Angela Maurer earns top place in Women’s overall ranking: 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup – Part 1
German veteran and World open water silver medallist, Angela Maurer presented spectacular efforts to serve notice of her talent and top the scoring chart of Women’s 2011 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup series. Marathon World Cup is a seven stop series organised
by international aquatics sport governing body, Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA).
Though Maurer failed to make a clean sweep at the championship but her invincible efforts placed her prominently ahead of her team-members, Nadine Reichert and Isabell Donath, on the overall points table.
The German earned five medals at different World Championships throughout her splendid swimming career. She won a bronze medal in the 25km swim at the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships. Later on, she clinched a silver medal in the 10km discipline and a bronze
in the 25km event at the 2003 Barcelona world titles. Recently, the Wiesbaden based German swimmer pocketed silver medal of 25km open water race at the 2011 Shanghai World Championships.
She competed in five stages of the competition and took rest in fourth and fifth stops of the series in Lac St-Jean and Lac Megantic, respectively. Her participation at the championship includes Santos, Cancun, Setubal, Shantou and Hong Kong leg of the series.
She collected one gold medal and two silver medals out of her five races, which placed her on the top of medal chart
Maurer earned an impressive score of 98 points to prove her mettle for the top spot on the 2011 Women’s overall ranking. While her competitors, Reichert and Donath remained second and third best open water athletes with a score of 86 and 60 points, respectively.
Nevertheless, 32 swimmers took part in the opening leg of the series in Santos, Brazil, on April 17. The event began with a forceful start from Cecilia Biagioli, Poliana Okimoto, Andreina Pinto, Isabell Donath and Ana Marcela De Jesus S. Da Cunha, who bruised
Maurer’s hopes in the first event.
Argentina’s Biagioli proved her dominance in the 10km race and clinched the gold medal of the event in a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 33.39 seconds. Her scintillating efforts placed her more than a half minute ahead of Brazil’s Okimoto, who crossed the
finishing line, with a timing of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 07.28 seconds for silver medal. The third position was owned by Venezuela’s Pinto, who stayed 1.98 seconds slower than her former finisher and posted a time of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 09.26 seconds.
Donath of Germany earned fourth spot of the race in 2 hours, 13 minutes and 15.21 seconds while Da Cunha of Brazil ended fifth in a time of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 15.94 seconds. Similarly, Maurer completed her swim in the sixth place as she went across
the finishing end with a timing of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 16.58 seconds.
Maurer failed to answer the dominating efforts of her competitors in the opening event of the series but her sixth finish in the race helped her score points, which played a vital role in the overall scoring. In addition, winners were awarded medals after
the completion of 10km race while Maurer’s fans admired her exhausting effort in her first swim.
Continued in Part 2.
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