Zebina Daria seizes Women’s 200m freestyle title: Day one – 2012 Ukraine Summer Cup
Zebina Daria of Cues seized gold medal of the Women’s 200m freestyle on initial day of the 2012 Ukraine Summer Cup in Kharkiv on Monday, May 7.
Daria remained comfortably ahead of her challengers and faced no trouble in clinching gold medal of the event.
With her stupendous efforts, she served notice of her talent and sprinted her way towards the finishing end for gold medal by submitting a wonderful time of 1 minute and 59.55 seconds.
Her title claiming effort was trailed by Dikidzhi Catherine of RVN, who was almost four seconds slower and emerged on the finishing end for silver medal by reporting a nice time of 2 minutes and 03.51 seconds.
With her immaculate efforts, the silver medallist remained just 0.48 seconds faster from Glavnik Irina of Cues who submitted an effort of 2 minutes and 03.99 seconds for bronze medal of the discipline.
Meanwhile, the crowd witnessed a mind-blowing struggle of Podlisna Cues of Valery, who stayed just a stroke away from securing bronze medal of the discipline. Podlisna remained just 0.16 seconds behind her foregoing finisher and clocked a time of 2 minutes and 04.15 seconds for fourth position.
Fifth fastest spot of the event was secured by Sheiko Alina of ARC, who was almost a body length slower from her preceding swimmer and tapped the wall with the timing of 2 minutes and 05.08 seconds.
Similarly, Alina was followed by Oksana Marchuk of RVN, who was 0.36 seconds behind and ended her sprint in a time of 2 minutes and 05.44 seconds for sixth position.
Yanhicher Barbara of DON emerged on the finishing end as seventh best finisher. Barbara remained a full body length behind and tapped the wall with the timing of 2 minutes and 06.70 seconds.
She was followed by Pikiner Irina of DPR, who stayed almost 1.60 seconds slower and hit the wall with an effort of 2 minutes and 08.36 seconds for eighth position.
In addition, the position holders were awarded medals and accolades for their notable efforts in the 200m event at the prize distribution ceremony of the championship.
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