Rebecca Pegg wins Women’s 800m freestyle gold: Day three – 2011 Australian University Games
Australia’s emerging distant freestyle swimmer, Rebecca Pegg made her present felt to the arena in the Women’s 800m freestyle playoff, as she seized gold medal of the discipline on third day of the 2011 Australian University Games. The meet was held at Gold
Coast Aquatic Centre, in Queensland, on Thursday, September 29.
While representing University of Queensland, Pegg denied the furious efforts of her ruthless opponents and sprinted her way to the finishing wall with timing of 9 minutes and 14.80 seconds.
However, the champion stayed prominently behind the championship mark of 8 minutes and 45.74 seconds, but her immaculate win in the 800m freestyle discipline made her the spotlight of arena, as this was her first victory.
Pegg faced stiff competition from her rival, University of Sydney’s Meagan Ramsay, in the first-half of the race. In the beginning, Ramsay put up strong resistance against her challenger but she failed to sustain her speed in the second-half.
At one fell swoop, 18-year-old Pegg proved her determination for the crown by sprinting towards the finishing wall, leaving Ramsay 11.95 seconds behind.
During the exhausting battle of 16-laps, Ramsay geared up her swim as she badly needed to get back on track but the overcoming efforts of her foregoing competitor were inevitable, which kept Sydney’s pupil considerably away. With Pegg’s continuous reign,
Ramsay found it hard to get near the Queenslander and she ended up second, clocking 9 minutes and 26.75 seconds for silver medal.
Subsequently, Ramsay’s frenzy struggle was nearly twelve seconds superior to her following swimmer, University of Melbourne’s Nicolette Lyttle, who acquired the podium for bronze medal. Lyttle submitted a third fastest time of 9 minutes and 38.06 seconds
to be the third podium finisher.
Pegg was overjoyed with her remarkable effort in the respective meet, but the teenager realises that in order to elevate in the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) ranking chart, she will have to improve her timing by almost one minute. Nonetheless,
the winner demonstrated her overpowering efforts and is determined to excel in her future endeavours.
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