51-year-old Jonty Warneken from England, 61-year-old Patricia Heffernan from Ireland, 50-year-old Nicola Doran from Ireland, and 47-year-old Tina Deekan from Germany competed in the 4x50m freestyle relay – as para swimmers against a star-studded able-bodied field at the IISA 1st European Championship in Oradea, Romania.
The event was won by the quartet of Michal Perl, Michał Jagiełło, Marta Piasecka, and Filip Kolodziejski in 1:49.69 over multiple teams from Romania, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, France, Slovakia, New Zealand, Israel, Italy, and Belgium.
4 x 50m Mixed Freestyle Relay Results
- Poland 1:49.69 (Michal Perl, Michał Jagiełło, Marta Piasecka, Filip Kolodziejski)
- Romania 1:53.77 (Andrei Enache, Dragos Ghile, Cristian Virgil Tranulea, Kovacs Delia Ana)
- Great Britain Team 1:54.22 (Dan Wallace, Connor Mollison, Euan Stewart, Lili May Mustoe)
- Danish Wikings 1:55.13 (Tobias Staghoj Andersen, Jonas Mathiasen, Nikolaj Kuhn, Naja Soerensen)
- IISA Germany 1:58.18 (Kilian Graef, Christof Wandratsch, Alisa Fatum, Andreas Waschburger)
- Romania 2 1:58.30 (Demeny Attila, Vladimir Romaniuc, Modoran Cosmin, Magdalena Bigea)
- Team Estonia 1:59.43 (Henri Kaarma, Bruno Nopponen, Kristiina Arusoo, Rauno Paerg)
- Romania 4 2:04.11 (Valentin Cinciulescu, Dragos Ionescu, Beloae Elisabeta, Alexandru Ungureanu)
- French Fries 2:05.20 (Guillaume Le Loher, Tiffany Pierrejean, Vincent Leblond, Virgile Poirier)
- Slovakia II 2:05.76 (Jakub Holly, Simon Zdarsky, Michaela Rusnakova, Viktor Dluhos)
- GB Team 1 2:08.96 (Nicholas Murch, Nichola Murch, Ben Baker, Fenwick Ridley)
- Romania 3 2:12.69 (Mihai Nas, Antonio Alexandrescu, Ileana Dan, Iulia Florea)
- Team NL 2:15.99 (Christian Carlie, Petra Guijt, Alexander Schilder, Raymond Oosterbaan)
- GB Team 2 2:18.22 (Brian Bain, Neil Curtis, Graeme Abrahams, Cate Read)
- Israel 02:23.27 Shai Braitner, Israel Gili Braitner, Alumit Matityahu, Ori Sela)
- Fun France Natation 02:23.41 (Alexandre Fuzeau, Jordan Lavialle, Alyson Montialoux, Kevin Audouy)
- GB Team 3 2:24.48 (James Bridges, Laura Hardy, Erin Medcalf, Steph Ramsay)
- Germany II 2:28.30 (Kathrin Runge, Peggy Henning. Stefan Runge, Franziska Partheymüller)
- Riviera Penguins 2:28.34 (Marije Dirkx, Jonas Coene, Maxime Valabregue, Ludovic Charfaz)
- Danish Wikings 3 2:29.15 (Jesper Praest Olsen, Lene Noerboege, Nadja joy Tønnesen, Rikke Danielsen)
- Top Runds 2:31.8 (Richard Nyary, Michal Bartal, Lucia Lezovicova, Alexander Tser)
- GB TEAM 4 2:34.35 (Paul White, Carole Laporte, Pavlina Jackson, Amy Mellor)
- Upper Silezia 2:34.94 (Zuzanna Wince, Wiktoria Adamiec, Piotr Reiman, Alicja Kaluza)
- Italy I 2:57.01 (Giovanna Barletta, Stefania Storace, Vittorio Zanoni, Simone Olivi)
- Germany III 3:02.46 (Elke Ortloff, Kathrin Döring, Heidelinde Partheymüller, Joseph Rothenaicher)
- Cool Huy Gelgium 3:04.48 (Francois Xavier Surinx, Sophie Francois, Marina Bekisz, Christophe Remy)
- World Para 3:05.39 (Patricia Heffernan, Jonty Warneken, Nicola Doran, Tina Deeken)
The Championships will continue through February 4th.
320 swimmers from 27 countries including Albania, Cyprus, Great Britain, Lithuania, Portugal, Turkey, Andorra. Czech Republic. Greece, Luxembourg, Romania, Ukraine, Armenia, Denmark, Hungary, Malta, Russia, Austria, Estonia, Iceland, Moldova, San Marino, Azerbaijan, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Monaco, Serbia, Belarus, Finland, Israel, Montenegro, Slovakia, Belgium, France, Italy, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Poland, and Switzerland will take part.
Race Day 1 on February 2nd 2024
- 500m freestyle
- 50m butterfly
- 100m backstroke
- 50m breaststroke
- 4x50m mixed freestyle relay
- 500m freestyle
Race Day 2 on February 3rd 2024
- 1000m freestyle
- 100m freestyle
- 100m breaststroke
- 4x50m VIP relay
Race Day 3 on February 4th 2024
- 250m freestyle
- 50m backstroke
- 100m butterfly
- 50m freestyle
- 4x250m country relay freestyle
With the water temperature at 4°C, all the events will be streamed live on the IISA YouTube TV channel (watch here).
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