Ponti is among a field at the Singapore leg of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup that includes Olympic and world champions.
Swimmers Duncan Scott, Noe Ponti, Kate Douglass at a press conference ahead of the Singapore leg of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
What struck him was how the locals, even though they do not have much in terms of materialistic things, are carefree and always smiling, always happy. The stakes are high going into the Singapore event, with Ponti second and just 1.4 points behind French star Leon Marchand, whoIn the Shanghai and Incheon stops of the short-course series, Ponti won five golds, one silver and one bronze. At the China leg, he also became the first Swiss to set a world record in a World Aquatics-approved event since 1985 with his 21.67-second effort in the 50m butterfly.
“But still, I think I could learn a lot from it, and I think it’s going to be good for me also. It’s given me some more motivation for the next couple of years.”Brittle bone disease won’t stop US para-athlete McKenzie Coan from swimming Smith has 118.4 points, with Douglass just 0.1 points adrift. Like Ponti, the latter claimed her first individual world record after clocking 2:14.16 in the women’s 200m breaststroke in South Korea on Oct 25.
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