Yohann Ndoye Brouard & Beryl Gastaldello Continue Gold Rush As Euro Meet Wraps Up
Yohann Ndoye Brouard and Beryl Gastaldello continued their gold rush with three more titles between them as they left the Euro Meet with a combined nine golds.
Gastaldello won the 100 free in 53.92 ahead of Sofia Morini (54.56) and Chiara Tarantino (54.94) to claim her fifth title of the three-day meet, adding it to the 50/100 back double as well as 50 free and 50 fly.
France teammate Ndoye Brouard won two titles on Sunday as he made it four in total.
First up was the 200IM in which he led by 2.28secs at halfway and although Denys Kesil ate into that on the freestyle leg, Ndoye Brouard was never really threatened, winning in 2:03.58 to 2:03.99. Mathieu Dufraigne was third in 2:04.74.
Beryl Gastaldello: Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
Ndoye Brouard, who won Olympic bronze in the medley relay in Paris, returned for the 200 back in which he led for the first half of the race.
Mathys Chouchaoui had a sliver of a 0.02 lead at the final turn before the European champion turned on the burners to come past him on the last 50 to take the title in 1:58.92 to 1:59.71.
With that, Ndoye Brouard swept the backstroke events after winning the 50 and 100 to come away with four titles in all as he started 2025 in fine fettle.
Romeo-Cesar Fadda Sauvageot completed the podium in 2:03.57 as he made it three third places in as many backstroke races.
Nicolo Martinenghi won the Olympic 100m breaststroke title last year in Paris and the final was hotly anticipated with the Italian posting the second-fastest time of 1:01.49 in prelims behind Melvin Imoudu who booked lane four in 1:00.26.
However, Martinenghi was DQd in the final with Imoudu, who was fourth in Paris, taking the win in 1:00.19 and wrapping up the 50/100 double with Italian duo Alessandro Pinzuti (1:00.81) and Simone Cerasuolo (1:01.23) joining him on the podium.
Kara Hanlon overturned a 0.29 deficit at halfway to add the 100m breaststroke title to her 50br gold in 1:07.36. With silver in the 200, the Edinburgh University swimmer comes away from Luxembourg following a fine Euro Meet,
Shona Branton (1:07.77) was the other woman inside 1:08 with Arianna Castiglioni third in 1:08.04.
Melvin Imoudu: Photo Courtesy: Deepbluemedia
Sean Niewold led from start to finish to win the 100 free ahead of Illia Linnyk (49.59) and Leonardo Deplano (49.73).
Helena Rosendahl Bach added the 400 free to her repertoire and followed up her fly victories with the title in 4:15.62 with open water specialist Marc-Antoine Olivier taking the men’s race in 3:54.49.
Cyrielle Duhamel overturned a 0.32 deficit at the 150 to come home like a train and take the 200IM title in 2:13.84. Amalie Smith, winner of the 400IM, was second in 2:14.57 with Swim England teammate Phoebe Cooper third in 2:15.12.
Bertille Cousson won the women’s 200 back in 2:12.82 ahead of Lou Anne Guiton (2:13.01) and Manon Domingeon (2:14.68).
