Jessica Hardy seizes Women’s 50m breaststroke title – 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup, Moscow
Jessica Hardy of USA seized gold medal of the Women’s 50m breaststroke on second day of the 2012 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Moscow, Russia on Thursday, October 18.
The American swimmer continued her breath-taking efforts in the shortest breaststroke discipline as she overpowered her opponents on the finishing wall for gold medal.
Hardy gained a comfortable lead over her competitors in the first half and continued the same in second lap to ensure her place on top of the medal rostrum for title.
Her stupendous effort remained more than half a body length ahead of her toughest challenger, as she occupied gold medal of the race in a wonderful time of 30.29 seconds.
The champion was followed by Jenna Laukkanen of Finland, who was 0.74 seconds slower and posted a time of 31.03 seconds for silver medal.
Laukkanen was traced by Valentina Artemyeva of Russia, who stayed only 0.11 seconds slower from upsetting her former finisher and clocked an effort of 31.14 seconds.
Fourth fastest spot of the event was obtained by Rie Kaneto of Japan, who stayed only 0.05 seconds slower and touched the wall with a timing of 31.19 seconds.
Subsequently, Kaneto was followed by Elizaveta Bazarova of Russia, who was only a fraction away from her former finisher and settled on the wall as fifth position holder with an effort of 31.20 seconds.
Sixth spot of the race was secured by Maria Temnikova of Russia, who was 0.18 seconds slower from her former finisher and posted an effort of 31.38 seconds.
Temnikova was chased by Yuzhe He of China, who was 0.19 seconds away from her former finisher and touched the wall with a timing of 31.57 seconds for seventh position.
Eighth position of the event was obtained by Ekaterina Uymenova of Russia, who was 0.14 seconds slower and surfaced on the wall with the timing of 31.71 seconds.
In addition, Hardy received massive appreciation from the audience for her commendable efforts and articulated that she would try her level best to please her fans by accomplishing gold medal of the same at forthcoming swimming events.
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