David Popovici Paris 2024 Schedule. Romanian swimmer david popovici moved clsoer to lowering the 200m freestyle world record, with a lightning quick time of 1:43.13 at the european aquatics championships. Great britain's matt richards missed out on olympic gold in the men's 200m freestyle by just 0.02 seconds to romania's david popovici.

Became the second man in history to win both events at the same world championships (1973, jim montgomery, usa) and the first romanian male swimmer to win a world title. 2x 100m freestyle european champion david popovici spoke to european aquatics tv after he beat the likes of nándor németh and kristof milak to gold.