Yang Sun excels in Men’s 400m freestyle heats: Day one – 2011 FINA World Championships
Yang Sun of China excelled his performance in the Men’s 400m freestyle preliminary rounds on the initial day of the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) organised 14th World Long Course Championships in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, July
24.
With his undisputed efforts in the qualifying rounds, the 19-year-old Sun overwhelmed the effort of his strongest competitor and world record holder, Paul Biedermann of Germany. Sun won the first round by submitting a remarkable effort of 3 minutes and 44.87
seconds. His time was 4.80 seconds behind Biedermann’s world mark of 3 minutes and 40.07 seconds, which he set at the 2009 Rome World Championships.
The Chinese swimmer was only 0.15 seconds away from his following swimmer, Peter Vanderkaay of USA, who claimed the second fastest qualification spot, by submitting a time of 3 minutes and 45.02 seconds. Moments later, the arena’s favourite and owner of
the world record, Biedermann, who stayed only 0.16 seconds behind Vanderkaay, posted a third fastest time of 3 minutes and 45.18 seconds to enter into the final.
They were followed by 2008 Beijing Olympics Men’s 1500m freestyle gold medallist, Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia, who remained 0.72 seconds slower than his preceding swimmer and completed his swim in a fourth best time of 3 minutes and 45.90 seconds. Sebastien
Rouault of France emerged as the fifth fastest qualifying swimmer, as he completed his swim in a time of 3 minutes and 46.20 seconds. In the meantime, Rouault’s team-member, Yannick Agnel appeared on the finishing wall for the sixth best spot, with a timing
of 3 minutes and 46.72 seconds.
Korean swimmer, Park Tae Hwan was the seventh finest swimmer of the qualifying rounds, as he submitted a time of 3 minutes and 46.74 seconds. The eight qualifying spot was secured by Ryan Cochrane of Canada, who reported a time of 3 minutes and 46.88 seconds.
The arena was pleased with the impressive efforts of all qualifying swimmers, as they are expected to put up a better show in the final round of the event.
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