Zebina Daria occupies Women’s 400m freestyle title: Day one – 2012 Ukraine Summer Cup
Zebina Daria of Cues occupied gold medal of the Women’s 400m freestyle on day one of the 2012 Ukraine Summer Cup in Kharkiv on Monday, May 7.
Daria, who just seized the title of 200m discipline, stunned the aquatic crowd with her blistering form in the mediocre distance freestyle event. With her immaculate efforts, she outperformed her challengers and reached the finishing end for gold medal.
She pocketed the crown of the event with the timing of 4 minutes and 14.96 seconds. Her scintillating effort remained nearly 10 seconds faster from her following swimmer, Anna Stetsenko of DON, who finished second in the event with the timing of 4 minutes
and 24.14 seconds.
Following that, the audience experienced gruelling efforts of RVN Marina’s Kirik, who proved her eligibility for third position of the discipline by posting a time of 4 minutes and 28.05 seconds.
The bronze medallist remained 2.18 seconds ahead of her former finisher and settled on the finishing end as fourth position holder by reporting a time of 4 minutes and 30.23 seconds.
Fifth position of the discipline was obtained by Oksana Kornienko of Cues, who remained almost 0.80 seconds away and completed her race in a time of 4 minutes and 31.01 seconds.
Kornienko was followed by Oksana Marchuk of RVN, who stayed 3.08 seconds slower and surfaced on the finishing end as sixth best finisher by producing a time of 4 minutes and 34.09 seconds.
Marchuk was trailed by Marina Sokolova of ANW, who tried hard to overwhelm her former finisher but failed to match her pace in the final lap. Sokolova remained 1.46 seconds apart and tapped the wall for seventh position by posting a time of 4 minutes and
35.55 seconds.
Last spot of the race was secured by Slobodyanyuk Kristina of ANW, who stayed half a second slower and clocked an effort of 4 minutes and 36.05 seconds.
In addition, the championship ended after the completion of all planned events in Men and Women’s corner while the position holders received awards and accolades for their astonishing efforts at the prize distribution ceremony of the championship.
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