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France 24
a day ago
- Sport
- France 24
Qin beats Olympic champ Martinenghi for 100m breaststroke world gold
Qin recovered from a slow start to come home in 58.23sec, beating Italy's Martinenghi on 58.58 and Kyrgyzstan's Denis Petrashov on 58.88. Qin swept all three breaststroke races at the 2023 world championships in Japan, breaking the 200m world record. But he crashed and burned at last year's Paris Olympics, finishing seventh after leading the 100m breaststroke final at the turn. The 26-year-old had no such problems in Singapore as he delivered China's first swimming medal of the championships. "I'm so appreciative for tonight, it's been a long time," said Qin. "Finally, I've come back." Qin went into the race in ominous form, having swum the two fastest times of the year and topped the semi-finals ahead of Martinenghi. Martinenghi was initially disqualified in the semi-finals but was later reinstated for the final. The Italian said he had been sick through the night and was "really proud" of his performance. "That silver is like a gold for me," he said. "I've got nothing inside me, I've got only my heart and my brain." The race did not feature Paris Olympic joint silver-medallists Adam Peaty and Nic Fink. Britain's Peaty, who owned the 14 fastest times in the history of the 100m breaststroke heading into Singapore, decided to skip the world championships. American Fink is also taking a break from competition. Qin's preparations for the Paris Olympics were thrown into turmoil when he was implicated in a major doping scandal months before the Games. A report named Qin among 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a prescription heart drug ahead of the pandemic-delayed 2021 Tokyo Olympics. They were not sanctioned after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accepted the argument of Chinese authorities that the positive tests were caused by contaminated food.
BBC News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Unassuming' star Nowacki ends with eight Island Games golds
Jersey swimmer Filip Nowacki has ended the Island Games with eight gold medals. The 17-year-old European junior champion twice smashed the Island Games record to win the 200m breaststroke on the final day of taken more than four-and-a-half seconds off the record in the heats Nowacki set another new record of 2:05.89 as he cruised to victory in the finished almost 13 seconds ahead of silver medal-winning teammate Oscar Dodds as he set a new mark almost nine seconds quicker than the old record set by Faroe Islands' Olympian Pal Joensen set in 2015. It was the latest success for the 17-year-old who has the potential to be one of Jersey's finest-ever this month he won two gold medals and a silver at the European Junior Championships as he dominated the breaststroke set a new European junior record in the 200m breaststroke while he also took gold in the 100m breaststroke - breaking the British junior record held by multiple Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Adam came a few months after he won his first senior British medals having been included in the Team GB world class programme for the first time."He comes here, he performs well, but you wouldn't know he's at the level he's at, he sort of just mucks in with everyone," Jersey swim coach Nathan Jegou told BBC Radio Jersey."He's very unassuming, dedicates himself to being the best sportsman he can be and we're proud to have him with us."He's put himself on the map. He's top 10 in the world probably at the moment." That talent has seen him win a total of 11 medals of all colours in the short-course event in Orkney. If he were an island on his own as of Thursday evening Nowacki would be seventh on the medals table lying in-between hosts Orkney and the Isle of despite seven individual golds, he says his best memory has been breaking the Island Games record with his team-mates to win the 4x100m medley relay on Wednesday."I think yesterday's relay really topped it," he said."To win and to break a championship record is truly special, so to be able to stand at the top with the boys that I've trained with in the past is truly amazing."While the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is the longer term goal for Nowacki, next summer's Commonwealth Games is very much on his radar. With Jersey competing as a nation in their own right in Glasgow, Nowacki will have the chance to race at his first senior international meet against the best swimmers from the British home nations as well countries including Australia, Canada and South Africa."Peak male performance is not until your mid-20s, he's 17, so he's in no rush and we keep trying to tell him that," added Jegou, who has coached Nowacki since he was 11 in Jersey before encouraging him to move to Millfield School last year. "I think coming to these sort of events allows that to happen as well, that's why I think the Commonwealth Games next year will be good."But his coach says the Island Games has been a great first experience of a multi-sport event."Sometimes being an elite sportsman can be hard work, you can be quite isolated, especially in individual sports," Jegou said."So he's here with 15 other Jersey people that he's grown up with pretty much, and he loves that, so as long as he keeps enjoying it, who knows?" Elsewhere Clara Ginnis showed she was the class distance swimmer of these games as she won the women's 800m freestyle by almost six seconds from compatriot Hannah Sterry. She added the 800m title to the 40mm and 1500m freestyle gold medals she had won earlier in the games. Sam Sterry won silver in the men's 400m freestyle while Megan Hansford, Hannah Sterry, Erin Goodbody and Ellie Grant helped Jersey win bronze in the women's 4x100m women medley relay.
