Alexander Dale Oen captures Men’s 100m breast-stroke crown: Day two – 2011 FINA World Championships
Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen won the Men’s 100m breast-stroke meet on day two of the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China, on Monday, July 25.
The session of the meet conducted the Men’s 100m breast-stroke final, in which Dale Oen put on a wonderful show and hit the finishing wall in barely 58.71 seconds to clinch the gold medal. More importantly, this is the first ever gold title for the Norwegian
swimmer, Dale Oen, in the World Championships. After the stunning meet, Dale Oen was thrilled with his individual performance in the event.
Previously, he took home the bronze medal in the corresponding race at the 2006 FINA World Championships, in Shanghai. Besides, he snared one silver medal in the respective meet at the 2008 Olympic Games, in Beijing. He also won two gold medals in the 100m
breast-stroke at the 2008 and 2010 European Championships, in Eindhoven and Budapest, respectively.
With the impressive performance, Dale Oen is more determined now to give his best try at the upcoming Olympic Games, in London, 2012.
In the meantime, Fabio Scozzoli of Italy earned the silver medal with a sterling time of 59.42 seconds and Cameron Van Der Burgh grabbed bronze in a time of 59.49 seconds. Renowned Japanese swimmer, Kosuke Kitajima secured the fourth spot in 1 minute and
00.03 seconds.
While speaking about his attempt, Kitajima stated that he was not disappointed with his swim in the respective meet. Earlier, Kitajima snared three gold medals in the Men’s 100m and 200m breast-stroke events in both the 2003 and 2007 editions of the meet,
in Barcelona and Melbourne, respectively.
On the other hand, Brenton Rickard of Australian wound up fifth in a time of 1 minute and 00.11 seconds, while Daniel Gyurta of Hungary earned sixth place honours with a time of 1 minute and 00.25 seconds. Meanwhile, Giedrius Titenis was placed seventh in
a time of 1 minute and 00.25 seconds, whereas, Mark Gangloff of United States wound up eighth in a time of 1 minute and 00.52 seconds.
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