Cate Campbell Puts Down 24.0 50 Free at FINA World Cup Kazan; Hosszu Collects 300th World Cup Win

Cate Campbell remained the queen of consistency with another 24.0 50 free in Kazan. Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant

Cate Campbell of Australia remained the queen of consistency on Friday at the FINA World Cup in Kazan as she swam a 24.08 in the 50 free to win yet another title on her European tour this fall. Campbell has been extremely busy this month as she began her trek in Budapest on October 4 at the World Cup and continued on to Berlin a week later. Then she flew to Dallas for her first ISL meet with the London Roar and then back to Budapest last week. Rather than go back to Australia for some much needed rest, she stayed in Europe in Kazan, Russia for some more racing at the World Cup this week.

That travel schedule would exhaust anybody, but apparently not Campbell, who swam under 24.1 this year for the fifth time. She was a 24.00 at the FINA Champions Series in April which remains her season best.

Campbell actually swam faster here than she did in winning the bronze medal in the 50 free at the World Championships in July when she was a 24.11 behind Simone Manuel and Sarah Sjostrom. She finished ahead of Sweden’s Michelle Coleman (24.28) and Russia’s Mariia Kameneva (24.32). Coleman was just off her 24.26 best time from the Berlin World Cup a couple weeks ago, but she has been consistently getting faster at each World Cup stop since she was a 24.9 at World Championships.

There were a couple other swimmers to make the insane trip that Cate Campbell has made this fall as Katinka Hosszu and Michael Andrew are also coming off four straight weeks of racing around the world in the World Cup and ISL. Hosszu collected her 300th World Cup win of her career with a 2:08.23 in the 200 fly, winning ahead of Zsuzsanna Jakabos (2:08.76), who has swum with Hosszu for a number of those 300 wins. Surprisingly, that was the only event Hosszu swam in the session as she has been known to pack in as many swims as she can.

Andrew was second in the 100 fly (51.86) behind Russia’s Mikhail Vekovishchev (51.56).

Overall, the FINA World Cup circuit this fall has continued to attract some of the top level swimmers, but the meets have failed to attain any sort of depth. Only four swims in the whole meet breached the 910 points level, while 60% of swims from the nine finals did not include swims of more than 850 points, a level achieved at warm-up events galore the world over on almost every weekend of the year. For reference, 910 points is roughly the average of what the eighth place performances scored at the World Championships this summer.

A regular feature of the World Cup this season has been for the last 2 to 4 places in finals to be taken up by swimmers racing the pace of the best in the world from the 50 years ago. Olympic legends Shane Gould and Roland Matthes would still be competitive in today’s World Cup over 40 years after they exited the pool for the final time in the 1970s.

Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys, who turned down the ISL to maximize his earnings in the World Cup and took advantage of the long course venue, swam a 3:44.60 in winning the 400 free. Rapsys had some of the worst luck at the World Championships this summer, placing fourth in the 400 free and getting locked out of a bronze medal by 0.27 seconds, and touching first in the 200 free only to get disqualified for flinching at the start. Rapsys has also been fairly consistent this fall, just like Cate Campbell, as he swam a 3:43.36 at the FINA Champions Series in May and has been under 3:45 four more times since then.

Russia’s Anton Chupkov, the world record holder in the 200 breast, swam a 58.94 in winning the 100 breast final over Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands, who broke his own Dutch record at 58.98. Chupkov lowered his own best time as he was eighth in the Worlds final at 59.19 earlier this year. Chupkov’s time put him eighth in the world this year as he seems to be improving his 100 speed. Kamminga right behind Chupkov broke 59 seconds for the first time as he was a 59.05 at the Budapest World Cup. Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki (59.23) finished third in the Kazan race.

Top 10 World Rankings 2019 (Men’s 100 Breast)

56.88, Adam Peaty, GBR
58.29, Ilya Shymanovich, BLR
58.46, James Wilby, GBR
58.63, Yan Zibei, CHN
58.89, Yasuhiro Koseki, JPN
58.93, Andrew Wilson, USA
58.94, Anton Chupkov, RUS
58.98, Arno Kamminga, NED
59.03, Dmitriy Balandin, KAZ
59.05, Fabio Scozzoli, ITA

Results from the rest of the session

Women’s 400 Free

1	EGOROVA	Anna	RUS	4:08.93
2	SALAMATINA	Valeriia	RUS	4:09.32
3	SHERIDAN	Mikkayla	AUS	4:11.35
4	KAHLER	Marlene	AUT	4:11.84
5	ANDRUSENKO	Veronika	RUS	4:12.77
6	PRIKHODKO	Irina	RUS	4:14.44
7	BAKLAKOVA	Mariia	RUS	4:16.59
8	MORIYAMA	Yukimi	JPN	4:19.42

Men’s 400 Free

1	RAPSYS	Danas	LTU	3:44.60
2	NIKITIN	Anton	RUS	3:47.60
3	KRASNYKH	Aleksandr	RUS	3:48.28
4	FEDOROV	Aleksandr	RUS	3:50.72
5	DRUZHININ	Ilia	RUS	3:52.74
6	POTAPOV	Iaroslav	RUS	3:52.88
7	KOLYASOV	Maksim	CLB	3:55.34
8	KURACHKIN	Kanstantsin	BLR	3:58.80

