True to form
World Champs lead the way at short course meet
Posted: Wednesday March 03, 1999 05:54 PM
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The Netherlands' Marcel Wouda was dominant in the 400 medley. Ben Radford/Allsport |
IMPERIA, Italy (AP) -- Defending world champions Marcel Wouda,
Agnes Kovacs and Denys Sylantiev took the limelight Wednesday in
the opening events of the two-day World Cup short course swimming
competition in this Italian Riviera resort.
Wouda, the Dutch holder of the world 200-meter medley title, won
over the double distance in 4:10.97 minutes as he beat German
runnerup Christian Keller by nearly two seconds.
Hungary's Kovacs dominated the women's 100-meter breaststroke in
one minute, 7.06 seconds as Olympic champion Amanda Beard of the
United States finished a distant fifth, 2.9 seconds behind the
winner.
Ukrainian Sylantiev beat Russians Anatoli Poliakov and Alexander
Gorguraki in the 200-meter butterfly, clocking a winning time of
one minute, 54.94 seconds.
Other winners in the 12th and last stage of the 1999 World Cup
included Mette Jacobsen of Denmark and Sweden's Johanna Sjoberg in
the women's 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly respectively.
Italy's Domenico Fioravanti upset European champion Patrik
Isksson in the 50 breaststroke, edging the Swedish opponent by
0.36 seconds.
Another Italian, Emiliano Brembilla, beat Chad Carvin of the
United States in the 400 freestyle.
Brembilla won the race in 3:45.08 minutes. Carvin was timed in
3:45.65.
Eighteen races are scheduled on the closing day Thursday.
| World Cup Short Course Results |
Men
50 breaststroke: 1, Domenico Fioravanti, Italy, 28.05 seconds.
2, Patrik Isaksson, Sweden, 28.41. 3, Kevin Kling, United States,
28.42. 4, (tie) Roman Havralnt, Czech Republic, 28.46. 4, Patrick
Fowler, United States, 28.46. 6, Hugues Dubosco, France, 28.67. 7,
Richard Maden, Britain, 28.72. 8, Ismael Garcia, Spain, 28.96.
100 freestyle: 1, Denis Pimankov, Russia, 48.82. 2, Sergei
Ashikhmin, Russia, 49.25; 3, Sion Brinn, Britain, 49.64. 4,
Alexander Luderitz, Germany, 49.72. 5. Roman Egorov, Russia, 49.76.
6, Mauro Gallo, Italy, 49.84. 7, Alexei Egorov, Russia, 49.87. 8,
Michael Mintenko, Canada, 49.89.
100 backstroke: 1, Sergei Ostapchuk, Russia, 54.08. 2, Yong Fu,
China, 54.53. 3, Timslav Karlo, Croatia, 54.92. 4, Guillermo
Mediano, Spain, 55.02. 5, Rogerio Romero, Brazil, 55.44. 6, Nicolae
Butacu, Romania, 55.45. 7, Carlos Ramos, Spain, 55.47. 8, Neil
Willey, Britain, 56.07.
200 breaststroke: 1, Dmitri Komornikov, Russia, 2:08.99. 2,
Pavel Anokhin, Russia, 2:10.80. 3, Stephan Perrot, France, 2:11.63.
4, Domenico Fioravanti, Italy, 2:13.06. 5, Hugues Dubosco, France,
2:13.60. 6, Dario Farabegoli, Italy, 2:13.92. 7, Marcel Wouda,
Netherlands, 2:15.73. 8, Matthew Huang, Canada, 2:15.94.
200 butterfly: 1, Denys Syalantiev, Ukraine, 1:54.94 minutes. 2,
Anatoli Poliakov, Russia, 1:55.81. 3, Alexander Gorguraki, Russia,
1:57.37. 4, Xufeng Xie, China, 1:58.06. 5, Denis Pankratov, Russia,
1:58.73; 6, Vladan Markovic, Yugoslavia, 1:59.59. 7, Jorge Perez,
Spain, 2:00.84. 8, Georgios Popotas, Greece, 2:02.31.
