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Georgia Davies has added a gold medal to the European record she set in the 50m backstroke at Glasgow 2018.
Davies swam a new European best time of 27.21 in her qualifying heat yesterday morning, and she was almost on that pace again tonight during day three of the 2018 European Swimming Championships.
Davies won in 27.23 to claim her third European gold medal. Her previous two came in the 4x100m mixed and 4x100m medley relays in London two years ago.
She was a bronze medallist in the 50m backstroke at the 2018 Commonwealth Games earlier this year, having won gold at Glasgow four years previously.
Davies said: “I never would have expected the record to go in the heat and I think that meant I put a bit of extra pressure on myself and thought that people were going to expect me to go faster.
“When it comes to the final times are just so irrelevant. You just have to swim your own race and it’s about who can get their hand on the wall first.
“I didn’t mind about the time tonight but I really wanted to win.”
The British men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team added a second gold medal of the night for Great Britain in the evening’s final race.
James Guy, who had scratched his 200m fly final moments earlier to focus on the relay, brought it home after great work by Calum Jarvis, Duncan Scott and Tom Dean.
Earlier, Scott had earned himself a silver medal in the men’s 100m freestyle.
European Swimming Championships 2018 Results – Day 3 – Afternoon Session
Men’s 1500m Freestyle – Final
German Florian Wellbrock picked up the first gold medal of tonight’s session, winning the 1500m freestyle final in 14:36.18.
It was a closely fought battle with Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Romanchuk, who claimed the silver medal in 14:36.88. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri took bronze.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Florian Wellbrock (Germany) 14:36.15
SILVER: Mykhaylo Romanchuk (Ukraine) 14:36.88
BRONZE: Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) 14:42.85
Men’s 100m Freestyle – Final
Duncan Scott gained Britain’s first medal of the evening, taking silver in the 100m freestyle final.
Scott touched the wall in 48.23 to just pip France’s Mehdy Metella by 0.01 seconds. The gold medal went to Italian Alessandro Miressi in 48.01.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Alessandro Miressi (Italy) 48.01
SILVER: Duncan Scott (Britain) 48.23
BRONZE: Mehdy Metella (France) 48.24
Women’s 100m Breaststroke – Final
Yuliya Efimova broke her own championship record on her way to a gold medal in the 100m breaststroke.
Efimova beat her previous championship best of 1:05.87, touching the wall in 1:05.53 to take gold from Ruta Meilutyte and Arianna Castiglioni.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Yuliya Efimova (Russia) 1:05.53
SILVER: Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) 1:06.26
BRONZE: Arianna Castiglioni (Italy) 1:06.54
Men’s 100m Backstroke – Semi-Finals
Russian duo Kliment Kolesnikov and Evgeny Rylov were the two semi-final winners in the 100m breaststroke tonight.
Kolesnikov won the first semi in 52.95, which shaved 0.02 seconds off his World and European junior record, while Rylov took the second in 53.20.
Brodie Williams (54.60) and Luke Greenbank (54.65) will advance no further.
Women’s 200m Butterfly – Semi-Finals
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Alys Thomas won her semi-final to advance to the 200m butterfly final.
Thomas won in 2:07.64, and will go into the finals as the second fastest qualifier behind semi-final one winner, Franziska Hentke of Germany.
Men’s 200m Breaststroke – Semi-Finals
Ross Murdoch and James Wilby will both feature in the final of the men’s 200m breaststroke tomorrow.
Murdoch won the first semi-final in a time of 2:08.57, while Wilby was third in the second race in 2:09.59.
Women’s 50m Backstroke – Final
Georgia Davies was crowned European champion after winning 50m backstroke gold at Glasgow tonight.
Davies, who set a new European record of 27.21 in her qualifying heat yesterday, posted a 27.23 this time to win the gold medal.
She beat Russian Anastasiia Fesikova who claimed silver in 27.31, and Finland’s Mimosa Jallow who took bronze in 27.70.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Georgia Davies (Britain) 27.23
SILVER: Anastasiia Fesikova (Russia) 27.31
BRONZE: Mimosa Jallow (Finland) 27.70
Men’s 200m IM – Semi-Finals
Max Litchfield and Mark Szaranek both claimed runners-up finishes in each of the 200m individual medley semi-finals to qualify.
Litchfield clocked 1:57.62 in the first semi to finish just behind Germany’s Philip Heintz, while Szaranek touched the wall in 1:58.22 behind Swiss swimmer Jeremy Desplanches.
Women’s 200m Freestyle – Semi-Finals
Holly Hibbott and Ellie Faulkner have both made it through to the final of the women’s 200m freestyle.
