Samantha Marshall clinches Women’s 50m breast-stroke title: Day three – Australian University Games
Australian female breast-stroke specialist, Samantha Marshall punished her competitors in the breast-stroke swim by clinching the title of Women’s 50m breast-stroke on final day of the 2011 Australian University Games. The meet was organised at Gold Coast
Aquatic Centre, Queensland, on Thursday, September 29.
University of Melbourne’s Samantha showed more urgency towards the finishing end as opposed to her following swimmers. This also helped her in lowering the championship record of the breast-stroke discipline, which was previously held by University of Queensland’s
Katherine Bigby, who clocked 33.79 seconds in 2001.
The 19-year-old student became the spotlight of media, when she touched the finishing wall and ended her swim to submit an astounding time of 33.05 seconds, an effort 0.74 seconds under the 10-year-old record.
Marshall proved her dominance over fellow swimmers by outshining in the preliminary rounds of the same event, where she hurried towards the wall with a fastest effort of 34.82 seconds.
Just after the start of the race, the champion rushed towards the finishing wall and with her excellent strokes, she flew away with the long standing record. Her underlining effort placed her 1.16 seconds ahead of her following competitor, Griffith University’s
Ashleigh McCleery, who grabbed the silver medal by reporting a time of 34.21 seconds.
Throughout the 50m event, McCleery tried her best to reach her former finisher but the impeccable champion gave her no room to take a lead and kept her at a comfortable distance by extending her lead into the second-half of the race.
In the meantime, McCleery faced drastic competition from University of Queensland’s Katrina Schieber, who ended her reign and engaged McCleery in a neck-to-neck race. However, Griffith’s candidate was lucky enough to ascend towards the finishing wall, out-touching
her closest rival with a difference of only 0.11 seconds and Schieber securing bronze medal with a 34.32 seconds effort.
Marshall received a huge round of applause from her followers at the medal ceremony, while the gold medallist asserted that she will work hard to get considerable results in future events.
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