Daiya Seto grabs Men’s 400m IM title – 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup, Berlin
Daiya Seto of Japan grabbed gold medal of the Men’s 400m Individual Medley (IM) on initial day of the 2012 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, October 20.
The Japanese swimmer showered his expertise in the distant IM discipline and dominated his way to the top of medal rostrum for gold medal. He dictated terms to his opponents from the start and overpowered them over the finishing end for the title.
With his unrelenting efforts, Seto remained just one arm-stroke ahead of his toughest competitor and clocked a wonderful time of 4 minutes and 00.12 seconds for gold medal.
His title claiming effort remained 1.30 seconds faster from Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, who followed him on the finishing end as second position holder by submitting a nice time of 4 minutes and 01.42 seconds.
Cseh was chased by David Verraszto of Hungary, who was almost two body lengths apart and occupied bronze medal of the event by producing a fantastic effort of 4 minutes and 03.19 seconds.
The third position holder was followed by Kevin Wedel, who was considerably slower from him and surfaced on the wall as fourth best finisher by touching the wall with a timing of 4 minutes and 12.73 seconds.
Fifth best spot of the race was secured by Yannick Lebherz, who stayed 2.19 seconds behind and ended his race in a time of 4 minutes and 14.92 seconds.
Subsequently, Lebherz enjoyed an advantage of one and a half body length over Pedro Pinotes, who proved his eligibility for sixth spot of the event by clocking a time of 4 minutes and 16.17 seconds.
Seventh place of the race was obtained by Taki Mrabet of Tunisia, who was 0.10 seconds apart and clocked a time of 4 minutes and 16.27 seconds.
Last spot of the event was obtained by Gunnar Bentz of USA, who stayed half body length behind and reported a time of 4 minutes and 16.85 seconds.
Furthermore, Seto was overjoyed with his gold securing effort and said that he would try hard to continue the same in forthcoming swimming competitions.
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