Czech position relay consisting of (from left) Barbora Seemanová, Lucie Svěcená, Kristýna Horská and Simona Kubová at a swimming meeting in Uzbekistan. Successful performance elicited happy smiles.
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Seeman pressed the time to 1: 56.96 min in the final of the two hundred. and did not hide her satisfaction. “I finally managed to break the 1:57 mark, I’m happy. We went here to check how we are doing in the coronavirus season, and I have a new personal record,” she praised after the successful performance.
And she also heard words of praise from coach Petra Škábová. “Bara indicated a good form already yesterday at the hundreds. She then rode a two-hundred-year-old exactly according to the agreement: a well-divided fifty, an unruly first hundred … I have nothing to complain about,” smiled the chief coach of the Prague VSC.
Satisfaction. At a swimming meeting in Uzbekistan, Barbora Seemanová broke the Czech record in the kraulaská dvustovka.
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The position relay also showed a successful performance, in which, in addition to the finishing Seemanová, the emblemaker Simona Kubová, the butterfly artist Lucie Svěcená and the breastmaker Kristýna Horská also presented themselves. Time 4: 03.06 min. The Czech quartet rose to the thirteenth place in the world tables and thus holds a solid hope for the Olympic nomination to Tokyo.
“That’s why we chose an exotic swimming Uzbekistan. The local open championship is approved by the FINA swimming federation and the limits for the Olympics can be met here. The relay has met its goal and the nomination is really close,” noted Škábová.
The Olympic B-limit was already broken on Wednesday by Sebastian Luňák, who swam a new Czech junior record of 1: 57.99 on the butterfly two-seater. Representatives of the incoming swimming generation were separated from the A-limit by 1.51 s.
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