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FINA World Cup 1 - Day 1 Backstroke Reswim
Nov 17, 2002 - Nick J. Thierry - Swimnews / FINA Press Commission
Haley Cope (USA) was not happy to reswim an event in which she won the first time around. The circumstances were as follows. The starting device malfunctioned which affected some of the swimmers who were not sure that the race was underway. There was no way to recall the swimmers as the false start rope failed to fall.
The race was rescheduled for the conclusion of the afternoon prelims, which started at 5:30pm. The race took place after 8pm with few spectators remaining and it was a scortcher. Haley Cope just took off and had a huge lead at the turn increasing it towards the finish touching in 27.21. It was her best ever and the third fastest all-time. Two years ago she held the world record with a 27.25.
When asked how come, "I was mad at having to swim a second time."
50 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 27.21 Cope Haley,79,USA 2 28.36 Wittstock Charlene,78,RSA 3 28.49 Zhivanevskaya Nina,77,ESP 4 28.77 Fernandez Serrana,73,URU 5 29.34 Hanson Pamela,79,USA 6 29.36 Crespo Laura,81,BRA 7 29.79 Ribeiro Talita,85,BRA 8 dns Molina Fabiola,75,BRA
| ALL TIME 50 METRES BACKSTROKE 10 PERFORMANCES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26.83 | SHANGDEC | Hui Li,CHN | SCM02 |
| 2 | 27.06 | EURSCDEC | Ilona Hlavackova,CZE | SCM02 |
| 3 | 27.21 | RIONOV | Haley Cope,USA | SCM03 |
| 4 | 27.26 | BERLNJAN | Jennifer Carroll,CAN | SCM02 |
| 5 | 27.27 | EURSCDEC | Sandra Volker,GER | SCM99 |
| 6 | 27.29 | EMEADNOV | Natalie Coughlin,USA | SCM02 |
| 7 | 27.60 | WORLDAPR | Diana MacManus,USA | SCM02 |
| 8 | 27.61 | WNCAAMAR | Catherine Fox,USA | SCM00 |
| 9 | 27.62 | BERLNFEB | Barbara Bedford,USA | SCM00 |
| 10 | 27.64 | DESENMAR | Xiuyu Bai,CHN | SCM94 |
This swim moved her ahead of Yana Klochkova's 200 IM, giving her the best performance after all finals on Day 1.
| RATING SUMMARY OF TOP PERFORMANCES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | 999 | 27.21 | 50 back W | Cope Haley 79,USA |
| 2) | 979 | 2:11.23 | 200 im W | Klochkova Yana 82,UKR |
| 3) | 974 | 1:07.10 | 100 breast W | Beard Amanda 81,USA |
| 974 | 47.84 | 100 free M | Meolans Jose M. 78,ARG | |
| 5) | 969 | 3:43.75 | 400 free M | vdHoogenband Pieter 78,NED |
| 6) | 961 | 4:12.72 | 400 im M | Wu Peng 87,CHN |
| 961 | 48.27 | 100 free M | Neethling Ryk 77,RSA | |
| 8) | 960 | 2:10.41 | 200 breast M | Duboscq Hugues 81,FRA |
| 960 | 1:07.73 | 100 breast W | Hanson Brooke 78,AUS | |
| 10) | 959 | 2:08.98 | 200 back W | Wittstock Charlene 78,RSA |
| 959 | 2:10.52 | 200 breast M | Rickard Brenton 84,AUS | |
