Laszlo Cseh conquers Men’s 400m IM gold medal: Day five – 2011 World University Games
Laszlo Cseh conquered the final of Men’s 400m Individual Medley (IM) and captured the gold medal of the discipline on day five of the 2011 World University Games, which took place in Shenzhen, China.
Cseh of Hungary occupied gold medal of the event with a timing of 4 minutes and 12.67 seconds. His time was just 0.39 seconds away from the Game Record of Mateusz Matczak from Poland, who clocked a time of 4 minutes and 12.28 seconds for gold medal of the
same event in 2009. In addition, his timing was also nearly nine seconds above the world mark of 4 minutes and 03.94 seconds, set by Michael Phelps of USA in 2008.
The Hungarian was trailed by Yuya Horihata of Japan, who remained 0.99 seconds slower than him and reached the podium for silver medal, with a timing of 4 minutes and 13.66 seconds. Horihata was chased by William Harris of USA, who was 1.74 seconds behind
the silver medallist and completed his swim in a third fastest time of 4 minutes and 15.40 seconds.
Cseh gained a comfortable lead over his fellow competitors in the start of the race, as he ended his initial 100 metres of the IM swim in a time of 56.96 seconds. He was followed by Horihata, who acquired second fastest spot of the event by finishing his
initial round in 57.83 seconds. Furthermore, the Hungarian sustained his position in the second round, where he ended his swim in a time of 2 minutes and 01.82 seconds, as compared to Horihata’s 2 minutes and 02.36 seconds effort.
Cseh repeated the same in the third round of the race, while he extended his lead to 0.99 seconds in the fourth round to earn the title of the event over the Japanese swimmer.
Hiromasa Fujimori of Japan was the fourth position holder of the event, as he remained considerably away from the third finisher and posted a time of 4 minutes and 18.04 seconds. Fujimori was followed by Lewis Smith of Great Britain and Carlos Vives Gomis
of Spain, who obtained fifth and sixth fastest positions of the swim, with timings of 4:18.84 and 4:22.07 minutes, respectively.
They were followed by Ilya Volovnik of Russia and William Cregar of USA, who settled as the seventh and eighth position holders of the event by producing timings of 4:22.98 and 4:23.31 minutes, respectively.
Furthermore, the meet ended after astonishing efforts of all participants, whereas, the winners were called upon the victory stand for their notable swims after the session’s completion.
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