Akihiro Yamaguchi clinches Men’s 100m breaststroke gold – Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Akihiro Yamaguchi of Japan clinched gold medal of the Men’s 100m breaststroke on second day of the 2012 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday, August 24.
Yamaguchi enjoyed a comfortable lead over his opponents and served notice of his talent by securing the title of the event. He continued his nerve-wrecking pace from the start and occupied gold medal of the event.
With his fascinating effort throughout the 100m discipline, Yamaguchi was the only swimmer to break the one-minute mark of the discipline. His stupendous effort of 59.85 seconds was significantly under the previous mark and he accomplished gold medal in
a new record time.
His marvellous pace was followed by Kazuki Kohinata of Japan, who remained nearly two and a half body lengths apart and secured silver medal of the event by reporting a time of 1 minute and 02.45 seconds.
The second position holder was followed by Buster Sykes of Australia, who remained nearly one body length behind and ended third in the event with an effort of 1 minute and 03.32 seconds.
Fourth position of the race was obtained by Jonathan Naisby of Canada, who stayed just 0.03 seconds slower form the bronze medallist and hit the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 03.35 seconds.
Naisby was traced by Eric Ronda of USA, who suffered a loss of 0.17 seconds from his foregoing finisher and posted a time of 1 minute and 03.52 seconds for fifth position.
Ronda was followed by his teammate, Will Licon, who stayed 0.33 seconds slower and tapped the wall for sixth position with an effort of 1 minute and 03.85 seconds.
Licon was traced by Jeffrey Arona-Tuifana’e of New Zealand, who stayed just a stroke behind and produced a time of 1 minute and 04.11 seconds for seventh position.
Eighth fastest spot of the race was obtained by Joshua Tierney of Australia, who stayed half body length behind and produced a time of 1 minute and 04.70 seconds.
Yamaguchi was delighted after reaching the top of podium and receiving a huge round of applause from the audience.
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