ITV News
10-07-2025
- Sport
- ITV News
Jersey swimmer breaks British Junior Record previously held by Adam Peaty
A swimmer from Jersey has broken a British Junior Record held by Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty, at the European Junior Championships in Slovakia. Filip Nowacki, 17, completed the Men's 100m Breaststroke in 59.59 seconds, beating Peaty's time of 59.92 seconds. Nowacki now stands as the third fastest 17 & Under 100m breaststroker in history. The teenager, who now trains at Millfield School, spent his age group days under the guidance of Nathan Jegou with the Jersey Tigers Swimming Club. He has also broken the European Junior Record in the 200m breaststroke, clocking a time of 2:09.11 minutes in the semi-final, breaking the record that had been set in the previous race by Turkey's Doruk Yogurtcuoglu, who swam 2:10:63. His time would have placed him in contention for a spot in the Olympic final in Paris 2024, demonstrating Nowacki is performing at an Olympic-calibre. Speaking after the event Nowacki said, "the team speaks for itself, I'm really happy with the outcome there and it's a really strong team so I'm really pleased". The rising star has secured four Gold medals at this years European Junior Championships: Gold in the Men's 200m Breaststroke (breaking the European Junior Record). Gold in the Men's 100m Breaststroke (breaking the British junior record). Gold in the Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay (contributing to a new Championship and European junior record). Gold in the Men's 4x100m Medley Relay. The teenager won three medals at the British Senior Championships earlier this year.
BBC News
08-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Nowacki 'shocked' to break European junior record
Filip Nowacki says he could not believe that he had broken the European junior record at 200m 17-year-old from Jersey twice broke the old continental mark on his way to winning gold at the European junior Championships in Team GB swimmer also won gold in the 100m breaststroke in 59.59 seconds - breaking the British junior record held by multiple Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Adam Peaty. Nowacki, who won two bronze medals at the British senior championships earlier this year, also took silver in the 50m breaststroke. "I was completely shocked to be honest," he said of the European record he broke for the first time in the 200m breaststroke in the semi-final. "I knew I was in good shape coming into the championships, but I didn't know I was going to break the record."So when I looked at the board after the semi-final, I was just completely shocked and a massive wave of emotion, it was something truly special that I'll remember for a while." Nowacki is hoping he will be selected for the World Junior Championships in Romania in would be his biggest global event since he won three medals at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games."I think it'd be the biggest competition that I've been to," he told BBC Sport."The Commonwealth Youth Games were pretty big, that was very much international - I know there's no America but, Australia, Canada and all the big nations from around the world were there, and the fact that it was on the other side of the planet as well I found that one quite big as well."Nowacki has returned to Jersey for a short while before he links up with his team-mates for the Island Games in Orkney. Nowacki will swim in all the breaststroke events, as well as the 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley and some relays as he looks to add more medals to his collection. "I missed 2023 in Guernsey so I'm super happy to spend some time with my friends here on the island that I haven't seen in a while due to boarding school and hopefully I'll swim fast again," he says of the 2025 Island Games."I'm just looking forward to the vibes and the atmosphere."It's been a while since I've competed for Jersey, so I'm just really looking forward to spending some time with my friends and all swimming quick at the pool, not really accolades and golds at this moment in time."
