Beryl Gastaldello Among Trio To Continue Golden Form In Val Parisis
Beryl Gastaldello, Maxime Grousset and Mewen Tomac continued their golden form on day two of the French Short Course Championships in Val Parisis.
Gastaldello returned from winning the 100 free on the opening night to take the 50 fly in 25.13, well inside the QT for the s/c Europeans in Lublin, Poland, in December. She was followed by Melanie Henique (25.61) and Maty Ndoye Brouard (25.96).
It was a clear victory achieved despite a slip at the turn. She said through the French Federation: “I’ll tell you, at 25 metres, my hand has completely slipped, I think it will show on the video, you can laugh. Terrible! My best is 24.4s, the main thing is done with the title and the time, but it’s terrible to do a race like that at this level… It happens, but it was very horrible (laughs). It’s the second ticket validated, there are still three to go, including two tomorrow, so focus on the rest and I had a lot of fun and that’s what we’re here for. I’m very satisfied.”
Grousset won the 100 fly and 100IM on day one and then added a third event to his programme in Lublin with a 20.81 victory. Youssef Ramaddan of Egypt was second (21.27) with Nikita Baez (21.34) and Matteo Rabba (21.57) the next Frenchmen home.
Tomac added the 100 back to his 200 title, with a gun to tape victory over world bronze medallist Yohann Ndoye Brouard in 50.00 to 50.83. Jules Andre was third in 51.25. It was a second QT for Tomac with Ndoye Brouard having already booked his trip to Poland.
Emile Vincent won his first national 800 free title in the event with his time of 7:41.52 inside the qualification time.
Elsewhere, Clement Secchi won the 200 fly (1:52.61) and Antoine Viquerat took the men’s 200br title in 2:05.84.
Marina Jehl (200 free, 1:55.41), Camille Tissandie (400IM, 4:39.43) and Giulia Rossi-Bene (100m breaststroke, 1:07.20) also claimed national crowns, albeit outside the QTs.
