Samorin 2025: Tuncelli in frame for third title as Vojko raises home medal hopes on last day at EA Junior Swimming Championships
Kuzey Tuncelli will seek a third title in tonight’s concluding session of the European Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships after qualifying for the men’s 400m freestyle final.
The 17-year-old Turkish athlete, who successfully defended his 800m and 1500m titles here, setting a Championship record in the former event, looked – understandably – a little weary as he posted the sixth fastest time of 3:53.65. But he will give one final effort to reach the podium in an event where he just missed a medal last year.
Fastest into the final was Germany’s Johannes Liebmann, who is after a complete medal set having already earned 1500m silver and 800m bronze.
He clocked 3:51.41 ahead of Slovakia’s Milan Vojko, who clocked 3:52.70 to raise home hopes of a first medal at these excellent Championships within the national Olympic Training Centre.
Austria’s men’s 200m freestyle gold medallist Christian Giefing was next fastest on 3:52.90 ahead of neutral athletes Egor Babinich and Grigorii Vekovishchev.
Emma Giannelli of Italy, in search of gold after taking silver in women’s 800m and 1500m, topped qualifying for tonight’s women’s 400m freestyle final in 4:13.83.
Neutral athletes Kseniia Misharina and Sofia Diakova, the women’s 800m freestyle champion, filled the next two places in 4:13.86 and 4:14.21 respectively, with Belgium’s women’s 200m butterfly gold medallist Sarah Dumont fourth fastest in 4:14.82.
Spain qualified fastest for the women’s 4x100m medley final in 4:07.99 followed by Italy on 4:08.37 and Poland on 4:08.71.
Fastest qualifiers in the men’s 4x100m medley were Israel – still to earn a first medal here – in 3:40.81 followed by Italy on 3:41.24 and Turkiye on 3:41.45.
Mike Rowbottom for European Aquatics
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