Yin Fan seizes Women’s 50m freestyle gold – FINA Swimming World Cup, Beijing
Yin Fan seized gold medal of the Women’s 50m freestyle on foremost day of the sixth stop of the 2012 FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup Series in Beijing, China on Friday, November 2.
Fan spoiled the party of her challengers in the shortest freestyle discipline as she was eager to secure the title. With her relentless efforts in the two-lap race, she gained a slight lead over her strongest opponent in the start and managed to outsmart
her for the title.
She remained only a touch ahead of her toughest competitor and stepped on the medal rostrum for gold medal with a timing of 24.47 seconds.
The gold medallist was followed by Inge Dekker of Netherlands, who stayed 0.06 seconds slower from her foregoing finisher and surfaced on the wall for silver medal with a timing of 24.53 seconds.
The silver medallist was chased by Ying Zhang, who suffered a loss of only 0.07 seconds from her foregoing finisher and proved her eligibility for bronze medal by touching the wall with an effort of 24.60 seconds.
Zhang was traced by Shuyi Li, who stayed only 0.18 seconds apart and settled on the wall as fourth fastest swimmer by producing a time of 24.78 seconds.
Similarly, fifth position of the race was obtained by Jessica Hardy of USA, who stayed 0.29 seconds apart and concluded her race in fifth best place by posting a time of 25.07 seconds.
Sixth spot of the event was secured by Yufei Zhang, who remained 0.07 seconds slower and clocked an effort of 25.14 seconds.
Zhang remained only 0.10 seconds faster from Melanie Schlanger of Australia, who managed to obtained seventh spot of the event by reporting a time of 25.24 seconds.
Eighth fastest spot of the race was obtained by Ruiqi Wang, who failed to make any improvement in her qualification time and finished last in the race by posting a time of 25.26 seconds.
In addition, Fan expressed happiness over her victory in the event and articulated that she would continue her struggle in order to impress her fans by achieving the same in subsequent stops of Series.
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