Noè Ponti and Roman Mityukov Among A Five-Strong Switzerland Team Set For Singapore
Noè Ponti and Roman Mityukov are among a five-strong Switzerland team selected for the World Championships in Singapore.
Joining the pair are Antonio Djakovic, Marius Toscan and Gian-Luca Gartmann while Lisa Mamié – the four-time European breaststroke medallist – will be given the chance to qualify at the Sette Colli meet in Rome next month. Massimo Meloni and Clément Bailly comprise the coaching team at worlds which run from 27 July to 3 August.
Ponti sits atop the 100 fly rankings with his 50.27 rattler at the Swiss Long-Course Championships last month, the second-fastest of his career and just 0.11 off his Swiss record of 50.16 set at the 2024 edition of the national championships. He also posted a 22.77 rankings-topper in the 50 fly and won the 100 free in 49.52.
Roman Mityukov: Photo Courtesy: Deepbluemedia
That followed a record-breaking campaign in the latter months of 2024. He lowered the 50 fly s/c world record on four occasions, finishing with a 21.32 blast in Budapest that secured one of three golds at short-course worlds last December. He went on to topple Caeleb Dressel’s global 100 fly standard in 47.71, going 0.07 inside the record of 47.78 set by the nine-time Olympic champion in November 2020.
Ponti is seeking his first long-course worlds medal, having finished fourth in the 200 at Budapest 2022, swimming in the lane adjacent to Kristof Milak as the Hungarian set the WR of 1:50.34 with the Swiss affected by Covid. He left Fukuoka a year later without any silverware after beginning his taper too early.
There won’t be an appearance in the 200 fly with Ponti taking a break from the four-length event.
Olympic bronze medallist Mityukov was the first man in 2025 to go inside 1:56 in the 200 back when he posted 1:55.64 at the Swiss Championships, 0.79 off his Swiss record of 1:54.85 which secured him a place on the Paris 2024 podium. He currently sits second in the rankings having been displaced by Ollie Morgan and his 1:55.55 at April’s British trials.
Mityukov already has two World Championships medals in his vault. He finished second behind Hugo González in Doha last year which followed bronze in Fukuoka a year earlier where Hubert Kós and Ryan Murphy occupied the top two steps of the podium.
Antonio Djakovic won bronze in the 200 and 400 free at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade, two years after double silver at Roma 2022.
Toscan – who competes in the IM and fly – has moved to the National Performance Centre in Tenero and is training alongside Ponti under national coaches Massimo Meloni and Andrea Mercuri. Breaststroke specialist Gartmann will make his worlds debut in Singapore.
It will be the first team in many years that a Switzerland team will not feature Jérémy Desplanches after the Olympic and world 200IM medallist announced his retirement at the end of last year.
