Christian Sprenger conquers Men’s 100m breaststroke heats – EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships
Christian Sprenger of Indooroopilly won hearts of the arena by conquering top position in the preliminary rounds of Men’s 100m breaststroke on foremost day of the 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships at the South Australia Aquatic and Leisure Centre
in Adelaide on Thursday, March 15.
The Australian Selection Trials is an eight-day swimming event, which is subject to complete their national team for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
The 26-year-old Sprenger showed no mercy to his challengers in the double lap breaststroke swim and made his way into the semi-finals as the top fastest swimmer.
With his notable efforts, he was the first swimmer to jump off from the starting blocks. With his fastest response to the start, he gained a slight lead over his challengers and ended his first lap of the event in a time of 28.53 seconds.
He was followed by Brenton Rickard of Southport Olympic Swimming Club, who remained just 0.45 seconds slower from his former finisher and ended his first half of the swim with the timing of 28.98 seconds. The second fastest swimmer was chased by Jeremy Meyer
of Traralgon, VIC, who ended his initial lap of the swim with the timing of 29.26 seconds.
The arena saw astonishing efforts of these swimmers in the second lap, where they tried hard to overcome each other, but Sprenger succeeded in reaching the wall first.
Sprenger emerged as a tough nut to crack and sprinted his way towards the finishing wall for first position by posting a time of 1 minute and 00.89 seconds. With his fascinating effort, he remained 1.20 seconds ahead of 28-year-old Rickard, who entered the
semi-finals with the timing of 1 minute and 02.09 seconds.
Similarly, Rickard enjoyed an advantage of 0.34 seconds over 20-year-old Meyer, who finished his swim in a time of 1 minute and 02.43 seconds. The fourth spot of the discipline was obtained by Rickard’s teammate, Nikola Pregelj, who ended his swim with the
timing of 1 minute and 02.80 seconds.
In addition, these semi-finalists will compete with each other in today’s second session, where the top eight finishers will qualify for the final round.
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