Hibbot swam a time of 1:58.46 to finish third in semi-final one behind Charlotte Bonnet and Valeriia Salamatina, while Faulkner was fourth in the other race, clocking 1:58.71.
Men’s 200m Butterfly – Final
Kristof Milak set a new championship record of 1:52.79 as he won gold for Hungary in the men’s 200m butterfly final.
British swimmer James Guy had qualified for this final, but decided to withdraw to instead focus on his relay duties in the next of tonight’s races.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Kristof Milak (Hungary) 1:52.79
SILVER: Tamas Kenderesi (Hungary) 1:54.36
BRONZE: Federico Burdisso (Italy) 1:55.97
Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – Final
Great Britain won the gold medal with a tremendous display to finish this evening’s session in Glasgow.
Calum Jarvis, Duncan Scott, Tom Dean and James Guy delivered the goods to win in 7:05.32, holding off challenges from Russia and Italy.
Guy, who had withdrawn from the 200m fly final that preceded this race, was tasked with bringing the gold home, and did so emphatically with a 200m time of 1:45.60.
MEDALS:
GOLD: Great Britain 7:05.32
SILVER: Russia 7:06.66
BRONZE: Italy 7:07.58
European Swimming Championships 2018 Results – Day 3 – Morning Session
Men’s 200m Individual Medley – Heats
Great Britain claimed a clean sweep of the top three qualifying times across this morning’s four preliminary heats.
Mark Szaranek won the third heat in 1:58.07 from Max Litchfield in second with a time of 1:58.12. Those times mean Duncan Scott will miss out despite winning the fourth heat in 1:58.57.
Tom Dean also posted a time that would have been good enough for qualification, had two of his British team mates not already taken the positions. Dean clocked 2:00.32 and was ninth fastest overall.
Women’s 200m Butterfly – Heats
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Alys Thomas made a great start to her European bid in the 200m butterfly, posting the fastest time of the morning.
Thomas won heat two in 2:07.86 and was more than a second clear of her nearest challenger, German swimmer Franziska Hentke.
Emily Large and Charlotte Atkinson also swam well in heat one, but it was Large who just nicked the second British spot in the semi-finals. She swam a 2:11.07, while Atkinson was just behind in 2:11.28.
Men’s 100m Backstroke – Heats
Luke Greenbank and Brodie Williams booked their places in the 100m backstroke semi-finals.
Greenbank was the eighth fastest qualifier with a time of 54.47, while Williams swam a time of 54.83 which was just enough to take Britain’s second place from Nick Pyle (54.89).
Women’s 200m Freestyle – Heats
Holly Hibbott and Ellie Faulkner are Britain’s two qualifiers for the semi-finals of the women’s 200m freestyle.
Hibbott finished second in the fourth of six qualifying heats, with a time of 1:58.92 which was the fourth fastest of this morning’s preliminary times.
Faulkner did just enough to claim the second British spot, touching in 1:59.19 which meant no further involvement for Kathryn Greenslade (1:59.26).
Men’s 200m Breaststroke – Heats
Ross Murdoch and James Wilby have advanced to the semi-finals of the 200m breaststroke.
Murdoch finished as runner-up in heat three in a time of 2:10.30, while Wilby won heat two in a slightly slower time of 2:10.81. The pair qualified fifth and sixth fastest respectively.
Russia dominated and filled the fastest three positions. The two swimmers to advance are Anton Chupkov and Kirill Prigoda, who did the one-two in heat four.
ROSS MURDOCH REACTION: “This morning was a good heats swim, I’ve learnt my lessons over the last few years.
“I don’t know what it is about heat swims, but they always feel really good. When I stick to what my stroke rate is, normally on the way out I always end up way too fast so I just had to take it really slow, build the back end and see what I can come away with – and I did come away with a good time.
“People have said to me ‘You must have been gutted not to win at the Commonwealth Games’ and I was disappointed with that swim, but not because of the result. It was to do with myself and the way I had executed my race plan so when I look back at the 100m race there was nothing wrong with that race plan – it was my fastest back end ever so at the end of the day I put myself in the best place possible, but it just turns out James is having an absolutely outstanding year.
“There have been quite a few times where I have been on the right side of the result from James’ perspective. Times when I’ve beaten him by a couple of hundreds of a second, so it’s about time he got some back!”
Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay – Heats
Great Britain’s team of Stephen Milne, Cameron Kurle, Tom Dean and Calum Jarvis won the first heat in 7:11.91 to advance to this evening’s final.
Russia won the second semi-final in a faster time of 7:09.00.