The Americans ruled, after seeing David Popovici and at the “Queen” test

Ashley Davis30/07/2025

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Article by Romeo Ene – published Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 09:36 / Updated Wednesday, July 30, 2025 09:36

David Popovici (20 years old) qualified in the semifinals at 100 meters free at the Singapore World Natation Championships, with the best time. US experts analyzed the performance of the one who won the gold medal on Tuesday in the 200 -meter free test.

The Romanian champion will swim in the second semifinal, from 14:32. David controlled the race from the series at 100 meters free, obtaining the best time 47.41 s (23.05 and 24.36).

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

The conclusions of American experts after seeing David Popovici at 100 m free

The US press was paying attention to the qualifications in the 100 m free test and drew the first conclusions in relation to the Romanian athlete.

“David Popovici set the tempo in the series of free 100 sample, being the fastest of the 110 swimmers registered at the beginning. Stopped the stopwatch at 47.41 seconds. All the great favorites qualified, although some had more difficult developments than others.

Kyle Chalmers, in Australia, followed Popovici from the point of view of the obtained times, winning one last series, 12, extremely fast, in 47:48 seconds.

He was closely followed by the neutral athlete Egor Kornev (47:51) and his compatriot Flynnsoutham (47:73). The 4th in this series and the 6th general came Pan Zhanle, the world record, which was over time and Maxime Groousset (France), the winner of series 10.

British Matt Richards ended with a good time, 47.89, enough for the 7th place. The minimum time to catch the top 8 was below 48 seconds, with the South Korean Sun-Woo Hwang occupying the last qualifiable place directly in the semifinals.

The Americans also went to the semifinals, but Patrick Sammon and Jack Alexy only succeeded in the 10th time, ”wrote the Swimming World Magazine.

David Popovici returns to the basin at 2:32 pm

The Romanian athlete will return to the basin this afternoon, in the second semi-final, which will start at 2:32 pm. He will leave a corridor 4, that of the favorite.

The final at 100 m free will take place on Thursday, July 31, at 2:41 pm.