Marco Koch and Yuele Wu surge into final rounds - 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup
Germany’s Marco Koch and China’s Yuele Wu impressed the arena at the 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup series conducted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from October 7-8. The session of the meet conducted the Men’s 50m breast-stroke and Women’s 100m breast-stroke
heats series.
German athlete, Marco Koch was up against his strongest arch rivals, Nelson Westby of United States and South Africa’s Giulio Zorzi in the 50m breast-stroke heat, where Koch thrashed both of his competitors by hitting the finishing wall with a nerve-wrecking
mark of 28.04 seconds. Meanwhile, both Westby and Zorzi earned second and third positions with a mark of 28.19 seconds and 28.62 seconds, respectively.
United Arab Emirates’ Mubarak Al Besher and Syria’s Azad Albarazi wound up fourth and fifth with a mark of 28.88 seconds and 28.90 seconds, while India’s Jayaprakash Agnishwar settled for sixth spot in a time of 29.15 seconds. Joel Jinyang Tan of Singapore
got seventh position with a mark of 29.42 seconds, while United Arab Emirates’ Ahmed Obaid Al Jasmi earned eighth position in a time of 29.65 seconds. United Arab Emirates’ Obaid Al Saeed Jesmi finished ninth in a time of 30.41 seconds and Kenya’s Ramadhan
Vyombo settled for tenth position in 31.99 seconds.
In the second race, China’s Yuele Wu won the Women’s 100m breast-stroke heat with an astonishing mark of 1 minute and 07.60 seconds. China’s Rong Fan finished second in 1:08.06 minutes, while Russia’s Yulia Yefimova settled for third spot in a time of 1:08.36
minutes. China’s Xiaoyu Liu was placed fourth in a time of 1 minute and 08.49 seconds, whereas, Sweden’s Rebecca Ejdervik earned fifth position with a mark of 1 minute and 09.20 seconds.
Germany’s Caroline Ruhnau finished sixth in a time of 1 minute and 11.16 seconds, while German athlete Dorothea Brandt was placed seventh with a mark of 1 minute and 11.56 seconds. Tanja Smid of Slovakia, Hannah Taleb of United Arab Emirates, Lianna Swan
of Pakistan and Brooke Duncan Sarah of United Arab Emirates secured eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh positions with a mark of 1:12.11 minutes, 1:18.04 minutes, 1:20.32 minutes and 1:23.65 minutes, respectively.
The arena gave a huge round of applause to all swimmers due to their matchless performances in the heats series after the session’s completion. The 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup is a seven stop series which will host the next round in Stockholm, Sweden.
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