Swimmers impress at FINA Swimming World Cup, Beijing – Part 2
The incredible form of Katinka Hosszu in the opening event of the FINA/Arena World Cup series cheered the crowd. The intense competition between Hosszu and Siyu Yan added stars to the importance of the series and the expectations of the spectators elevated.
Nevertheless, with her exhausting schedule, Hosszu was unable to reach the podium in the Women’s 200m freestyle, as she was just a fraction away from the third position holder.
The Hungarian specialist was exhausted after the 800m discipline and thus failed to outsmart her challengers over the finishing end.
After the 200m freestyle, Men’s 100m freestyle attracted the attention of the audience, where the Australian swimmer, Tommaso D’Orsogna was in the limelight for the crown.
D’Orsogna was expected to face tough battle from his competitors but the Australian star, showed no mercy to his rivals and with his unrelenting performance, clinched gold medal of the race.
He remained prominently ahead of his opponents from the start and rushed his way towards the finishing wall for the title with the timing of 47.06 seconds.
His alluring effort remained nearly 1.50 seconds slower from the world cup record of 45.46 seconds, owned by Matthew Abood of Australia from 2009. His gold finish was almost 2.10 seconds away from the world record of 44.94 seconds, set by Amaury Leveaux
of France in 2008.
D’Orsogna was chased by compatriot, Cameron McEvoy, who stepped on the victory stand for silver medal by producing a time of 47.41 seconds.
McEvoy enjoyed an advantage of 0.18 seconds over his team-member, Kenneth To, who earned his way to the medal rostrum for bronze medal by clocking a time of 47.59 seconds.
Moments later, the audience saw ruthless efforts of New Zealand’s Matthew Stanley in the Men’s 400m freestyle. The Kiwi swimmer remained comfortably ahead of his opponents from the start and secured the top of podium for gold medal with an effort of 3 minutes
and 40.74 seconds.
His marvellous effort remained almost eight seconds slower from the championship and world record of 3minutes and 32.77 seconds, held by Paul Biedermann of Germany from 2009.
Stanley was followed by American swimmer, Michael Klueh, who captured second fastest spot of the race by producing a time of 3 minutes and 41.62 seconds.
Subsequently, Klueh remained only a stroke ahead of China’s Yunqi Li, who finished third in the race with a timing of 3 minutes and 41.83 seconds.
After that, Chinese swimmer, Zhixian Yang dominated the playoff of Men’s 400m Individual Medley (IM). Yang devastated hopes of his rivals in the distant IM event as he went on a rampage in the playoff. He experienced no challenge from his opponents and clocked
a time of 4 minutes and 05.62 seconds for gold medal.
His title claiming effort remained almost 10 seconds away from the world mark of 3 minutes and 55.50 seconds, set by Ryan Lochte of USA in 2010.
Yang was chased by Australia’s Travis Mahoney, who stayed considerably slower but managed to secure silver medal of the race by submitting a time of 4 minutes and 09.69 seconds.
Third position of the event was gained by Feilian Mao, who was prominently away from his foregoing finisher and reached the wall with the timing of 4 minutes and 10.68 seconds.
To be continued in Part 3.
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