Gabriel Jett, Isabel Gose & Patrick Sammon Lead The Way In LEN European U23 Championships Prelims
Gabriel Jett, Isabel Gose, Patrick Sammon shone on the first morning of the inaugural LEN European U23 Championships in Dublin.
Athletes aged 19-23 are eligible to compete while each federation may enter one competitor per event who is aged 14-18.
Teams from the USA, Zimbabwe and South Africa have also entered the meet which runs from 11-13 August at the Sport Ireland: National Aquatics Centre.
Jett split 24.44/27.09 to rocket to lane four in the 100 fly in 51.53, a time that would have put him 13th at the World Championships in Fukuoka.
Tokyo Olympian Simon Bucher will be alongside him after going 51.71, the pair the only men inside 52.
Emma Sticklen of the United States heads the women’s 100 fly in 58.43 with Ellen Walshe booking lane five in 58.86.
Gose won 200 free bronze at the 2022 European Championships in Rome among a three-medal haul and she led the way in 1:58.96.
Janja Segel – who finished one place behind Gose in fourth at the Foro Italico – booked the adjacent lane for Friday’s final in 1:59.25.
Sammon – who swims at Arizona Sun Devils – was the only man inside 1:47 in the men’s 200 free to book lane four in 1:46.91 ahead of USA teammate Aaron Shackell (1:47.07).
Matt Sates – who holds the WJR in the short-course pool – was fifth through in 1:48.10.
Gabriel Jett rocketed to lane four in the 100 fly in 51.53, a time that would have put him 13th at the World Championships in Fukuoka.
Tokyo Olympian Simon Bucher will be alongside him after going 51.71, the pair the only men inside 52.
Emma Sticklen of the United States heads the women’s 100 fly in 58.43 with Ellen Walshe booking lane five in 58.86.
Jett and Sammon returned for the mixed medley relay, the latter with a 48.18 anchor as the US quartet booked top spot in 3:46.39 ahead of Israel and Britain.
Britain’s Charlie Brown led the 200 back in 1:58.23 ahead of Hunter Tapp of the USA (1:58.32) and South Africa’s Commonwealth bronze medallist Pieter Coetze (1:58.59).
Justina Kozan heads the women’s 200IM in 2:13.91 with Walshe booking her second final in 2:15.01.
Isabelle Stadden led the 50 back into the final in 28.09 and Anita Bottazzo heads the women’s 50 breast in 30.08 ahead of Mona McSharry, the Irish record-holder clocking 30.66.
Koen de Groot headed the men’s 50 breast in 27.27.