{"id":45181,"date":"2022-08-14T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-popovici-17-breaks-100m-freestyle-world-record-at-european-championships\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:33:40","slug":"david-popovici-17-breaks-100m-freestyle-world-record-at-european-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-popovici-17-breaks-100m-freestyle-world-record-at-european-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"David Popovici, 17, breaks 100m freestyle world record at European championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<p>The 17-year-old broke the previous record, set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009, by 0.05 seconds as he took gold ahead of Hungary&#8217;s Kristof Milak and Italy&#8217;s Alessandro Miressi. <\/p>\n<p>Popovici, who was crowned world champion in the 100m and 200m freestyle earlier this year, becomes the youngest world record holder in the 100m freestyle event. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_F2E67071-FD1C-64FD-316E-9C863E363D82\">&#8220;I wanted to go as fast as possible and it looks like I did it,&#8221; he told the BBC, calling himself a &#8220;skinny legend.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><noscript><img alt=\"Meet the Black women pushing for equality in swimming\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220630161006-split-for-swimming-black-equality-tease-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A fantasy now might be a 45 (second time),&#8221; he added.  &#8220;Adam Peaty is a pioneer in terms of the goals he set. For others it was science fiction, but not for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<p>British swimmer Peaty set himself the benchmark of becoming the first man to swim the 100m breaststroke in under 57 seconds during his career &#8212; a feat he achieved when he broke his own record in 2019.  <\/p>\n<p>The prospect of a new 100m freestyle record looked likely when Popovici broke the 47-second barrier for the first time in the semifinals on Friday.  After his record-breaking swim the following day, he was congratulated by Cielo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_715A8EFF-C4A3-F8AD-5E8E-9C863E39BE02\">&#8220;I knew this day was coming&#8230; And it did! My 100m freestyle world record was broken after 13 years!&#8221;  Cielo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CesarCielo\/status\/1558515600430956544?s=20&amp;t=x5yYjYfshGTdIEoyyt1xLA\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_1721AD28-ECC7-A8BC-775F-9C8C929D54E6\">Visit CNN.com\/sport for more news, videos and features<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations, Popovici! Glad to have had this huge record for so long! <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is the new fastest man in the world in the 100 meters freestyle and he is just getting started!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 17-year-old broke the previous record, set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009, by 0.05 seconds as he took gold ahead of Hungary&#8217;s Kristof Milak and Italy&#8217;s Alessandro Miressi. Popovici, who was crowned world champion in the 100m and 200m freestyle earlier this year, becomes the youngest world record holder in the 100m freestyle event. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-popovici-17-breaks-100m-freestyle-world-record-at-european-championships\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Popovici, 17, breaks 100m freestyle world record at European championships<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[17642,17643,17641,850],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44705,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/romanias-david-popovici-breaks-100-meter-freestyle-world-record\/","url_meta":{"origin":45181,"position":0},"title":"Romania&#8217;s David Popovici breaks 100-meter freestyle world record","date":"August 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"ROME \u2014 Seventeen-year-old David Popovici of Romania became the youngest swimmer to break the world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle Saturday, beating the mark set more than 13 years ago in the same pool. 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