The Portuguese Diogo Ribeiro qualified this Sunday for the semifinals of the 50-meter butterfly of the Fukuoka202 Swimming World Championship, in Japan, with the sixth best time of the qualifiers, swimming in 23.14 seconds.
Ribeiro, who with 22.96 is the junior world record holder in the distance, was the sixth best among the 10 preliminary series, in which the fastest was the Frenchman Maxime Grousset, runner-up in Europe, with 22.74.
In the same distance, Miguel Nascimento swam in 23.95 seconds, the 42nd best mark, as he was unable to advance to the semifinals, which are scheduled for this Sunday at 12:27 p.m. in Lisbon.
The two swimmers are already classified for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in other distances, since the 50 butterfly are not part of the Olympic program.
In the 100-meter breaststroke, Gabriel Lopes was four hundredths of the personal record, registering 1.01.69 minutes, and failed to advance from the heats, with the 32nd best time among 70 swimmers, still far from the national record, set since 2013 at 1.01.01 by Carlos Almeida.
Five more Portuguese women will take action early Monday morning: Tamila Holub and Diana Durães, in the 1500-meter freestyle, Camila Rebelo, in the 100-meter backstroke, Ana Pinho Rodrigues, in the 100-meter breaststroke, and João Costas, in the 100-meter backstroke.
The World Swimming Championships runs until next Sunday, July 30 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Source: TSF
