2023-12-08 19:02:16
In the suburbs of Bucharest, Marseillaise is the hit of late autumn. The Otopeni Basin hymn attendant had to take the recording again this Friday. Béryl Gastaldello and Mewen Tomac have indeed come to fill a little more the golden Christmas bag of the French delegation, which now has five titles.
Twice silver medalist this week (50m NL and 100m medley) and already second four years ago in the distance, the Étoiles 92 swimmer has this time climbed to the highest step of the 100m NL podium (51′’48) by dominating the Briton Hopkin on the sidelines.
A first European coronation which means a lot for the Stakhanovist of the water lines, entered in 18 races this week. In recent seasons, the young woman, 28, has had to overcome a lot of hard blows, notably depression and the death of her mother, former swimmer Véronique Jardin, last June.
Mewen Tomac feels like a fish in Romanian water. After winning the 50m backstroke, the Norman licensed in Amiens doubled the distance and his number of continental coronations by beating (49”72) his compatriot Yohann Ndoye-Brouard.
At 22 years old, the discreet and hard-working back rider begins to reap the benefits of his slow maturation. And he has no intention of stopping there. Saturday morning, he will be at the start of the 200m backstroke heats in search of a rare hat-trick…
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