She finished twice at the foot of the podium on Friday, in the 200m butterfly and the 100m medley. On Saturday, Mary-Sophie Harvey made sure it wouldn’t be repeated and she won gold in the 400m medley and silver in the 200m freestyle at the Shanghai Short Course Swimming World Cup.
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“It was a big day and I was a little nervous about doing this double because I didn’t have a lot of time between the two big races. I am pleasantly surprised and the trend after the Games continues: the motivation is there, I enjoy running and getting back into the pool. I think this is felt even in Asia! »
“I’m really happy and I think it feels good afterwards [vendredi]where I had some good races, but fourth place has been tickling me for some time. There, it feels good to be on the first and second step of the podium. »
Her victory in the 400m medley gave her a little extra, because it was only recently that she put this event back into her training with the aim of swimming it at the short course World Championships in Budapest next December.
“It’s the starting point and I think it’s my second best performance ever,” commented the gold medalist who covered the distance in 4 min 28.03 sec, finishing far ahead of her closest rival. , the Slovak Nikoleta Trnikova (+16.78 s).
In the 200m freestyle, the athlete from Trois-Rivières stopped the clock at 1 min 53.36 s, 1.90 s behind the winner, Siobhan Bernadette Haughey, from Hong Kong.
“I am pleasantly surprised and I think there is still a lot of room for improvement. I can’t wait to see what happens in the coming weeks,” continued the 25-year-old swimmer.
Friday, in the 100m medley, Harvey achieved a Quebec record (57.82 s) in addition to coming within 0.02 s of the Canadian mark in short course.
She will be back on the starting block on Sunday in the 100m butterfly.
