Alexander Dale Oen impresses in Men’s 100m breast-stroke heats: Day one –FINA World Championships
Alexander Dale Oen of Norway won the preliminary rounds of Men’s 100m breast-stroke meet on the opening day of 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, on Sunday, July 24.
Oen was the fastest swimmer of the qualifying rounds, as he completed his two-lap swim in a fastest time of 59.71 seconds. He was followed by Glenn Snyders of New Zealand, who emerged as the second fastest swimmer, with a qualification time of 59.94 seconds.
The 24-year-old Snyders was followed by Kosuke Kitajima of Japan, who was only 0.02 seconds slower than him and posted a third fastest qualification time of 59.96 seconds.
Oen’s time was 1.13 seconds ahead of the world mark of Australian swimmer, Brenton Rickard, who captured the gold medal of same event in 58.58 seconds at the 2009 Rome World Championships.
The fourth fastest spot of the swim was claimed by Felipe Alves Franca Da Silva of Brazil, who posted a time of 1 minute and 00.01 seconds. He was followed by Fabio Scozzoli of Italy, who stayed only 0.13 seconds behind him and produced a time of 1 minute
and 00.14 seconds. Mark Gangloff of USA was the sixth finest swimmer of the 100m event, as he displayed an effort of 1 minute and 00.29 seconds to proceed into the finals.
Christian Sprenger of Australia was the seventh best swimmer of the breast-stroke discipline, as he stayed only 0.06 seconds behind his preceding swimmer and qualified into the final with timing of 1 minute and 00.35 seconds. Ryo Tateishi of Japan was the
eighth best swimmer, as he concluded his swim in 1 minute an 00.37 seconds. In addition, Rickard qualified into the semi-final as the 13th fastest swimmer, as he completed his race in 1 minute and 00.48 seconds.
Furthermore, the session concluded after the completion of the preliminary rounds of all events, while these swimmers will compete with each other in the next round of the breast-stroke swim to enter into the final as the fastest swimmer.
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