Matthew Sates and Chad Le Clos will look to build on their strong starts in FINA’s Swimming World Cup 2022 as the competition’s second leg gets underway.
Toronto, Canada will play host to the World Cup’s second fixture of three, with the three-day tournament getting underway on Friday.
Sates tops the world cup leaderboard with 58.3 points following gold medals in the 200 and 400 metre freestyle events and the 200 and 400 metre medley events in Berlin.
Matthew will feature in the 200m freestyle, 400m medley, 200m medley, 400m freestyle, and 100m medley events in Berlin.
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Le Clos returned from his struggles at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo to produce a 48.58 in the 100m butterly in Berlin. The tenth-fastest swim of all-time and his personal best in nearly two years, Le Clos was just off the FINA Swimming World Cup record of 48.48 set by Evgenii Korotyshkin in 2009. He also picked-up another gold in the 200m butterfly event and silver in the 50m butterfly.
Chad will take to the pool in the 50m butterfly, 200m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly, and 200m freestyle events in Berlin.
The full schedule for three-day event can be found here.
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