Diogo Ribeiro in the final of the 100 meter butterfly with a national record | swimming

Diogo Ribeiro in the final of the 100 meter butterfly with a national record |  swimming

Today, Friday, Diogo Ribeiro qualified for the final of the 100-meter butterfly at the World Swimming Championships held in Doha.

The Portuguese world champion swimmer in the 50 meter butterfly ensured his presence in the event, in which medals will be discussed in the 100 meter butterfly of the same style, by winning the semi-final with a time of 51.30 seconds, a new national record (the time is 15 hundredths of a second below his own national record). the previous).

This will be Diogo Ribeiro's second final in Doha, after he became world champion in the 50m butterfly.

The 100m butterfly final is scheduled to take place on Saturday at 4:42pm (Lisbon time).

In the morning, after ensuring his presence in the semi-finals of the 100-meter butterfly, 19-year-old Diogo Ribeiro swam in the 50-meter freestyle, but he was unable to qualify for the semi-finals, achieving the 18th time with a time of only 22.14 seconds. Two hundred from last place Slovakian Matej Doša (sixteenth).

Miguel Nascimento finished the 50-meter freestyle qualifiers, scoring 26th, with a time of 22.25 seconds.

In the women's 200m backstroke, Camila Rebelo, who finished eighteenth (2m13.33s), was seven-hundredths of a way from the semi-finals, while Tamela Hollub, who achieved a time of 8m45.94, finished nineteenth in the women's 200m backstroke. 800 meter freestyle qualifiers, which qualified. The first eight for the final.

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