Swimmers impress at the European SC Swimming Championships 2012 – Part 10
After the laudable efforts of Rikke Moeller Pedersen and Jeremy Stravius in the semi-finals of 100m breaststroke, Hungarian swimmer, Katinka Hosszu emerged on the starting blocks for the playoff of Women’s 100m Individual Medley (IM).
Being qualified as the top fastest swimmer, Hosszu was inevitably strong over her competitors for the crown of the shortest IM discipline.
She faced tough challenge from her teammate Zsuzsanna Jakabos in the semi-finals, but managed to outperform her over the wall for first position.
Likewise, Hosszu experienced strong resistance from her team-member but with her notable efforts, she managed to reach the finishing wall for the crown with a timing of 58.83 seconds.
The champion remained 0.98 seconds slower from the championship mark of 57.85 seconds, made by Hinkelien Schreuder of Netherlands in 2009.
Similarly, she was also 1.09 seconds slower from the European and World record of 57.74 seconds, also held by Schreuder during 2009.
Her gold claiming effort remained barely two arm-strokes ahead of Jakabos, who occupied silver medal of the race by producing an effort of 59.15 seconds.
Jakabos was traced by Siobhan-Marie O’Connor of Great Britain, who stepped on the medal rostrum for bronze medal by clocking an effort of 59.72 seconds.
O’Connor was followed by Emilia Pikkarainen of Finland, who was prominently slower from her and finished her race in fourth place by posting a time of 1 minute and 00.45 seconds.
Next was the Men’s 200m butterfly, where Laszlo Cseh of Hungary showed no mercy to his challengers and secured the crown. Cseh remained comfortably ahead of his challenger and tapped the wall with an effort of 1 minute and 52.11 seconds.
Cseh’s astonishing pace remained almost 2.50 seconds slower from the meet record of 1 minute and 49.46 seconds, set by Nikolay Skvortsov of Russia in 2009.
Similarly, she was also three seconds slower from the world mark of 1 minute and 49.11 seconds, made by Kaio Almeida of Brazil during November 2009.
Second position of the race was obtained by Danish expert, Viktor B. Bromer, who stayed prominently behind and transpired on the finishing end with the timing of 1 minute and 53.38 seconds.
Bromer was trailed by Dutch swimmer, Joeri Verlinden, who was only an inch behind and finished third in the race by producing a time of 1 minute and 53.47 seconds.
Verlinden was followed by Hungary’s Bence Biczo, who posted an effort of 1 minute and 53.64 seconds.
To be continued in Part 11.
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