while Hiedtmann finished in 1:47.38 for bronze.
The German now enters the world rankings at #12, while Heidtmann is already at #11 with his 1:45.83 from last weekend.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 200 FREE
RAPSYS
1.44.38
| 2 | Clyde LEWIS | AUS | 1.44.90 | 07/22 |
| 3 | Duncan SCOTT | GBR | 1.44.91 | 07/26 |
| 4 | Sun YANG | CHN | 1.44.93 | 07/23 |
| 5 | Katsuhiro MATSUMOTO | JPN | 1.45.22 | 07/23 |
Give Townley an arena x glide and he will go 1:41
No way…maybe 1:42.76 – Fourth aint squats!!!!
1.43 low this summer & Maybe a 1.42 High on the relay anchor ……