Brooks Curry Blasts Massive Personal Best in 100 Freestyle at Swim Open Stockholm
The way Brooks Curry looked in the 200-meter freestyle on the second day of the Swim Open Stockholm suggested a strong performance in the 100 freestyle was on the horizon. Indeed, the American Olympic came through during action on Saturday, as he convincingly won the 100 freestyle in the Swedish capital.
Coming off a victory in the 200 freestyle on Friday night, Curry was even more impressive at half the distance on Night Three of the competition. Racing to a dominant win, Curry put together a performance of 47.51, which was nearly a second clear of anyone else in the field. Curry went out in 22.27 and came home in a split of 25.24 to prevail over Sweden’s Robin Hansen (48.42). Third place went to Poland’s Mateusz Chowaniec in 48.57.
Curry (Cal Aquatics) has represented the United States at each of the past two Olympic Games and his showing in Sweden suggests he is moving in the right direction on the path to the 2028 U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Curry’s time at the Stockholm meet was a massive personal best, as he bettered his previous record of 47.90, which was established at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest.
The Cal Aquatics momentum continued in the men’s 200 butterfly, as Gabriel Jett and Dare Rose put together a one-two finish, with Jett narrowly getting the victory in a meet record of 1:55.81. Rose, who won the 100 fly earlier in the meet, was right behind in 1:55.88. Meanwhile, Dutch star Tes Schouten got in on the record-breaking flurry with her own competition standard in the 200 breaststroke. Schouten topped the field in the 200 breaststroke with a swim of 2:23.35, which was comfortably ahead of the 2:25.00 of Lithuania’s Kotryna Teterevkova.
For the second straight day, Germany’s Isabel Gose set a meet record, this time in the 400 freestyle. On the heels of a meet mark in the 1500 freestyle, Gose set a Swim Stockholm record in the 400 free, as she produced a time of 4:04.51. Gose’s swim took .44 off the time she recorded at last year’s edition of the meet. Gose was followed to the wall by countrywoman Maya Werner, who went 4:07.15.
In other action, Poland’s Adela Piskorska won the women’s 200 backstroke in 2:10.82 and Slovenia’s Milan Vojtko was quickest in the men’s 400 individual medley in 4:24.56. Slovenia also received a win from Tamara Potocka in the 200 IM, where she clocked in at 2:12.35. Belgium’s Noah Verreth claimed the men’s 100 backstroke in 54.30.
