Kazuya Kaneda wins Men’s 200m butterfly gold – FINA Swimming World Cup, Tokyo
Kazuya Kaneda of Japan won gold medal of the Men’s 200m butterfly on initial day of the seventh stop of the 2012 FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup Series in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, November 6.
Kaneda showed no mercy to his opponents in the distant butterfly discipline and cruised his way towards the finishing blockade for gold medal.
With his commendable form, he remained in a considerable lead over his closest competitor and surfaced on the wall for gold medal with a wonderful timing of 1 minute and 51.08 seconds.
The gold medallist was chased by his teammate, Yuuki Kobori, who stayed 1.84 seconds slower form his teammate and surfaced on the wall as second best finisher by producing a time of 1 minute an 52.92 seconds.
The silver medallist was chased by Kou Fukaya of Japan, who was 0.82 seconds behind and tapped the wall for bronze medal with a timing of 1 minute and 53.74 seconds.
Fourth fastest spot of the race was obtained by Kenta Hirai of Japan, who stayed half a body length slower from his teammate and surfaced on the finishing blockade with a timing of 1 minute and 55.22 seconds.
Hirai was chased by Christopher Wright of Australia, who was 0.52 seconds slower and surfaced on the wall as fifth position holder by clocking an effort of 1 minute and 55.74 seconds.
Sixth position of the race was obtained by Kazuki Kasai of Japan, who was one and a half body length behind and clocked an effort of 1 minute and 57.19 seconds.
Kasai was chased by Mizuki Itou of Japan, who remained 1.72 seconds away from upsetting his preceding swimmer and hit the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 58.91 seconds for seventh position.
Last spot of the race was obtained by Hiroto Seta of Japan, who was 0.06 seconds slower from his former finisher and clocked an effort of 1 minute and 58.97 seconds.
In addition, Kaneda received huge admiration from the audience for his relentless efforts and said that he would train harder to attain the same in future events.
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