Dutch team wins silver medal in men’s medley, achieving historic world championship

2024 World Aquatics Championships

As the competition began, the Dutch record for the men’s 4×100 medley relay stood at 3:33.46 (Courtesy of: Nick Driebergen, Lennart Stekelenberg, Joeli Verlinden and Sebastian VerchulenPerformance at the 2012 Olympics.

However, on the final day of the Doha World Championship, the team Kai Van Westerling Arno Camminga, Nils Korstanje, and Stan Peinenburg I broke that record not once, but twice. First, he erased his mark in the qualifying round, winning by 0.57 seconds and advancing to the finals with a time of 3:32.89.

The Dutchman, who was swimming in lane 5 next to the American, looked like he might have a shot at gold until midway through the race. However, as Camminga and Fink and Corstanje and Harting had almost the same splits, they were unable to close the 7/10 gap with the Americans.

The Dutch swimmer won the silver medal with a time of 3:31.23, 1.66 seconds faster than her qualifying swim, erasing the record she had set a few hours earlier. This is a big moment for the Dutch men, who have never even competed in the medley relay at the past two world championships. In his last swim in 2019, Korstanje swam the backstroke (56.11 seconds).

Now they have enough depth across the four strokes to be able to put together a cohesive team. And throughout the day they showed that they are a team that can reach the finals and go the extra mile and win a medal.

I still have to drop a few seconds to compete with the full field. For example, his time here would have placed him sixth at the 2023 World Championships. However, with both qualifying and final times, they would have made it to the finals. A huge accomplishment for a country that has never fielded this team in the final quad at World Championship/Olympic level.

A silver medal in the relay rounded off a historic performance for the Netherlands. This was his sixth medal at this tournament. In the end, they won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals, placing 3rd overall in the final medal standings. This is a big event for the Dutch team. This is the highest medal ranking at the World Championships, surpassing fourth place at the 2001 Championships. In 11 interim championships, he has averaged about a 13th place finish.

Their three gold medals also matched the Dutch team’s most gold medal total at the 2001 World Championships, breaking a 10-year drought.

already talked about marit steenburgen‘s and Tess SchoutenIt went up a few days ago, Caspar Corbeau He also won a silver medal in the men’s 200m breaststroke, his first medal at the World Championships. It was a total team effort as both the men’s and women’s teams contributed to the final score. They set the tone early on with a win in the women’s 4×100 freestyle on the first day of the competition and continued to excel.

Netherlands medal history at world championships:

quick hit

• Daniel Wiffen He achieved an all-European podium finish in the men’s 1500 freestyle with an overwhelming performance. By the 100-meter mark, Wiffen was at the front of the race. He never looked back and extended his lead to over 10 seconds, breaking the world and championship record lines. He fell off the pace for both records, but improved on his personal best of 14:34.07, making him fifth fastest of all time and second fastest in European history. This was Whiffen’s second gold medal of the Games and Ireland’s second ever non-para World Championship swimming gold medal. Florian Wellbrock He qualified for Paris and won the battle for second place. david aubreyfrom 14:44.61 to 14:44.85.
• sarah sjostrom She won the women’s 50 freestyle title for the third consecutive year (fourth time in her career). She won the gold medal with a time of 23.69 seconds, just 0.08 seconds shy of the world record she swam in Fukuoka. She tied her 2017 World Championships performance for the fourth fastest time in history and now dominates the top five swims.
• Behind Sjostrom, Kasia Wasic She won the bronze medal with a time of 23.95 seconds, breaking the Polish record in the semi-finals and breaking the 24-second barrier for the first time in her career. “It means a lot,” Wasik said in a post-race interview, emotional about achieving this career goal.
• max litchfield He officially represented Team GB on the international stage for the first time winning 400IM Silver. In the final individual event of the tournament, Freya Colbert Great Britain achieved a good result by winning their second gold medal at the tournament. Anastasia Gorbenko At the wall. Both of Britain’s gold medals this week went to women. laura stevens I recently won the 200 butterfly.
• Ruta Meiltite She won the 50m breaststroke world championship for three consecutive years. She is a world record holder and her time of 29.40 seconds is her fifth fastest time of all time. “I’m so proud of what I’ve done so far and the journey I’ve been on,” she told the media after the race. Her gold medal for Lithuania became the 18th country to win a gold medal at these world championships.

Other continental and national records

• Multiple 4×100 medley relay teams set national records at this event.slovenian quartet Janja Szegel, Tara Vovk, Hana Sekti, and Neja Kranchar A new Japanese record was set in the women’s 4×100 medley relay. They swam a time of 4:07.47 in their heat, beating the old 2022 World Championship record of 4:08.51. Sekti was not the only member of the team to make a mark in Budapest.
• Both the Portuguese men’s and women’s teams set national records in the 4×100 medley relay. In fact, they tied their performance in Fukuoka to their next performance. Gabriel López, Francisco Robalo, Diogo Matos Ribeiro, and Miguel Nascimento Swimming 3:35.63. Their women’s team Camila Lobero, Ana Rodriguez, Mariana Cunha, and Francisca Martins He beat the national record by nearly two seconds with a time of 4:05.26.
• Velimir Stepanovic, Uroš Živanovic, Durde Matic, and Andrei Varna A new record was set for the Serbian men’s 4×100 medley relay. The quartet clocked a time of 3:37.98, breaking the old record of 3:38.44 set at the 2018 Mediterranean Games.

European medal standings up to day 8