Women’s 50 Back

Kira Toussaint from 🇳🇱 has impressed throughout the World Cup series and she once again proved she is not easy to beat in the Women’s 50m Backstroke 🏊‍♀. Silver went to local girl Mariia Kameneva and bronze to 🇧🇷 thanks to Etiene Medeiros. #SWC19 #SWIMMING pic.twitter.com/O4iTtGmEIT

— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) November 1, 2019

1	TOUSSAINT	Kira	NED	27.89
2	KAMENEVA	Mariia	RUS	27.95
3	MEDEIROS	Etiene	BRA	28.12
4	FESIKOVA	Anastasiia	RUS	28.13
5	MCKEOWN	Kaylee	AUS	28.17
6	SEEBOHM	Emily	AUS	28.24
7	VASKINA	Daria	RUS	28.34
8	JEONG	Soeun	KOR	29.00

Men’s 200 Back

1	MARTIN	Daniel	ROU	1:58.42
2	SUNAMA	Keita	JPN	1:59.17
3	TARASEVICH	Grigory	RUS	1:59.88
4	LEE	Juho	KOR	2:00.07
5	TATARENKO	Pavel	CLB	2:00.12
6	TOUMARKIN	Yakov	ISR	2:00.14
7	TOMAC	Mewen	FRA	2:02.05
8	MALTSEV	Dmitry	CLB	2:02.24

Women’s 200 Fly

https://twitter.com/fina1908/status/1190306595625934848

1	HOSSZU	Katinka	HUN	2:08.23
2	JAKABOS	Zsuzsanna	HUN	2:08.76
3	AN	Sehyeon	KOR	2:10.69
4	HUFNAGL	Claudia	AUT	2:10.99
5	PARK	Sujin	KOR	2:12.23
6	VERRASZTO	Evelin	HUN	2:12.63
7	MARKOVA	Anastasiia	RUS	2:14.28
8	EGOROVA	Polina	RUS	2:15.26

Men’s 100 Fly

The home crowd were treated to some fine swims from the local athletes and in the Men’s 100m Fly, Mikhail Vekovishchev managed to keep Michael Andrew of the United States at bay, to take gold for the host nation 🇷🇺 💻 https://t.co/bEozhdW5qV #SWC19 #SWIMMING pic.twitter.com/7J4QQrUzjn

— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) November 1, 2019

1	VEKOVISHCHEV	Mikhail	RUS	51.56
2	ANDREW	Michael	USA	51.86
3	SZABO	Szebasztian	HUN	51.97
4	PAKHOMOV	Daniil	CLB	52.11
5	HEINTZ	Philip	GER	52.32
6	GONCHE	Matheus	BRA	52.67
7	KUDRYASHOV	Vladimir	CLB	53.29
8	SUNAMA	Keita	JPN	55.16

Women’s 200 Breast

1	TEMNIKOVA	Mariia	RUS	2:24.10
2	CHIKUNOVA	Daria	RUS	2:24.56
3	SIMONOVA	Vitalina	CLB	2:28.32
4	ZMUSHKA	Alina	BLR	2:28.37
5	GUTTMANN	Elena	AUT	2:30.43
6	MCKEOWN	Kaylee	AUS	2:31.42
7	SONG	Zixin	CHN	2:33.78
8	BASISTO	Anastasia	MDA	2:36.24

Men’s 100 Breast

1	CHUPKOV	Anton	RUS	58.94
2	KAMMINGA	Arno	NED	58.98
3	KOSEKI	Yasuhiro	JPN	59.23
4	LIMA	Felipe	BRA	59.96
5	SIDLAUSKAS	Andrius	LTU	1:00.45
6	WILLIAMSON	Sam	AUS	1:00.51
7	PACKARD	Jake	AUS	1:00.58
8	NIKOLAEV	Andrei	RUS	1:00.71

Women’s 50 Free

1	CAMPBELL	Cate	AUS	24.08
2	COLEMAN	Michelle	SWE	24.28
3	KAMENEVA	Mariia	RUS	24.32
4	CAMPBELL	Bronte	AUS	24.47
5	SURKOVA	Arina	RUS	24.80
6	OTTESEN	Jeanette	DEN	25.02
7	FELSNER	Jessica	GER	25.15
8	GALLAGHER	Erin	RSA	25.27

Men’s 50 Free

https://twitter.com/fina1908/status/1190335247801634818

1	MOROZOV	Vladimir	RUS	21.71
2	ANDREW	Michael	USA	22.03
3	LOBANOVSKIJ	Maxim	HUN	22.06
4	MATSUI	Kosuke	JPN	22.10
5	GRINEV	Vladislav	RUS	22.25
6	YANG	Jaehoon	KOR	22.38
7	PUTS	Jesse	NED	22.41
8	FESIKOV	Sergei	RUS	22.52

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