World Cup Budapest Through the Lens of Marcus Chen

All photos courtesy Marcus Chen

Budapest, Hungary October 20-22

The third leg of the World Cup series kicked off in Budapest, Hungary on Friday October 20th and our photographer extraordinaire, Marcus Chen, was there to capture the action. The biggest takeaway from Day 1 was the World Record in the Women’s 50 Backstroke by Australia’s Kaylee McKeown!

The events were competed as follows:

• Women’s 400 free
• Men’s 400 free
• Women’s 50 back
• Men’s 200 back
• Women’s 200 fly
• Men’s 100 fly
• Women’s 200 breast
• Men’s 100 breast
• Women’s 50 free
• Men’s 50 free
• Men’s 4×100 free relay

Women’s 400 Free

• GOLD: Erika Fairweather (New Zealand) – 4:02.35
• SILVER: Lani Pallister (Australia) – 4:03.43
• BRONZE: Barbora Seemanova (Czech Republic) – 4:06.09

Men’s 400 Free

• GOLD: Sam Short (Australia) – 3:44.51
• SILVER: Kieran Smith (United States) – 3:46.80
• BRONZE: Danas Rapsys (Lithuania) – 3:47.00

Women’s 50 Backstroke

• GOLD: Kaylee McKeown (Australia) – 26.86 (WORLD RECORD)
• SILVER: Ingrid Wilm (Canada) – 27.68 (TIE)
• BRONZE: Kylie Masse (Canada) – 27.68 (TIE)

Men’s 200 Backstroke

• GOLD: Roman Mityukov (Switzerland) – 1:56.96
• SILVER: Thomas Ceccon (Italy) – 1:56.97
• BRONZE: Apostolos Christou (Greece) – 1:58.62 (TIE)
• BRONZE: Adam Telegdy (Hungary) – 1:58.62 (TIE)

Women’s 200 Butterfly

• GOLD: Zhang Yufei (China) – 2:05.65 (WORLD CUP RECORD)
• SILVER: Lana Pudar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – 2:08.19
• BRONZE: Boglarka Kapas (Hungary) – 2:10.27

Men’s 100 Butterfly

• GOLD: Noe Ponti (Switzerland) – 51.38
• SILVER: Matt Sates (South Africa) – 51.66
• BRONZE: Jesse Coleman (Australia) – 51.88

Women’s 200 Breaststroke

• GOLD: Tes Schouten (Netherlands) – 2:21.52 (WORLD CUP RECORD)
• SILVER: Jenna Strauch (Australia) – 2:22.83
• BRONZE: Kristyna Horska (Czech Republic) – 2:24.62

Men’s 100 Breaststroke

• GOLD: Qin Haiyang (China) – 57.82
• SILVER: Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) – 58.68
• BRONZE: Nic Fink (United States) – 59.21

Women’s 50 Freestyle

• GOLD: Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) – 23.97
• SILVER: Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) – 24.30
• BRONZE: Bronte Campbell (Australia) – 24.42 (TIE)
• BRONZE: Cate Campbell (Australia) – 24.42 (TIE)

Men’s 50 Freestyle

• GOLD: Ben Proud (Great Britain) – 21.77
• SILVER: Michael Andrew (United States) – 21.85
• BRONZE: Isaac Cooper (Australia) – 21.92