The 4X100m team. men’s freestyle managed to get the qualification for them Paris Olympicsbut also to pass to the final of the competition for Doha World Swimming Championshipswhich will take place at 19:32 Greek time.
The Apostolos Christou, Stergios Bilas, Kristian Golomeev and Andreas Vazaios they took the fifth place in the qualifying with a time of 3:14.33 and brought Greece to a team event final, for the first time after 19 years and the two consecutive entries of the 4X200m. free, in 2003 in Barcelona and in 2005 in Montreal.
This time, all four Greek swimmers gave their best to achieve the desired result. Christou swam the first 100m in under 49 seconds (48.92), Bilas, despite the fact that he had also competed in the 50m a little earlier. butterfly, he crossed in 48.81 followed by an impressive 47.86 by Golomeev, which lifted the Greek team to second place in the 2nd heat, behind only Italy. Vasaeus finished the race in 48.74, behind Great Britain and China, but that no longer mattered.
The fastest qualifying time was achieved by USA (although they are competing with an emergency composition, due to the many absences) with 3:12.32 and were followed by Italy with 3:12.96, h Great Britain (which fell full, as last year it had been canceled and was in danger of being left out of the Olympics) with 3:13.96 and the China with 3:14.07. The final eight were completed by Serbia with 3:14.42, h Spain with 3:14.71 and h Hungary with 3:14.73. THE Sweden she was ninth in 3:15.37, but with that time she managed to overtake Poland and get the last ticket to Paris.
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