At the European Short Course Swimming Championships held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 13-17, with our head trainer Fatih Yıldırım and trainer Orhan Mengi, as being national team trainers in the championship, also our club swimmers Viktoria Zeynep Güneş, İmge Roza Erdemli, İskender Başlakov, Ümit Can Güreş, Ege Başer and Berkay Ömer Öğretir represented our country.
Our European Junior Champion swimmer Ümit Can Güreş swam in 50m-100m butterfly and 50m backstroke and 4x50m medley relay meetings. He broke 11 records and in individual category he was 5th in Europe.
Ümit Can Güreş firstly renewed his own Open Aged Turkish Record in 50m Butterfly in the morning preliminary with a time of 22.95 and being 9th he reached to semifinal. In the semifinal he broke his second record with a time of 22.65 and put his name in the final list. Moreover breaking his third record with a time of 22.56 he showed his success being 5th in Europe. In this way Ümit Can Güreş, born in 1999, signed the most important success in his career.
Our swimmer also renewed his own 17-18 and Open Aged Turkish Records in 100m butterfly in preliminary with a time of 51.56 ; Aged 17-18 Turkish Record in 50m backstroke preliminary with a time of 24.24. Moreover in the 4x50m medley relay national team that Ümit Can placed in preliminary, with a time of 1:34.39; in the final Ümit Can Güreş and İskender Başlakov placed, with a time of 1:33.18 renewed Open Aged Turkish Records.
