Tamas Sors captures Men’s 100m butterfly gold – 2012 Paralympic Games
Tamas Sors of Hungary captured gold medal of Men’s 100m butterfly in S9 category on first day of the swimming events at the 2012 London Paralympic Games in Aquatics Centre on Thursday, August 30.
The Hungarian swimmer faced strong battle from Matthew Cowdrey of Australia throughout the race but with his strong determination, Sors managed to earn his way to the top of medal rostrum for gold medal.
With his persistent efforts, Sors remained one stroke ahead of his following swimmer and hit the wall for the title of the event with a timing of 59.54 seconds.
The gold medallist was followed by Cowdrey, who remained 0.37 seconds slower from his former swimmer and tapped the wall for second position by clocking a time of 59.91 seconds.
The Australian swimmer was followed by Federico Morlacchi of Italy, who stayed nearly one body length behind and emerged on the finishing blockade for bronze medal by submitting a time of 1 minute and 00.77 seconds.
Morlacchi was chased by Jose Antonio Mari Alcaraz of Spain, who stayed only 0.21 seconds slower and settled on the wall as fourth fastest swimmer by reporting a time of 1 minute and 00.98 seconds.
Fifth position of the race was secured by Alcaraz’s team-member, Jesus Collado, who stayed 0.30 seconds slower and tapped the wall with an effort of 1 minute and 01.28 seconds.
Collado was chased by Brenden Hall of Australia, who stayed 0.03 seconds slower and hit the wall for sixth best place by clocking a time of 1 minute and 01.31 seconds.
Seventh position of the event was obtained by Tamas Toth of Hungary, who stayed nearly two body lengths slower and tapped the wall with an effort of 1 minute and 03.07 seconds.
Last spot of the race was obtained by Andriy Sirovatchenko of Ukraine, who remained 0.56 seconds away from his former finisher and posted a time of 1 minute and 03.63 seconds.
In addition, Sors was overjoyed with his gold finish in the butterfly event and articulated that he would struggle hard to achieve the same in forthcoming swimming competitions.
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