Immediately a confirm in the second morning of heats of the 47th European Junior Championships at the swimming stadium in Rome. In the 100 freestyle the new junior record holder  (47"56 in the first fraction of the 4x100 relay yesterday), the Romanian David Popovici, qualifies with the first time (49"50) to the semifinals this afternoon. In the women's 100 backstroke, Spain's Carmen Weiler Sastre set the best time in 1'01"37, while Italian Simone Cerasuolo is the best of the morning in the 100 breaststroke, setting his new personal best in 1'00"78. The Russian Anastasiia Markova dominates the 200 butterfly, and accesses with the first time to the semifinals (2'10"63) ahead of the French Delmas and the Hungarian Csulak. Saka Berke (Tur), who will also race in the 100 backstroke final tonight, advances to the afternoon round of the 200 individual medley with the first access time, in 2'01"57. Russian team is first in the mixed freestyle reley with 3'33"34 and is the favourite in tonight's final. In the last race Aleksandr Stapanov (Rus) closed the morning's batteries swimming 15'15"59 in the 1500m freestyle.

Shown below the best results of the heats.

Men's 100m freestyle
1. David Popovici (Rou) 49"50

Women's 100m backstroke
1. Carmen Weiler Sastre (Esp) 1'01"37

Men's 100m breaststroke
1. Simone Cerasuolo (Ita) 1'00"78 pp (prec. 1'01"17)

Women's 200m butterfly
1. Anastasiia Markova (Rus) 2'10"63

Men's 200m individual medley
1. Berke Saka (Tur) 2'01"57

Mixed 4x100m freestyle
1. Russia (Levchenko 51"48, Nazipov 50"91, Trofimova 55"13, Kurilkina 55"82)

Men's 1500m freestyle
1. Aleksandr Stapanov (Rus) 15'15"59

Credit Photo Andrea Masini / DBM