Yannick Lebherz captures Men’s 200m freestyle gold – 2013 Arena Grand Prix
Yannick Lebherz of Germany captured gold medal of the Men’s 200m freestyle on opening day of the 2013 Arena Grand Prix in Colorado, USA, on Thursday, February 14.
The 24-year-old Lebherz showed no mercy to his opponents in the four-lap discipline as he rushed his way towards the finishing wall for gold medal. He faced strong competition from his opponents in the 200m discipline but with his notable pace, he managed
to outperform him over the finishing wall for gold medal.
His commendable pace remained almost half a body length ahead of his toughest challenger, as Lebherz occupied gold medal by producing an effort of 1 minute and 49.48 seconds.
He was followed by Conor Dwyer of Una Gsc-FL and Robert Hurley of Australia, who engaged each other in a neck-to-neck race for second position. Both swimmers tried hard to overpower each other but failed to do so and finished second in the race.
They stayed 0.33 seconds slower from their preceding swimmer and surfaced on the wall for silver medals by clocking an effort of 1 minute and 49.81 seconds.
Fourth position of the race was obtained by Michael Klueh of Australia, who was nearly full body length slower and tapped the wall with the timing of 1 minute and 50.61 seconds.
Klueh was chased by Ryan Lochte of Daytona Beach Swim Club, who stayed 0.17 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and transpired on the finishing end for fifth position by producing an effort of 1 minute and 50.78 seconds.
Sixth fastest spot of the race was obtained by Tyler Clary of Club Wolverine-M, who stayed 0.21 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and tapped the wall with an effort of 1 minute and 50.99 seconds.
Similarly, Clary was traced by Charlie Houchin of Ix# Sports-NC, who stayed 0.07 seconds slower from his foregoing finisher and touched the wall with the timing of 1 minute and 51.06 seconds for seventh place.
Last spot of the event was obtained by Ryan Cochrane of Island Swimming, who ended his race in a time of 1 minute and 51.57 seconds.
In addition, Lebherz was happy with his marvellous effort at the prize ceremony of the session.
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