Gergo Kis and Filippo Magnini dominate swimming event – European LC Championships

Gergo Kis and Filippo Magnini dominate swimming event – European LC Championships

Gergo Kis of Hungary and Filippo Magnini of Italy dominated the playoffs of Men’s 800m freestyle and 100m freestyle at the European Long Course Championships.

The European championships are of utmost importance as they provide a chance to their swimmers to identify their shortcomings and overcome them before the 2012 London Olympic Games in July.

Kis stayed considerably ahead of his closest swimmer and hit the finishing blockade with the timing of 7 minutes and 49.46 seconds for the title of the event.

His stupendous  effort remained almost three seconds faster from Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri, who followed Kis on the victory stand for silver medal by producing a time of 7 minutes and 52.23 seconds.

The second position holder was chased by Sergiy Frolov, who stayed almost half a second apart and settled on the finishing end as third best swimmer by submitting a time of 7 minutes and 52.81 seconds.

Following that, Magnini upset his challengers and earned gold medal of the Men’s 100m freestyle by hitting the finishing wall with the timing of 48.77 seconds.

With his invincible effort, he stayed nearly 0.20 seconds ahead of France’s Alain Bernard, who secured silver medal of the event by posting a time of 48.95 seconds.

The second position holder was followed by Norbert Trandafir, who was only two strokes away and secured his spot on the victory stand for third position by reporting a time of 49.13 seconds.

Subsequently, Ingvild Snildal overshadowed her challengers in the Women’s 100m butterfly playoff. With her astounding pace, Snildal succeeded in edging out her strongest competitor over the finishing end for gold medal by clocking a time of 58.04 seconds.

She was traced by Martina Granstroem, who captured silver medal of the race by clocking a time of 58.07 seconds.

Bronze medal of the discipline was gained by Amit Ivri, who suffered a deficit of 0.71 seconds from her former finisher and hit the wall with the timing of 58.78 seconds.

Furthermore, the session ended after the completion of all listed events in men and Women’s corner.

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Posted by Mursil Mehmood Butt on May 26 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry