On Tuesday 23 July 2019, Monique Olivier participated in her second event of the 2019 Swimming World Championships in South Korea, this time over the 200 metres freestyle.
Luxembourg's national record holder missed her personal best of 2:01.96 but only by nine hundredths of a second. In the split time (100m), the 21-year-old was even faster than her national record, set up at the Irish Championships in April 2018. In the final ranking, she finished 28th out of 61 competitors. "The first hundred metres I felt very good, in the second half of the race, my legs were heavy. Nevertheless, it was a season's best" Monique summed up after the race.
Pit Brandenburger did not have a good day at his second World Cup start. After his 200 metres race yesterday, the long distance race over 800 metres was on the programme for the sports soldier today. For the first half of the race, the 23-year-old was still below his national record pace, but could not improve on the second 400 metres. Finishing in 8:23.99, he was fifth in his heat (overall ranked 35th) and remained circa three seconds outside his national record (8:20.88) set in April this year.
On Wednesday, Raphael Stacchiotti will swim over 200 metres breaststroke in his first race of this swimming world championship, and Julien Henx starts over 100 metres freestyle.