Fabio Scozzoli conquers Men’s 50m breaststroke title – 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup, Berlin
Fabio Scozzoli of Italy conquered gold medal of the Men’s 50m breaststroke on initial day of the 2012 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany on Saturday, October 20.
Scozzoli demonstrated his astonishing efforts in the shortest breaststroke discipline and transpired on the finishing blockade for gold medal.
With his quickest response to the start, Scozzoli gained a marginal lead over his opponents and paved his way towards the finishing end for the crown.
He stayed nearly half a body length behind and surfaced on the wall with the timing of 26.31 seconds for the title.
The champion was chased by Erik Steinhagen, who stayed 0.40 seconds slower and tapped the wall for silver medal with a fascinating timing of 26.71 seconds.
The second position holder was followed by Glenn Snyders of New Zealand, who stayed only 0.08 seconds behind and surfaced on the wall as third best finisher by submitting a nice time of 26.79 seconds.
Subsequently, Snyders was chased by Biaorong Gu of China, who remained 0.20 seconds away from seizing third best spot on the victory stand and settled on the wall as fourth fastest swimmer by reporting an impressive time of 26.99 seconds.
Fifth finest spot of the race was obtained by Henrique Barbosa of Brazil, who stayed 0.28 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and touched the wall with a timing of 27.27 seconds.
Barbosa was followed by Aleksander Hetland of Norway, who remained 0.01 seconds slower from his preceding swimmer and secured sixth place by clocking an effort of 27.28 seconds.
Hetland was followed by Neil Versfeld of South Africa, who suffered a loss of 0.17 seconds from his former swimmer and posted a time of 27.45 seconds.
Eighth position of the race was obtained by Ivan Duran of Croatia, who failed to make any improvement in his qualification time and ended his race with an effort of 27.81 seconds.
In addition, Scozzoli received a huge round of applause from the audience for his immaculate efforts and said that he would train harder in future to accomplish the same at superior levels of swimming.
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