World Cup- Budapest Day 2 as Seen Through the Lens of Marcus Chen

All photographs by Marcus Chen

Day 2 in Budapest consisted of the following events:

• Women’s 400 IM
• Men’s 1500 Freestyle
• Men’s 50 Backstroke
• Women’s 200 Freestyle
• Men’s 200 IM
• Women’s 100 Backstroke
• Men’s 50 Breaststroke
• Women’s 50 Butterfly
• Men’s 100 Freestyle
• Women’s 100 Breaststroke
• Men’s 200 Butterfly

As with Day 1, there were many ‘triple crown’ events, where the top swimmer competed and won the event on the prior two legs of the World Cup. Marcus did a fantastic job at capturing the joy of those athletes as well as the amazing World Record performance by Australia’s Kaylee McKeown in the Women’s 100 Backstroke and her 2nd World Record of the Meet!!

Women’s 400 IM

• GOLD: Boglarka Kapas (Hungary) — 4:43.14
• SILVER: Anja Crevar (Serbia) — 4:43.83
• BRONZE: Vivien Jackl (Hungary) — 4:45.95

Men’s 1500 Freestyle

• GOLD: David Betlehem (Hungary) — 14:58.04
• SILVER: Zalan Sarkany (Hungary) — 15:04.88
• BRONZE: Kristof Rasovszky (Hungary) — 15:08.00

Men’s 50 Backstroke

• GOLD: Michael Andrew (United States) — 24.64; first Triple Crown of the session
• SILVER: Isaac Cooper (Australia) — 24.82
• BRONZE: Miroslav Knedla (Czechia) — 24.85

Women’s 200 Freestyle

• GOLD: Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) — 1:54.08 World Cup record, 2nd Triple Crown of the session!
• SILVER: Barbara Seemanova (Czechia) — 1:55.79
• BRONZE: Erika Fairweather (New Zealand) — 1:56.08

Men’s 200 IM

• GOLD: Matt Sates (South Africa) — 1:57.73 3rd Triple Crown of the Session
• SILVER: Kieran Smith (United States) — 1:58.98
• BRONZE: Danas Rapsys (Lithuania) — 1:59.38

Women’s 100 Backstroke

• GOLD: Kaylee McKeown (Australia) — 57.33 *World Record* and 4th Triple Crown of the session!
• SILVER: Kylie Masse (Canada) — 59.26
• BRONZE: Ingrid Wilm (Canada) — 59.64

Men’s 50 Breaststroke

• GOLD: Qin Haiyang (China) — 26.30- 5th Triple Crown of the Session!
• SILVER: Adam Peaty (Great Britain) — 26.79
• BRONZE: Nic Fink (United States) — 26.89

Women’s 50 Butterfly

• GOLD: Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) — 25.21 6th Triple Crown!
• SILVER: Zhang Yufei (China) — 25.23
• BRONZE: Sara Junevik (Sweden) — 26.01

Men’s 100 Freestyle

• GOLD: Thomas Ceccon (Italy) — 48.41 7th Triple Crown!
• SILVER: Dylan Carter (Trinidad & Tobago) — 48.52
• BRONZE: Alessandro Miressi (Italy) — 48.62

Women’s 100 Breaststroke

• GOLD: Benedetta Pilato (Italy) — 1:05.83
• SILVER: Tes Schouten (Netherlands) — 1:06.29
• BRONZE: Mona McSharry (Ireland) — 1:06.32

Men’s 200 Butterfly

• GOLD: Matt Sates (South Africa) — 1:55.25 8th Triple Crown of the Session!
• SILVER: Richard Marton (Hungary) — 1:56.21
• BRONZE: Trenton Julian (United States) — 1:56.74