Gui Caribe to Lead Brazil Pan Pacs Roster
Tennessee sprinter Gui Caribe will lead Brazil’s 11-strong roster at the Pan Pacific Championships this summer. Caribe was among the group that qualified via the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio last week.
Caribe went 23.01 in the 50 fly, denying 46-year-old Nicholas Santos a chance to reach the meet. Santos was second in 23.19. Caribe easily beat Pedro Spajari in the 50 free final in 21.75, nearly four tenths up. Caribe won the 100 free in 47.60, more than a second ahead of the field for the sprinter who is coming off a stellar NCAA season.
It was a happier ending for 40-year-old Joao Gomes Jr., who made the team in the 50 breaststroke. He went 27.15 to win the final and was 26.92 in prelims.
Stephan Steverink won the 400 free in 3:45.26, ahead of Artur Mello’s 3:47.09. Guilherme da Costa was third in 3:48.03. Steverink won the 200 free in 1:46.32, he and Murilo Sartori’s 1:46.53 getting to Pan Pacs (with Breno Correia third in 1:46.81). Steverink also won the 400 individual medley in a non-qualifying time of 4:16.10.
Da Costa bested Steverink in the 800 free to reach Pan Pacs, the veteran going 7:50.24 to Steverink’s 7:51.55. He won the 1,500 in 15:10.34, four seconds up on Steverink.
The women’s strength was in the 200 free, which Maria Fernanda Costa won in 1:56.42 to get to the individual race. She’ll race a relay there with Gabrielle Roncatto (1:58.64), Stephanie Balduccini (1:59.07) and Aline Rodrigues (1:59.56).
Costa set a meet record in the 400 free, going 4:03.12, just .26 off her national record. She made a run at her new national record of 8:23.98 from April’s Australian Open by winning that in a meet record 8:24.35.
Beatriz Dizotti set a meet record in the 1,500 free to qualify. She went 16:04.63, within three seconds of her national record.
Etienne Medeiros return to competition, the 35-year-old winning the 50 back in 28.43. It’s her first meet on record since the Jose Finkel Trophy in the fall of 2022.
Among international swimmers, Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez had a big week. He won the 100 backstroke in 54.28 ahead of Guilherme Baseto’s 54.34 but was second to Baseto’s 24.80 in the 50 back. Gonzalez set a best time in finishing second in the 100 breast in 1:00.55 and won the 200 IM in 1:58.87. He dominated the 200 back in 1:57.60.
Volodymyr Lisovets of Ukraine was second in the 50 breast in 27.20 and third in the 100 breast in 1:00.69. Louisville’s Tommy Bried was second in the 400 IM in 4:17.64. Lisovets was second and Bried third in the 200 breast, with 100 breast winner Caio Pumputis getting a second win.
American Cadence Vincent won the 100 back in 1:00.68, a best time for her by .03 seconds. She also set a best time in the 100 free in 54.30 to best Giovana Medeiros (54.89) and Balduccini’s 55.01, then won the 50 free in 24.86. Vincent was also third in the 50 back in 28.74.
Brazil Pan Pacs roster
- Maria Fernanda Costa 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 800 free relay
- Beatriz Dizotti 1500 free
- Stephanie Balduccini 800 free relay
- Gabrielle Roncatto 800 free relay
- Aline Rodrigues 800 free relay
- Stephan Steverink 200 free, 400 free
- Arthur Mello 400 free
- Murilo Sartori 200 free
- João Gomes Jr. 50 breast
- Gui Caribe 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly
- Guilherme Costa 800 free
