By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
58TH SETTE COLLI TROPHY
- Friday, June 25th – Sunday, June 27th
- Swimming Stadium of the Foro Italico, Rome, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Olympic Qualifying Competition
- Start Lists
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Recap
- Results
Swedish superstar Sarah Sjostrom said she was surprised about how well she did to close her 100 fly on Saturday in Rome, but also that she’s “not convinced” about swimming it at the Olympic Games just yet.
Speaking after her first long course 100 fly since the 2019 World Championships on Saturday, Sjostrom both said that she was pleased with the way she split her race (26.6/31.0) given the break and that she still had a lot of work to do in that event.
Sjostrom has maintained that the freestyle races would be her focus on her return to racing after surgery. She has cited the imbalance in her butterfly stroke as a particular challenge given the muscular atrophy in her injured left arm.
Sjostrom is both the defending Olympic gold medalist and the World Record holder in the 100 fly.
She went on to say that she’s pleased with her “big step” as compared to her swim in her first meet back in early June in Canet, France. In Canet, she swam 54.84, but on Saturday she lowered that to a 53.47. That 100 free came about an hour after her 100 fly.
Watch Sjostrom talk about her races, and the comeback attempt by her countrymate Therese Alshammar, below.
Video interview courtesy SwimSwam Italia’s Giusy Cisale:
Read the full story on SwimSwam: Sarah Sjostrom Pleased with 100 Fly Return, “Not Convinced” of it for Tokyo Yet