Lana Pudar rocketed into the top 10 of the 100 fly rankings with a Bosnian record of 56.95 en-route to gold at the European Juniors in Belgrade. It was also a championship record and cut 0.44secs from the previous mark of 57.39 that stood to Anastasia Shkurdai of Belarus since 2019. While Pudar was rewriting the national record books, Oleksandr Zheltyakov lowered his Ukrainian 200 back standard as he made his first journey inside 1:57, going 1:56.49 to head the semis. That’s 0.66 outside Kliment Kolesnikov‘s championship record of 1:55.83 set in 2018 and makes him the 12th-fastest performer in the world this year, his time the 16th swiftest. Vlad Stancu set a Romanian record of 15:00.51, cutting 4.96secs from his time of 15:05.47 en-route to gold at last year’s edition in his hometown of Otopeni. Pudar won silver at the 2022 European Juniors behind Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium, a year after taking the title at the 2021 edition. Weeks later, the 17-year-old went on to take bronze over 100 and gold in the 200 fly at the Europeans in Rome. |