Swimmers shine in swimming events: Santa Clara International Grand Prix – Part 4
After the completion of Men’s 400m freestyle, the spectators shifted their focus towards Women’s 100m butterfly that included great American swimmers, Dana W Vollmer and Natalie A Coughlin.
The audience was excited to see the ruthless aggression both swimmers in the playoff of the seventh event of the session.
Vollmer was considered top favourite swimmer to gain the crown of the 100m event. She continued her nerve-wrecking form in the double lap butterfly event and transpired on the finishing end for gold medal by clocking a wonderful time of 57.03 seconds.
Her immaculate effort remained 0.97 seconds slower from the world mark of 56.06 seconds, set by Sara Sjolstrom of Sweden during the 2009 Rome World Championship.
Her title-claiming effort was approximatly 0.56 seconds away from the American mark of 56.47 seconds, owned by Vollmer from 2011 world titles. Similarly, she stayed only 0.39 seconds slower from the US Open record of 56.64 seconds, held by Inge de Bruijn of Netherlands from 2000.
The gold medallist was followed by Coughlin of California Aquatics, who stayed 1.41 seconds apart and emerged on the finishing end for silver medal by producing a superb time of 58.44 seconds.
The second position holder was followed by Jasmine Tosky of Palo Alto Stanford, who more than a body length apart and stepped on the medal rostrum for bronze medal of the discipline by clocking a nice time of 59.63 seconds.
Next was the equivalent event in Men’s category, where Thomas A Shields of California Aquatics spoiled the party of his challengers and transpired on the victory stand for gold medal of the event.
He made no mistake in the final round and showed a considerably improvement in his timing by submitting a time of 53.02 seconds.
His title claiming effort remained nearly three seconds slower from the world record of 49.82 seconds, owned by Michael Phelps from the 2009 Rome World Championships.
His superb effort also remained 2.80 seconds slower from the US Open mark of 50.22 seconds, which is also owned by Phelps from 2009.
The gold medallist remained 0.56 seconds slower from Robert L Bollier of Unattached-PC, who occupied second position of the discipline by reporting a time of 53.58 seconds.
Bollier was chased by David P Russell of California Aquatics, who stayed 0.40 seconds slower from his preceding swimmer and surfaced on the finishing end as bronze medallist by posting a time of 53.98 seconds.
In the meantime, relay squad of Hong Kong dominated the playoff of Women’s 400m freestyle relay. The team remained comfortably ahead of her opponents and hit the finishing blockade with the timing of 3 minutes and 48.15 seconds for gold medal.
Their gruelling effort remained almost two seconds ahead of ‘A’ squad of Palo Alto Stanford-PC, who made their way to the finishing end for second position by submitting a time of 3 minutes and 50.47 seconds.
Subsequently, ‘B’ team of Palo Alto Stanford-PC, who suffered a deficit of nearly four seconds from their former finishers and settled on the finishing end as third best finisher with the timing of 3 minutes and 54.41 seconds.
Fourth position of the discipline was secured by Santa Clara-PC, who stayed almost three seconds apart and completed their race with the timing of 3 minutes and 57.30 seconds.
To be continued in Part 5.
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