Jack Conger secures Men’s 50m freestyle gold – Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Jack Conger of USA secured gold medal of the Men’s 50m freestyle on fourth day of the 2012 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday, August 26.
Conger smothered hopes of his opponents in the single lap freestyle event as he stayed in a prominent lead over his opponents and reached the wall for gold medal. With his continuous efforts, he gained a comfortable lead over his strongest challenger and sprinted his way towards the wall for gold medal.
Conger enjoyed a benefit of half body length over his following swimmer and appeared on the finishing blockade as fastest swimmer with a wonderful timing of 22.69 seconds.
His gold winning effort remained 0.33 seconds ahead of Regan Leong of Australia, who followed him on the victory stand for silver medal by reporting a nice time of 23.02 seconds.
The second position holder was chased by Erik Risolvato of USA, who remained only 0.15 seconds behind and occupied bronze medal with a timing of 23.17 seconds.
Subsequently, Risolvato was traced by Andrew Digby of Australia, who stayed only 0.12 seconds slower from him over the finishing wall and secured fourth position of the event with a timing of 23.29 seconds.
Digby was followed by Takeshi Kawamoto of Japan, who remained 0.33 seconds apart and completed his race in fifth best place by touching the wall with a timing of 23.62 seconds.
Kawamoto was chased by Toru Maruyama of Japan, who remained 0.05 seconds slower from his team-member and ended his race in sixth place by submitting a time of 23.67 seconds.
Seventh position of the event was secured by Chen Ho Jeremy Wong of Hong Kong, who stayed 0.24 seconds behind and gained seventh fastest spot of the event with an effort of 23.91 seconds.
Wong was followed by Omar Arafa of Canada, who stayed 0.20 seconds slower from his preceding finisher and concluded his swim in a time of 24.11 seconds for eighth position.
In addition, Conger was overjoyed with his undisputed form in the event and articulated that he would train harder to achieve the same at higher levels of international swimming.
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