Russia lifts Men’s 4x100m Medley crown: Day seven – 2011 World Deaf Swimming Championships
Russia stunned the crowd on day seven of the 2011 World Deaf Swimming Championships in Coimbra, Portugal, on Saturday, August 13. The final session of the meet conducted the Men’s 4x100m Medley event, where Russia’ Ivan Kassin and Ruslan Lebedev won the
golden crown by posting a record time of 3 minutes and 57.00 seconds.
More importantly, Kassin beat the previous best time of 4 minutes and 08.30 seconds, set back in 2007. While revealing about the splash in the meet, Kassin stated that they indeed swam their heart out to win the title.
In the corresponding meet, Scot Matchett and Marcus Titus of United States secured the silver medal by submitting a striking time of 4 minutes and 00.44 seconds. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Natalchuk and Andriy Zurgalidze grabbed bronze medal after they
touched the wall in a time of 4 minutes and 01.47 seconds.
Great Britain’s pair of Alexander Cranford and Jack Mccomish finished fourth in a time of 4 minutes and 12.46 seconds. Cheng Pan and Min Yu Huang of Chinese Tapei rounded out the top five in the splash by posting an impressive time of 4 minutes and 25.05
seconds, whereas, Kazakhstan’s Nurlan Zhassanov and Viktor Frundin were placed sixth in the stage in a time of 5 minutes and 19.44 seconds.
In the meantime, Metin Arda Soyusu and Murat Hakki Sakar of Turkey earned seventh spot in a time of 5 minutes and 19.93 seconds. Portugal’s pair of Tiago Neves and Ricardo Belezas wound up eighth by posting a time of 5 minutes and 22.68 seconds.
Earlier in the day, Rebecca Meyers of United States snared the Women’s 400m freestyle crown of the meet by submitting a record time of 4 minutes and 31.70 seconds. That swim beat her previous best time of 4 minutes and 34.32 seconds. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s
Anna Tovsta hit the finishing wall in 4 minutes and 36.41 seconds to claim silver medal and Great Britain’s Hannah Fitton clinched bronze after she ended her swim in a time of 4 minutes and 39.98 seconds.
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