Christian Sprenger conquers Men’s 100m breaststroke semi-final – EnergyAustralia SC Championships
Christian Sprenger of Indooroopilly conquered the semi-finals of Men’s 100m breaststroke on first day of the 2012 EnergyAustralia Short Course Championships at Challenge Stadium in Perth on Wednesday, September 12.
The 26-year-old Sprenger stayed in a marginal lead over his opponents throughout the discipline. With his astonishing efforts and strong commitment, Sprenger sprinted his way towards the finishing blockade for first position and entered the final round as
strongest swimmer for gold medal.
He remained just a touch ahead of his following swimmer and showed his urgency towards the finishing wall with a timing of 59.89 seconds.
Sprenger was followed by Jeremy Meyer of Traralgon, VIC, who remained 0.16 seconds behind and qualified into the final as second best finisher by completing his swim in a time of 1 minute and 00.05 seconds.
Meyer was followed by Nikola Pregelj of Southport Olympic Swimming Club, who remained nearly half body length apart and emerged on the finishing wall as third best finisher by submitting a time of 1 minute and 00.52 seconds.
Pregelj was chased by Joshua Palmer of Lefevre Portside, who remained 0.29 seconds slower and settled on the finishing blockade as fourth fastest swimmer by submitting a time of 1 minute and 00.81 seconds.
Palmer was traced by Nicholas Schafer of River City Rapid, who stayed 0.03 seconds behind and transpired on the finishing end as fifth best finisher by reporting a time of 1 minute and 00.84 seconds.
Subsequently, Schafer enjoyed an advantage of 0.16 seconds over James Stacey of Lane Cove, NSW, who proved his eligibility for sixth position of the event by clocking a time of 1 minute and 01.00 seconds.
Stacey was traced by Max Ireland of Canberra, NSW, who remained nearly two strokes behind and surfaced on the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 01.41 seconds.
Ireland was followed by Lennard Bremer of West Coast, WA, who was only 0.01 seconds slower from his preceding swimmer and hit the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 01.42 seconds.
Sprenger was overjoyed with his fastest qualification effort and shared his plans of winning gold medal in the final.
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