Jacqueline Freney grabs Women’s 400m freestyle gold – 2012 Paralympic Games
Jacqueline Freney of Australia grabbed gold medal of the Women’s 400m freestyle in S7 category on day eight of the swimming events at the 2012 London Paralympic Games in Aquatics Centre on Thursday, September 6.
The Australian swimmer lived up to expectations of her supporters as she proved her dominance and occupied gold medal of the eight-lap freestyle discipline.
With her astonishing pace, she showed no leniency to her opponents and earned her way to the medal rostrum by touching the wall with a timing of 4 minutes and 59.02 seconds.
The gold medallist was followed by Cortney Jordan of USA, who stayed nearly 19 seconds slower and stepped on the victory stand as second position holder by reporting a time of 5 minutes and 18.55 seconds.
Jordan was trailed by Susannah Rodgers of Great Britain, who was only one stroke slower from improving her position and transpired on the finishing end as third fastest swimmer by reporting a time of 5 minutes and 18.93 seconds.
The bronze medallist was chased by Ani Palian of Ukraine, who remained 2.80 seconds away from reaching the podium and settled on the wall as fourth fastest swimmer by clocking a time of 5 minutes and 21.73 seconds.
Palian was traced by Rebecca Dubber of New Zealand, who was considerably slower from her preceding swimmer and emerged on the wall as fifth best finisher by clocking a time of 5 minutes and 30.05 seconds.
Sixth finest spot of the race was obtained by Brianna Nelson of Canada, who was 10.59 seconds slower from her foregoing finisher and hit the wall with a timing of 5 minutes and 40.64 seconds.
Subsequently, Nelson enjoyed an advantage of one body length over Katrina Porter of Australia, who completed her race in seventh best place by submitting a time of 5 minutes and 41.48 seconds.
Porter was followed by Verena Schott of Germany, who stayed nearly 0.80 seconds behind and clocked a time of 5 minutes and 42.26 seconds.
In addition, Freney received massive appreciation from the crowd for her gruelling efforts and raked medal for her performance after the session.
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