By Apostolo Christos to easily secure the ticket for the 50m semi-finals. supine and him Dimitris Marko to achieve a great pan-Hellenic record in the 400m. free, opened his curtain in the morning European Swimming Championship in a 25-meter poolhosted in Otopeni, Romania.
Christou started his races with a rather relaxed 23.61 in the 50m. backstroke, which was enough to give him 9th place in the qualifiers and the ticket to the semi-finals, which will take place at 6:25 p.m. The Greek swimmer has a record of 22.87 from the European Championships in Kazan in 2021, and with a similar performance he will have no problem making it to tomorrow’s (6/12) final. The fastest in the morning was Frenchman Meuwen Tomac with 23.16.
Dimitris Markos broke the Panhellenic record in the 400m. free but failed to match his great performance with a qualification as he was briefly left out of the afternoon final. The 22-year-old champion finished in 3:40.63, improving by almost four seconds the record (3:44.54) held by Nikos Xylouris, the current commissioner of swimming of the KOE and member of the Plenary Assembly of the EOE, from the corresponding event in 2006 in Helsinki. With this time, Marcos was ranked 10th, with the final eight “closing” 22 centimeters lower, at the 3:40.41 of the Italian Marco De Tuglio. Lithuanian Danas Rapsis was the fastest of the qualifiers with 3:39.19.
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