Times
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Hurrah, budgie smugglers are back! I wear mine supertight
Budgie smugglers are back! So says The New York Times, only it prudishly calls them 'swim briefs'. But whichever, the fact is, for some of us — well, me and Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast, anyway — wearing smugs never went away. Here's why. When do you wear swimming trunks, eh? Well, first and foremost, to state the obvious, for swimming. And for proper swimming, such as I do, you want tight and skimpy. I don't swim often enough or well enough to merit a pair of competition-standard 'jammers', the longer version of smugglers favoured by the likes of Adam Peaty. But I'm sufficiently serious about hydrodynamics to not want to thrash up and down the lido in baggy board shorts, the pockets all inside out and bulging with trapped air. Score one for smugs. The other main activity you do while wearing swimming trunks is you don't have sufficient privacy to go naked, like I do on my roof, observed only by passing 747s circling east London before heading upriver to Heathrow, then you want as little covering material as is necessary to not get arrested. You want to maximise the tanning area, right? And minimise the tan line? I see guys sunbathing in shorts, sometimes quite long shorts, and I think, 'Lightweight.' Go hard or go home. I draw the line at a thong, though. Bit too close to sumo wrestler for comfort. Plus, as an 11-year-old, I was traumatised by the sight of an elderly Frenchman on a beach in Corsica wearing nothing but a lime-green thong, skinny mahogany buttocks sagging down for all to see. It was not a good look, especially as the front of the thong, the pouch, was made of mesh. Dirty old goat. Third, counterintuitively given their name (you might call it the Budgie Paradox), smugglers are actually less revealing of what must not be revealed than their looser, more voluminous competitors. Fair enough, the genital outline is undeniably defined, with little left to the imagination. And yet, thanks to this very smuggler snugness, you are in no danger of what I learnt from Friends the Americans call 'showing brain'. Basically, your goolies aren't going to suddenly squirm free of captivity and burst out into the fresh air to frighten people, not when held in the rigorous containment provided by the Tom Daley-style micro-trunks I favour. So, while they might be more suggestive, smugglers do as promised and hide the contraband, never bringing it up on deck to shout at customs, 'It's a fair cop! Where do I pay the duty?' Obviously, you've got to monitor the state of your elastic. Growing up, we had a dear family friend we'd visit every summer in Cambridge. Having spent most of his life in the tropics, this chap — a natural eccentric to start with — had become more than a little disinhibited. Punting on the Cam, he wore smugglers so loose they qualified more as a loincloth. Each time this chap pushed off the riverbed with his, ahem, pole, first one testicle, then the other, would swing rhythmically into view. Push, left testicle, push, right testicle, like a pendulum. It was mesmeric. No one seemed to mind. They were less puritanical times, the Seventies. On that same holiday to Corsica, 1976, the one where I encountered the lime-green mesh thong, I also discovered women sunbathing topless. That remained the norm around the Mediterranean — well, the European bit of the Mediterranean — until the early Nineties. If you'd asked me then, I'd have predicted that by 2025, on a hot day, never mind the beach, we'd probably all be coming to the office or going shopping naked, or at a minimum in just shoes and pants. That was before I realised social progress doesn't move in a straight line, but in peaks and troughs. And also before I realised that coming to the office in just your knickers is not in fact the stuff of social progress, but individual nightmares. Oh yes, we have these taboos for a reason. Years ago, at an especially dull Labour Party conference in Blackpool, I bunked off to go for a swim at a swanky golf hotel in the suburbs. Lacking a costume, but with a pair of tight black underpants to hand, I risked wearing them. All went well until, showering poolside, in full view of a dozen ancient golf widows, I looked down to see my penis hanging impudently through the flies of my improvised trunks. Not good. A dangerously quick 180 to restore modesty, followed by a hasty exit, and, still damp, a retreat to the railway station to get the hell out of town. I learnt my lesson. On the road, some colleagues keep their golf clubs in the car boot in the hope of a cheeky nine holes post-deadline. Others pack their trainers and gym kit. I always travel with a pair of emergency smugs. They take up remarkably little room.