400 freestyle: 1, Emiliano Brembilla, Italy, 3:45.08. 2, Chad
Carvin, United States, 3:45.65. 3, Luiz Lima, Brazil, 3:49.98. 4,
Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy, 3:50.84. 5, Dimitris Maganas, Greece,
3:52.30. 6, Davide Bicchierini, Italy, 3:53.00. 7, Athanasios
Ikonomov, Greece, 3:55.05. 8, Luis Rodriguez, Spain, 3:55.25.
400 medley: 1, Marcel Wouda, Netherlands, 4:10.97. 2, Christian
Keller, Germany, 4:12.81. 3, Alessio Boggiatt, Italy, 4:16.12. 4,
Istvan Bathazi, Hungary, 4:16.24. 5, Massimiliano Eroli, Italy,
4:21.84. 6, Darren Wigg, Britain, 4:2309. 7, Terence Parkin, South
Africa, 4:25.13. 8, Aleksandar Miladinovski, Macedonia, 4:28.07.
Women
50 freestle: 1, Sandra Volker, Germany, 25.00. 2, Viviana
Susin, Italy, 25.63. 3, Cristina Chiuso, Italy, 25.94. 4, Ilona
Hlavackova, Czech Republic, 25.96. 5, (Tie), Agnieszica
Braszkiewicz, Poland, 26.07. 5, Urska Slapsak, Slovenia, 26.07. 7,
Lacey Bautwell, United States, 26.18. 8, Vivienne Rignall, New
Zealand, 26.43.
50 backstroke: 1, Ilona Hlavackova, Czech Republic, 28.88. 2,
Alessandra Cappa, Italy, 29.20. 3, Alenka Kejzar, Slovenia, 29.31.
4, Kerry Jiggins, Britain, 29.48. 5, Rowena Cornish, Breitain,
29.65. 6, Kail Stewart, Canada, 29.77. 7, federica Barsanti, Italy,
29.99. 8, Francesca Bissoli, Italy, 30.35.
100 butterfly: 1, Johanna Sjoberg, Sweden, 58.63. 2, Hunko
Onishi, Japan, 59.54. 3, Mette Jacobsen, Denmark, 1:00.13. 4, Mandy
Loots, South Africa, 1:00.29. 5, Katrin Jake, Germany, 1:00.31. 6,
Caroline Foot, Britain, 1:01.82. 7, Ning Hu, China, 1:01.88. 8,
Anna Nyiry, Hungary, 1:02.18.
100 breaststroke: 1, Agnes Kovacs, Hungary, 1:07.06. 2, Sarah
Poewe, South Africa, 1:08.41. 3, Sylvia Gerasch, Germany, 1:09.44.
4, Xue Han, China, 1:09.50. 5, Amanda Beard, United States,
1:09.96. 6, Olga Molchanova, Russia, 1:10.20. 7, Federica Biscia,
Italy, 1:10.56. 8, Natasa Kejzar, Slovenia, 1:10.88.
200 freestyle: 1, Mette Jacobsen, Denmark, 1:57.81. 2, Silvia
Szalai, Germany, 1:58.85. 3, Nadezhda Chemezova, Russia, 1:58.99.
4, Natasha Bowron, Australia, 1:59.19. 5, Nicola Jackson, Britain,
1:59.20. 6, Yulia Fomenko, Russia, 2:00.19. 7, Yekaterina Kibalo,
Russia, 201.18. 8, Jessica Craig, Britain, 2:02.39.
200 medley: 1, Yana Klochkova, Ukraine, 2:12.01. 2, Yasuko
Tajima, Japan, 2:13.93. 3, Emily Zakrisson, Sweden, 2:15.15. 4,
Yoshiko Saito, japan, 2:16.32. 5, Ivette Maria, Spain, 2:16.79. 6,
Amanda Beard, United States, 2:17.06. 7, Katia Sarakatsani, Greece,
2:17.25. 8, Nicola Jackson, Britain, 2:18.32.
800 freestyle: 1, Eva Risztov, Hungary, 8:32.40. 2, Rebecca
Cooke, Britain, 8:36.06. 3, Sarah Collings, Britain, :37.76. 4,
Nathalie Brown, Britain, 8:39.58. 5, Vesna Stojanovska, Macadonia,
8:54.14. 6, Athina Soolti, Greece, 8:56.95.
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