European Swimming Championships: Bilas in the 50m semifinals. butterfly

Another Greek qualification to the semi-finals, the third in a row after those of Markou and Dutunakiin the morning program of day 4, at the European Swimming Championships in a 25-meter pool, held in Otopeni, Romania.

THE Stergios Bilas with a time of 23.18 he took the last privileged position (16th) in the 50m qualifiers. butterfly and thus he will have the opportunity in the afternoon (19:41) to do another race and seek to improve even more his performance, which is already recorded as a pan-Hellenic record in the new age category of young men (K23). Leading the qualifiers was European 100m champion Noah Ponty of Switzerland with 22.17 ahead of 50m title and world record holder Sebastian Szabo of Hungary (22.40).

In total, the afternoon program includes five Greek entries: at 18:00 Andreas Vazaios will compete in the 200m final. mixed individual and at 18:13 Apostolos Christou in the 100m final. backstroke, while the 200m semi-finals will follow. men’s freestyle (18:28) with Dimitris Markos, in the 100m. women’s butterfly (18:38) with Anna Dutunaki and in the 50m. men’s butterfly (19:41) with Stergios Bila.