Kazuya Kaneda overpowers Men’s 200m butterfly prelims – FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup
Kazuya Kaneda of Russia overpowered the preliminary rounds of Men’s 200m butterfly on opening day of the 2012 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Stockholm, Sweden on Saturday, October 13.
The Russian swimmer lived up to the expectations of his supporters as he dominated the preliminary round of the 200m event.
He experienced strong resistance from his following swimmer, Nikolay Skvortsov of Japan throughout the race but with his alluring efforts, Skvortsov managed to outperform him for first position.
He stayed nearly half body length ahead of his closest competitor and touched the wall for gold medal with a timing of 1 minute and 55.57 seconds.
His gruelling effort remained 0.41 seconds ahead of Kaneda, who made his way towards the finishing end for second position by producing a time of 1 minute and 55.98 seconds.
Kaneda was followed by Thomas Shields of USA, who was 0.33 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and tapped the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 56.31 seconds.
Fourth best qualification spot of the race was obtained by Viktor Bromer of Denmark, who stayed full body length behind and appeared on the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 57.23 seconds.
Subsequently, Bromer was traced by Joeri Verlinden of Netherlands, who remained half body length behind and clocked a time of 1 minute and 57.65 seconds for fifth place.
Sixth spot of the event was obtained by Daiya Seto of Japan, who stayed 0.24 seconds slower and clocked a time of 1 minute and 57.89 seconds.
The Japanese swimmer was chased by Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, who suffered a deficit of just 0.07 seconds from his foregoing finisher and surfaced on the wall as seventh position holder with a timing of 1 minute and 57.95 seconds.
Cseh was traced by Henrique Rodrigues of Brazil, who stayed 0.31 seconds slower and touched the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 58.26 seconds.
Furthermore, Skvortsov received a huge round of applause from the aquatic crowd for his undisputed efforts and articulated that he would try hard to do the same in the playoff.
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