David McKeon clinches Men’s 400m freestyle gold medal: Day four – 2011 World University Games
David McKeon of Australia clinched the gold medal of Men’s 400m freestyle on the fourth day of the 2011 World University Games, which concluded on Wednesday, August 17, in Shenzhen, China.
McKeon displayed his breath-taking expertise to claim the gold medal of the mediocre distance freestyle swim by submitting a time of 3 minutes and 48.78 seconds. His time was 2.06 seconds away from the Game Record of Przemyslaw Stanczyk of Poland, who clocked
a time of 3 minutes and 46.72 seconds in the same event at 2009 World University Games in Belgrade.
In addition, the gold medallist also remained 8.71 seconds above the World Record of Paul Biedermann of Germany, who posted a time of 3 minutes and 40.07 seconds in the 400m event at the 2009 Rome World Championships.
The Australian champion was trailed by Michael Klueh of USA, who was 0.06 seconds behind him and reached the podium for silver medal by submitting a wonderful time of 3 minutes and 48.84 seconds. Klueh easily overwhelmed the effort of his closest competitor,
Sho Uchida of Japan, who stayed 3.09 seconds behind the silver medallist and reported a third fastest time of 3 minutes and 51.93 seconds.
The squad of podium finishers was trailed by Sergii Frolov of Ukraine, who was just 0.52 seconds behind the bronze medallist and posted a fourth fastest time of 3 minutes and 52.45 seconds. The Ukrainian swimmer was in a comfortable lead of 1.44 seconds
over his subsequent rival, David Mosko of USA, who ended his swim in a fifth best time of 3 minutes and 53.89 seconds.
In the meantime, the crowd witnessed a fierce competition between Matthew Stanley of New Zealand and Wallace Eggleton of Australia, who engaged each other in a neck-to-neck battle for the sixth finishing spot of the swim. Stanley managed to earn sixth best
spot, as he remained 0.45 seconds slower than the fifth position holder and touched out his following swimmer by posting a time of 3 minutes and 54.34 seconds.
Moments later, Eggleton, who was only 0.39 seconds behind Stanley, ended his swim in a seventh fastest time of 3 minutes and 54.73 seconds. The final spot of the discipline was secured by Sho Sotodate of Japan, who settled as the eighth position holder of
the freestyle swim by producing a time of 3 minutes and 54.97 seconds.
In addition, the session concluded after the commendable efforts of all participants, while the winners were invited on the medal rostrum for their awards and accolades after the session’s completion.
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