Anastasia Gorbenko Scorches 2:08.63 200 IM Israeli Record

By Retta Race on SwimSwam

2024 MARE NOSTRUM – CANET-EN-ROUSSILLON

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Racing on day one of the first stop of the 2024 Mare Nostrum Tour, 20-year-old Anastasia Gorbenko put on a show in the women’s 200m IM event.

Contesting the final this evening, Gorbenko fired off a new lifetime best of 2:08.63 to handily take the gold.

The next-closest competitor was Shiho Matsumoto of Japan who notched 2:10.33 for silver while reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi, also of Japan, rounded out the podium in 2:12.41.

Entering this competition, Gorbenko’s career-quickest and Israeli national record stood at the 2:09.28 logged at the Monaco stop of the 2023 edition of the Mare Nostrum Tour.

Comparing those 2 outings, Gorbenko made up the most time on the front of the race this time around, with her backstroke about half a second faster than in 2023.

Split Comparison

New Record – 2:08.63	Old Record – 2:09.28
27.49	27.58
32.43	32.95
37.69	37.57
31.02	31.18

Gorbenko’s outing easily cleared the Olympic Quafliciation Time of 2:11.47 needed for Paris and inserts her into slot #8 in the season’s world rankings.

WOMEN’S 200 IM – FINAL

• Mare Nostrum Record – 2:08.49, Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 2017
• OQT – 2:11.47

GOLD – Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR), 2:08.63
SILVER – Shiho Matsumoto (JPN), 2:10.33
BRONZE – Yui Ohashi (JPN), 2:12.41

Israeli national record holder Anastasia Gorbenko soared to the wall first to handily take this women’s 200m IM.

After notching 2:11.02 in the morning, Gorbenko crushed a new lifetime best of 2:08.63 to not only take the gold, but clock a new Israeli standard.

Entering this competition, the 20-year-old’s PB and national record stood at the 2:09.28 from the Monte Carlo stop of last year’s Tour. Tonight’s performance destroyed that effort and fell just .14 outside of Hungarian Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu‘s longstanding Tour record of 2:08.49 from 2017.

Japan took the next 2 spots on the podium, with Shiho Matsumoto hitting 2:10.33 while reigning Olympic champion Yui Ohashi turned in 2:12.41.

These two women earned Olympic qualification in the event at the Japanese Olympic Trials where Ohashi got the edge over Matsumoto in 2:09.17 to the latter’s 2:09.90 effort.

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