Swimmers impress at the European SC Swimming Championships 2012 – Part 4
After the impeccable efforts of Lotte Friis and Melanie Henique in their respective events, Men’s 400m Individual Medley (IM) became the centre of attention for the audience.
The event featured commendable swimmers like Laszlo Cseh, David Verraszto, Gal Nevo and Chris Christensen, who were in the limelight to dominate the playoff.
The audience was thrilled with the presence of Hungarian star, Laszlo Cseh, who qualified into the playoff as top fastest swimmer. Cseh continued his unravelling efforts in the final round, showing no mercy to his challengers and reached the top of medal
rostrum for gold medal by producing a nice time of 4 minutes and 00.99 seconds.
His splendid performance remained 3.72 seconds slower from his own European and championship record of 3 minutes and 57.27 seconds, made by Cseh in 2009. Subsequently, he remained 5.44 seconds away from the world mark of Ryan Lochte, who posted a time of
3 minutes and 55.50 seconds in Dubai during December 2010.
Cseh was followed by his compatriot, Verraszto, who stayed more than 1.50 seconds behind and surfaced on the finishing end for second position with a fantastic timing of 4 minutes and 02.54 seconds.
He stayed significantly slower from Israeli swimmer, Nevo, who stepped on the victory stand for bronze medal by producing a wonderful time of 4 minutes and 04.80 seconds.
Similarly, Christensen failed to reach the victory stand and settled on the finishing wall for fourth position by producing a time of 4 minutes and 06.51 seconds.
Afterwards, the audience witnessed scintillating form of Denmark’s Rikke Moeller Pedersen in Women’s 200m breaststroke. Pedersen remained prominently ahead of his opponents as he tapped the wall for the title by clocking an effort of 2 minutes and 17.26
seconds.
With her exceptional efforts, she remained only 0.60 seconds slower from her own European and championship mark of 2 minutes and 16.66 seconds, owned by Pedersen from 2009.
She also remained nearly three seconds slower from the world mark of Rebecca Soni of USA, who clocked an effort of 2 minutes and 14.57 seconds in December 2009.
Pedersen remained more than three body lengths ahead of Marina Garcia Urzainqui of Spain, who finished second in the race by producing an effort of 2 minutes and 20.57 seconds.
Third fastest spot of the race was obtained by Ganna Dzerkal of Ukraine, who concluded his race in a time of 2 minutes and 21.94 seconds.
Next was the Men’s 100m breaststroke, where Italian veteran, Fabio Scozzoli stifled hopes of his challengers and raked the title. Scozzoli remained in a prominent lead over his opponents from the start as he touched the wall for the crown with an effort
of 57.25 seconds.
Scozzoli’s undisputed effort remained 0.96 seconds slower from the European mark of 56.29 seconds, made by Robin Aggele of Netherlands in 2009.
He was almost 1.60 seconds slower from the world record of Cameron van der Burgh, who posted 55.61 seconds in November 2009.
He enjoyed an advantage of half body length over his following swimmer, Martti Aljand of Estonia, who occupied silver medal of the race by producing a time of 57.75 seconds.
Aljand remained only an inch faster from Giacomo Perez Dortona of France, who submitted a time of 57.76 seconds for bronze medal.
To be continued in Part 5.
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