Noè Ponti rewrote history once more with a 1:48.56 European 200 fly record at the Swiss s/c Championships in Lausanne.
Ponti took 0.08 off the previous continental standard of 1:48.64 set by Italian Alberto Razzetti en-route to silver at the 2024 short-course worlds in Budapest.
The 25-year-old is elevated to number seven performer all-time with Tomoru Honda’s 1:46.85 WR standing since October 2022.
Luca Urlando‘s 1:47.56 American record at last month’s short-course worlds trials took him second all-time behind the Japanese followed by Ilya Kharun (1:48.12) and Tyler Ray (1:48.24) as the Americans make their presence felt in the rankings. Daiya Seto (1:48.24) and Chad le Clos (1:48.27) are fifth and sixth, now followed by Ponti.
Ponti also holds the European record over 100 fly, going 47.71 at Budapest 2024, and held the 50 WR at 21.32 since Budapest before Egor Kornev lowered it to 211.28.
more to follow…
