Megan Romano and Emily McClellan win gold medals – US Open Swimming Championships

Monday, August 13th, 2012 3:46:54 by

Megan Romano and Emily McClellan win gold medals – US Open Swimming Championships

Megan Romano and Emily McClellan won gold medal of the Women’s 200m freestyle and Women’s 100m breaststroke respectively at the 2012 US Open Swimming Championships.

Firstly, Romano showed her eagerness to the crowd for the title of the event. With her alluring efforts, she showed no mercy to her opponents and tapped the wall for the crown of the event with an effort of 1 minute and 57.54 seconds.

The champion was followed by the fastest qualifying swimmer, Chelsea Chenault, who failed to maintain her spot in the playoff and settled on the finishing end as silver medallist by reporting a time of 1 minute and 58.41 seconds.

Chenault was traced by Sarah Henry, who suffered a loss of only 0.14 seconds from her former finisher and ended third in the discipline by producing a time of 1 minute and 58.55 seconds.

Fourth fastest spot of the race was obtained by Catherine Breed, who remained just 0.07 seconds slower from overpowering the bronze medallist and transpired on the finishing wall with an effort of 1 minute and 58.62 seconds.

After that, McClellan proved her dominance for gold medal of the 100m breaststroke. she faced no difficulty in seizing gold medal of the discipline as she outperformed her rivals with a timing of 1 minute and 07.43 seconds.

Her struggle remained almost 0.70 seconds faster from Laura Sogar, who followed McClellan on the victory stand for second position by posting a time of 1 minute and 08.18 seconds.

The second position holder was chased by Ellyn Baumgardner, who was just 0.07 seconds slower from her foregoing finisher and touched the wall with a timing of 1 minute and 08.25 seconds for bronze medal.

Sogar was followed by Aisling Scott, who stayed 0.82 seconds away from upsetting the third position holder and finished her race in fourth place by producing a time of 1 minute and 09.07 seconds.

Furthermore, the position holders received medals and accolades for their notable efforts at the medal distribution ceremony of the event after the session.

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