Emma Gray and Andrew Cameron dominate in Gold Coast – Swimming news
Two young guns of Australia including Emma Gray of University of Sydney and Andrew Cameron of University of Melbourne throttled their arch rivals in butterfly swimming final heats on day three of the 2011 Australian University Games. The session conducted
both the Women’s and Men’s 200m butterfly finals, in the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, on Thursday, September 29.
Emma Gray smothered University of Melbourne’s Angelica Armellini and Flinders University’s Sim Su Lim by capturing the Women’s 200m butterfly title with a winning mark of 2 minutes and 28.02 seconds. Emma Gray’s arch rivals, Armellini and Lim settled for
second and third spots on the podium by posting a time of 2 minutes and 29.29 seconds and 2 minutes and 37.51 seconds, respectively.
Meanwhile, Jessica Kipping of Monash University and Yumi Shirai of University of Tasmania gave their stirring attempts and ended fourth and fifth in the meet with a mark of 2:40.84 minutes and 2:41.65 minutes, respectively. In the corresponding meet, Bec
Thompson of Bond University captured sixth spot with a time of 2 minutes and 48.77 seconds.
The seventh and eighth places went to University of Melbourne’s Katelyn Tadd and Rmit University’s Teagan Nugent with an anticipated mark of 2 minutes and 56.13 and 3 minutes and 02.77 seconds, respectively.
In another inspiring final heat, University of Melbourne’s athlete, Andrew Cameron throttled University of New South Wales’ Shane Kingsbury and University of Sydney’s Stephen Parkes by clinching the Men’s 200m butterfly crown on the podium with a stunning
mark of 2 minutes and 04.81 seconds. Both, Kingsbury and Parkes earned silver and bronze medals with a striking mark of 2 minutes and 05.53 seconds and 2 minutes and 05.85 seconds, respectively.
In the corresponding swim, both athletes, Grant Irvine of Queensland University of Technology and University of Tasmania’s Thomas Clarke settled for fourth and fifth spots by posting a time of 2:10.51 minutes and 2:11.08 minutes, respectively. In the meantime,
Darius Schultz of University of Southern Queensland earned sixth position in a time of 2 minutes and 24.22 seconds.
Last, but not the least, Daniel Steemson of Australian National University and Peter Woolley of Rmit University claimed seventh and eighth positions in the meet by posting a mark of 2 minutes and 25.06 seconds and 2 minutes and 31.64 seconds, respectively.
The 2011 Australian University Games are a great opportunity for young guns of Australia in order to boost their individual swimming proficiencies for their impending meets at the London Olympics, in 2012.
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