Anthony Ervin seizes Men’s 50m freestyle title – FINA Swimming World Cup, Singapore
Anthony Ervin of USA seized gold medal of the Men’s 50m freestyle on second day of the final stop of the 2012 FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup Series in Singapore, Asia on Sunday, November 11.
The American swimmer showed no leniency to his opponents in the two-lap freestyle discipline and transpired on the wall for gold medal.
Ervin faced strong contest from George Bovell in the first lap but with his exhausting efforts in the second half, he managed to escape him over the finishing wall in a comfortable manner.
Ervin stayed in a slight lead over Bovell and cruised his way towards the finishing wall for gold medal with a fantastic timing of 20.99 seconds.
The gold medallist was followed by Bovell, who remained 0.31 seconds slower from him and stepped on the victory stand for silver medal by producing a wonderful time of 21.30 seconds.
The second best finisher was chased by Cameron McEvoy of Australia, who remained only 0.06 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and secured third place by producing a time of 21.36 seconds.
McEvoy was traced by Tommaso D’Orsogna of Australia, who was 0.15 seconds slower and reached the finishing wall as fourth best finisher by posting an effort of 21.51 seconds.
D’Orsogna was followed by Ari-Pekka Liukkonen of Finland, who stayed 0.19 seconds away from his preceding swimmer and ended his race in a time of 21.70 seconds for fifth position.
Sixth position of the event was obtained by Kyle Richardson of Australia, who stayed 0.37 seconds apart and submitted a time of 22.07 seconds.
Following that, the audience witnessed a draw between Ben Lindsay of Australia and Junwu Liu of China for seventh position. They tried hard to overwhelm each other over the finishing blockade but failed to so and ended their swims in identical timings for seventh place.
They remained 0.44 seconds faster from Richardson and ended their race with the timing of 22.51 seconds
Furthermore, the audience appreciated gruelling efforts of Ervin in the shortest freestyle discipline while he expressed happiness over his victory at the victory ceremony of the event.
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