Swimmers impress at the European SC Swimming Championships 2012 – Part 5
The scintillating forms of Laszlo Cseh and Fabio Scozzoli played a vital role in elevating the expectations of the aquatic crowds, who then became thirsty for more swimming splash at the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
After the notable form of Scozzoli in the Men’s 100m breaststroke, the finalists of the Women’s 100m freestyle reached the starting blocks.
After being qualified as one of the top fastest swimmers, Veronika Popova and Jeanette Ottesen Gray were the top favourite swimmers to obtain the title.
Nevertheless, with her epic start, Popova gained a marginal lead over her challengers and surfaced on the finishing end for gold medal with the timing of 52.86 seconds. Her title claiming effort remained nearly 1.50 seconds slower from the European mark
of 51.19 seconds, owned by Francesca Halsall of Great Britain in 2009.
The champion also remained 1.51 seconds away from the championship mark of 51.35 seconds, owned by Inge Dekker of Netherlands from 2009. Similarly, her effort stayed 2.85 seconds away from the world record of 51.01 seconds, set by Lisbeth Trickett of Australia
during 2009.
Popova remained slightly ahead of Gray, who stepped on the victory stand for silver medal by producing a time of 53.13 seconds. Third spot of the race was obtained by Charlotte Bonnet of France, who stayed 0.10 seconds slower from her foregoing finisher
and touched the wall with an effort of 53.23 seconds.
Following that, the crowd welcomed the semi-finalists of Men’s 100m freestyle, where Russian swimmer, Vladimir Morozov was in the limelight for the fastest spot. After demonstrating his astonishing skills in the prelims, Morozov looked confident at the starting
blocks.
Morozov showed no mercy to his opponents in the sprint event as he earned his way into the playoff as top fastest swimmer by producing a time of 46.52 seconds.
His notable effort remained more than a second slower from the world record of 44.94 seconds, held by Amaury Leveaux of France from 2008.
Morozov was chased by Evgeny Lagunov of Russia, who remained marginally slower and proved his mettle for second fastest spot of the race by clocking a time of 46.76 seconds.
Lagunov was traced by Yannick Agnel of France, who remained only 0.20 seconds behind and touched the wall for third position with an effort of 46.96 seconds.
Fourth fastest spot of the discipline was secured by Luca Dotto of Italy, who completed his race in a time of 47.14 seconds.
Next was the Women’s 100m backstroke playoff, where Daryna Zevina of Ukraine upset her opponents by dominating her way towards the finishing wall for gold medal.
Zevina was more than half a second ahead of her closest competitor as she tapped the wall for gold medal with an effort of 57.07 seconds.
Her gold claiming effort remained barely 0.70 seconds slower from the European mark of 56.36 seconds, owned by Ksenia Moskvina of Russia from 2009.
She also stayed almost two seconds away from the world record of Japanese swimmer, Shiho Sakai, who posted 55.23 seconds in November 2009.
In the meanwhile, French swimmer Laure Manaudou proved his mettle for silver medal by reporting a time of 57.70 seconds.
Third spot of the discipline was obtained by Simona Baumrtova of Czech Republic, who completed her race in a time of 58.08 seconds.
To be continued in Part 6.
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