Live David Popovici fights for gold in the final at 200 m free from the World Natation Championships »Time and Television

• The final 200 -meter sample final from the Singapore World Cup will be broadcast in LiveText format on GSP.ro and on TV on two stations: TVR 1 and TVR Sport.

• Roxana Fleșeru, the reporter of the Sports Gazette, is in Singapore, from where the best information about the World Natation Championships.

The final from 200 meters free from Singapore belongs to young people, seven out of eight swimmers being born after 2000.

live from 14:02 »David Popovici, in the final at 200 m free from the World Natation Championships

David moved to the zero aisle and continued the heating exercises for several minutes.

Photo: Roxana Fleșeru (gsp.ro)

At 13:00, David Popovici appeared in the Singapore basin. He trains on aisle 6, the one he will swim in the final.

James Guy, 29, is the only one who does not fit in this rule. He has six Olympic medals, three of them gold, but all were conquered in the pole samples. Also, the British is a world champion in the 200 meter free sample in 2015, in Kazan.

The youngest finalist in Singapore is the Japanese Tatsuya Murasa, who turned 18 in March. He and two other swimmers present in the final,Italian D'Ambrosio and Polish Sieriedzki,They managed to improve their personal record even at Singapore.

The distribution from Singapore also includes American Gabriel Jett, but also South Korean Sunwoo Hwang.

The latter is one of the names established in this test, even if in Paris he did not catch the final. He climbed the podium to the last three editions of World Championships, silver in Budapest in 2022, bronze in Fukuoka in 2023 and gold in Doha in 2024, being the most constant swimming in this test when it comes to the planetary race.

The semi -final times and the distribution of the colors in the final at 200 meters free from Singapore

1. James Guy (UK) – 1.45: 50
2. Carlos Dambrosio (Italy) – 1: 45.23
3. Kamil Sieriedzki (Poland) – 1: 45.00
4. Luke Hobson (US) – 1: 44.80
5. Sunwoo Hwang (South Korea) – 1: 44.84
6. David Popovici (Romania) – 1: 45.02
7. Murasa Tatsuya (Japan) – 1: 45.39
8. Gabriel Jett (USA) – 1: 45.60

The best time of the season belongs to David Popovici with 1: 43.64, established at what u23. Of the finalists he is the only one who went down below 1: 43.00, having the best performance 1: 42.97, established in 2022.

The Romanian has more performance under 1.44.00 in his career. The only one who managed to descend below 1: 44.00 is Luke Hobson, who, under the guidance of Bob Bowman, Michael Phelps's legendary coach, seems to have found a new speed. At the US selection contest for CM from Singapore, he stopped the stopwatch at 1: 43.73.

But a final means something else, beyond the fight with opponents, it is fighting with their own sensations.

Another interesting confrontation will be the tactics of the two great favorite, David Popovici and Luke Hobson. The 200 meter free sample is considered one of the most tactical.

The Romanian is known for his accelerations on the last 50, while the American is a follower of a force in force, with a first 100 meters at maximum capacity.

The finalists and their best times in their career

1. James Guy (29 years old) »1: 45.04

2. Carlos d'Ambrosio (18 years old) »1: 45.23

3. Kamil Sieriedzki (23) »1: 45.00

4. Luke Hobson (22) »1: 43.73

5. Sunwoo Hwang (22) »1: 44.40

6. David Popovici (20 years old) »1: 42.97

7. Tatsuaya Murasa (18 years old) »1: 45.39

8. Gabriel Jett (21 years old) »1: 44.70

David Popovici and Luke Hobson, the only ones who were in Paris in the final

In the final in Singapore there are only two swimmers who were among the first eight and Paris, David Popovici and Luke Hobson, the champion and the bronze medal.

Matt Richards, the Olympic vice champion, missed the qualification, stopping in the semifinals. Duncan Scott, although he ended up with James Guy at the Petru CM selection contest, was left outside the list of British officials.

Lithuanian Danas Rapsys stopped in series at Singapore, while Lukas Martens preferred to focus on the 400 -meter free sample, winning the world title, after Paris had conquered the Olympic one.

Australian Maximilian Giuliani and the Japanese Katsushiro Matsmuoto were not among those enrolled in this test.

3 world championsIn the 200 -meter sample are in the final from Singapore