(Old WR) David Popovici 46.86 // 100m Freestyle Final // European Champs 2022

It’s extremely impressive considering his super low muscle mass. Most sprinters are huge, so they pull a lot of water and create more resistance with their body. On the other hand, Popovici seems like he’s gliding through the water with barely any resistance with his incredible technique, which makes him more hydrodynamic. He showed us how much versatility there is in this sport and that you don’t have to fit necessarily into one body type in order to perform on a world stage. Revolutionary!

i could never do this wtf

Well done boy!

Galloping!

Fabuloso

This will break in the olympics

Bravo David! cautam cea mai rapida tehnica de inotat si am gasit un roman care este cel mai rapid din lume! <3 Sunt mandru!

love his expression before the swim

Felicitari David, esti unic, halucinant de bine inoti, Romania e mandra de tine, trebuiesti multiplicat de mii de ori, sanatate multa iti doresc !

Whose record did he break?

amazing

Thank you for showing everyone that Romania is preety cool. As a romanian, thank you!!!

extrêmement fort, moi je fais 58secondes au 100M nage libre.

Pity they didn’t show the WR line . Instead the red line was the European record

SUPER BOY! RESPECT! 🌟⭐👌👏🌹💙🌊✨🏆🥇🎩

Incredible! He’s now the best swimmer in the world and given his age could be there for a while.

Mind blowing 🤯. Can he go 46.82?

What suit was he wearing?

This is insane what a fucking beast

For me, swimming Lezak 46.06 in 2008 in Beijing remains the fastest to date!
Nothing that the start is not the first! Even if we put the reaction from the start signal which can be between 0.50 - 0.80 second, it will still be better than that so far!

Now it's 45.91 😵

He stayed under water the longest after the turn

romanyadan yüzücü çıkıyor 3 hatta 4 tarafı denizlerle çevrili ülkemde bir yüzücü zor çıkıyor..!

Bravo David! Impressive! Respect!

With that body type and technique, imagine what he will do so some of the 200m & longer distance records as he gets older. 🔥

Caleb who?

the fact that hungary came in second makes it soo much better

Last off the breakout too, amazing. So glad this record was finally beaten

SUA stai pe fază,se ridică înapoi România la competițele sportive.O să batem SUA pe unde o prindem.

Well done Skinny Legend 🏊

46.86 with a non sprinter freestyle stroke is out of This world.

Aquaman ! 🇷🇴

Aquaman 2023 movie trailer Please those with the camera to film its gills because I don't think he breathes through his nose, he's not human ....

His physique will change over time, this can bring him benefit or disadvantage ... bearing in mind that he is already 1.90 cm. Paradoxically, he is an athlete from a country with only one Olympic pool and yet he has lifted the baton. As he said, the muscles and the body adapt if you control your brain well.. .my opinion is this nice amazing weird kid will become the best swimmer in human history. God gave him a gift and he took full advantage. Well done kid, you make your romanians proud of you and proud of theyr country!

Popovich He is truly amazing. It doesn't look like he's ever used drugs, but that's a great record.

coooooool👏

The only performance with which I can compare this race is that of Jason Leazak in the 4x100 free of 2008. He set a time of 46.06 which, although it was done in the last fraction of the relay, also adding a normal reaction time (60 cents second usually) would still be much faster than the popovici race. On that occasion Leazak was not even wearing a supersuit although it was a one-piece swimsuit.

David, you are Usain Bolt în water!

Is it possible that in the next elections we will vote for the President of Romania?!!!

Chúc mừng. Chúc anh đoạt huy chương vàng olympic pari 2024

Super David 👏👏👏
WR 👏👏👏
Congratz Romania from Italy ❤️

First Ahmed Hafnaou, when the guys covering the race were more about this american guy who went to this university and that other australian who.... bla bla bla.... and Ahmed was already beating the rest and the white fools ignoring him like they will do with swimming in the future now that they are out of the picture. XD XD Now Popovici breaks a world record and hits anglosaxon arrogance even more fiercely. XD XD Im so proud of this guy!!!! He is going to shut so many mouths........ The reign of anglosaxon arrogant fools is over.........XD XD

What I think is genuinely mental about this kid beyond his just unbelievably incredible speed through the water is that he's got a below-average start and a really weak turn! he's got .2 just in the start and .15-.2 in the turn on the 100... that could have been a 46.4 without any gain in muscle or endurance. you add 2 years of growing in to his body and improving on turns and there is no reason why we couldn't see him go 45.something ...

we now have a world junior record that will never break, and a world record that only he can break

I think... He has a time stone and then He made time get slower...🤔

see how he goes in Paris ! It's Completely different in an Olympic final

David Aquaman Popovici!!