Another gold, another world record: Noè Ponti ends the World Short Course Championships in Budapest with a bang. The man from Ticino wins the 100 m dolphin in 47.71 seconds.
Ponti was over a second faster than in the semi-final and beat the previous record set by American Caeleb Dressel in 2020 by seven hundredths. It was another demonstration of the strength of the 23-year-old, who gave the competition no chance. Second-placed Frenchman Maxime Grousset was 86 hundredths behind, while third-placed Australian Matthew Temple was just one second behind.
For Ponti, it is also a great satisfaction after finishing fourth in the 100 m dolphin at the Olympic Games in Paris, missing out on the medal he had hoped for by just a tenth of a second.
Ponti can therefore look back on perfect competition days. On Wednesday, he was crowned the first Swiss world champion in the pool. In the 50 m dolphin, he beat his own world record first in the semi-final and then again in the final. On Friday, Ponti doubled this in the 100 m medley, swimming a world record and clearly distancing himself from the competition. Now he has even secured the gold triple.