Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid and Sun Ye win gold medals in Women’s events - World University Games
Melania Felicitas Costa Schmid of Spain and Sun Ye of China clinched gold medals of Women’s 200m freestyle and 200m breast-stroke meets on day three of the 2011 World University Games, which concluded on Tuesday, August 16, in Shenzhen, China.
Costa Schmid was the fastest swimmer of the freestyle discipline, as she won the gold medal of the event by clocking a magnificent time of 1 minute and 57.98 seconds. Her time was 1.21 seconds slower than her closest competitor, Lauren Boyle of New Zealand,
who ended up second with a timing of 1 minute and 59.19 seconds. She was followed by Karlee Bispo of USA, who stepped on the medal rostrum for third position by submitting a time of 1 minute and 59.31 seconds.
Bispo was trailed by Boyle’s team-member, Natasha Hind, who remained 0.25 seconds slower than the bronze medallist and secured fourth position of the event by producing a time of 1 minute and 59.56 seconds. She was followed by Qianwei Zhu of China, who was
the fifth fastest swimmer of the freestyle discipline, as she remained 0.99 seconds away from Hind and clocked a time of 2 minutes and 00.55 seconds. Next was Margaux Farrell of France, who surfaced as the sixth fastest swimmer of the event and ended her swim
in a time of 2 minutes and 00.65 seconds.
In the Women’s 200m breast-stroke, Ye conquered the gold medal of the four-lap swim by submitting a fastest time of 2 minutes and 24.63 seconds. Ye was in a lead of 1.55 seconds over Andrea Kropp of USA, who posted a second fastest time of 2 minutes and
26.18 seconds for the silver medal. Satomi Suzuki of Japan emerged as the third position holder of the event, as she earned the bronze medal with a timing of 2 minutes and 26.67 seconds.
In the meantime, she was trailed by Tera Colleen Van Beilen of Canada, who remained only 0.11 seconds slower than the third finisher and posted a time of 2 minutes and 26.78 seconds. Darae Jeong of Korea was the fifth finest swimmer of the event, as she
produced a time of 2 minutes and 27.14 seconds. Meanwhile, Sara El Bekri of Morocco concluded her swim in the sixth place, as she was 1.65 seconds slower than her preceding swimmer and submitted a time of 2 minutes and 28.79 seconds.
The crowd enjoyed the furious efforts of all participants, while the winners of both events were called upon the victory stand for their immaculate swims after the session’s completion.
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