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FINA World Cup 8 - Day 1
Feb 7, 2004 - Nick J Thierry - FINA Press Commission
RIO DE JANEIRO - Yana Klochkova (UKR) and Amanda Beard (USA) had the most exciting race on the finals of the 2004 FINA World Cup day 1 in the 200 individual medley.
Klochkova had to swim a fast time to move up in the points race where her 990 is only the third best performance in the four competitions she has competed. She is the number one individual medley swimmer in the sport and was racing Amanda Beard the long course world 200 breaststroke champion. It was a close race, with Klochkova taking the lead after the fly and back, Beard moving up on the breaststroke and coming close in the freestyle leg.
| Splits | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klochkova | 28.45 | 1:01.02 | 1:39.23 | 2:09.75 |
| Beard | 29.06 | 1:02.87 | 1:39.95 | 2:10.03 |
It was the top women's performance worth 991 points for Klochkova and 990 for Beard, not enough to move her up from third place in the performance category.
Amanda Beard won the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.53 earlier, and Klochkova added a win the 200 backstroke in 2:09.40.
Brazil won two golds, the first one from Flavia Delaroli in the 50 free in what was a close race between team mate Rebeca Gusmao in 24.87. Gusmao set a new South American record yesterday in the prelims with 24.81.
Camelia Potec (ROM) was a double winner, first in the 200 free in 1:55.81 over Johanna Sjoberg (SWE) with 1:56.47. Potec came from behind on the last 50 as Sjoberg went out in 56.51 to Potec's 57.22.
Potec then won the 800 free in 8:29.37, with teammate Simona Paduraru (ROM) in second with 8:38.97.
| Rating Summary of Top Women's Performances | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | 991 | 2:09.75 | 200 im W | Klochkova Yana,82,UKR |
| 2) | 990 | 1:55.81 | 200 free W | Potec Camelia,82,ROM |
| 3) | 988 | 2:10.03 | 200 im W | Beard Amanda,81,USA |
| 4) | 982 | 1:56.47 | 200 free M | Sjoberg Johanna,78,SWE |
| 5) | 966 | 24.83 | 50 free W | Delaroli Flavia,83,BRA |
| 6) | 963 | 24.87 | 50 free W | Gusmao Rebeca,84,BRA |
| 7) | 938 | 28.32 | 50 back W | Lee Nam-Eun,89,KOR |
| 8) | 934 | 8:38.97 | 800 free W | Paduraru Simona,81,ROM |
| 9) | 926 | 25.51 | 50 free W | Ryu Yoon-Ji,85,KOR |
| 10) | 925 | 25.52 | 50 free W | Gotz Daniela,87,GER |
Romania leads the medal table with 8 (5-1-2) as Dragos Coman won the 400 free, Razvan Florea the 100 back and Ioan Gherghel the 200 fly.
Jose Martin Meolans (ARG) won the 100 freestyle in 47.69 (22.42 split). It was the top men's performance but fell short of moving him up in the top performance category. He is currently in sixth position with a slightly faster 100 free time of 47.61 from Berlin during January.
George Bovell (TRI) was second in the 100 free in 48.81, and later won the 100 IM in 54.35, as Thiago Pereira (BRA) in second with 54.95 bettered the South American record.
| Rating Summary of Top Men's Performances | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | 979 | 47.69 | 100 free M | Meolans Jose M.,78,ARG |
| 2) | 963 | 3:44.54 | 400 free M | Coman Dragos,80,ROM |
| 3) | 960 | 54.35 | 100 im M | Bovell George,83,TRI |
| 4) | 958 | 1:55.64 | 200 fly M | Gherghel Ioan,78,ROM |
| 5) | 944 | 54.95 | 100 im M | Pereira Thiago,86,BRA |
| 6) | 944 | 48.82 | 100 free M | Tucker Scott,75,USA |
| 7) | 943 | 23.77 | 50 fly M | Almeida Kaio,84,BRA |
| 8) | 942 | 53.35 | 100 back M | Florea Razvan,80,ROM |
| 9) | 942 | 4:15.40 | 400 im M | Keller Christian,72,GER |
| 10) | 941 | 4:15.49 | 400 im M | Salatta Lucas,87,BRA |
The final World Cup competition attracted 200 swimmers with 108 from the host nation and 92 from 18 countries.
The second prelims will be today (Saturday Feb 7) at 6:30 pm with finals tomorrow at 10:00 am broadcast live on Rede Globo.
| WORLD CUP 8 MEDAL TOTALS after Day 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| ROM | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| BRA | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| USA | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| UKR | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GER | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| SWE | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| TRI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| ARG | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| KOR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FRA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| RSA | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| NOR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| CHN | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| RUS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | |
2004 FINA WORLD CUP 8 Rio de Janeiro, Feb 6-8 (25 m) Day 1 finals MEN 100 METRES FREESTYLE 1 47.69 Meolans Jose M.,78,ARG 2 48.81 Bovell George,83,TRI 3 48.82 Tucker Scott,75,USA 4 49.22 Souza Jader,82,BRA 5 49.32 Thiele Jens,80,GER 6 49.38 Castro Rodrigo,78,BRA 7 49.46 Wochomurka Ryan,84,USA 400 METRES FREESTYLE 1 3:44.54 Coman Dragos,80,ROM 2 3:48.87 Jones B.J.,83,USA 3 3:49.01 Diatchin Vladimir,82,RUS 4 3:51.53 Negreiros Armando,85,BRA 5 3:51.86 Starke Benjamin,86,GER 6 3:54.75 Luchnikov Maxim,87,RUS 7 3:54.95 Ryazanov Sergei,85,RUS 8 4:00.36 Noreng Ravn Jonas,83,NOR 100 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 53.35 Florea Razvan,80,ROM 2 53.66 Keil Dominik,85,GER 3 54.16 Zandberg Gerhard,83,RSA 4 54.34 Cao Xuewei,84,CHN 5 54.62 Massura Alexandre,75,BRA 6 55.12 Romero Rogerio,69,BRA 7 55.13 Otero Eduardo,80,ARG 8 55.21 Brodie Leith,86,AUS 50 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 27.63 Gangloff Mark,82,USA 2 27.65 Fischer Eduardo,80,BRA 3 27.75 Bao Jingtao,83,CHN 4 27.98 Duboscq Hugues,81,FRA 5 28.23 Hetland Alexsander,82,NOR 6 28.45 Lima Felipe,85,BRA 7 28.58 Dos Santos Felipe,79,BRA 8 28.68 Karfunkelstein Rogerio,76,BRA 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 2:12.19 Duboscq Hugues,81,FRA 2 2:12.48 Fischer Eduardo,80,BRA 3 2:13.26 Tomazini Marcelo,78,BRA 4 2:14.23 Neumann Johannes,85,GER 5 2:14.87 Comerford Rory,85,AUS 6 2:15.33 Wold Anders,81,NOR 7 2:15.80 Vincenzetti Olivier,78,GER 8 2:18.35 Daehli Lars Erik,82,NOR 50 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 23.77 Almeida Kaio,84,BRA 2 23.93 Dietrich Johannes,85,GER 3 24.06 Scherer Fernando,74,BRA 4 24.30 Gherghel Ioan,78,ROM 5 24.40 Souza Jader,82,BRA 6 24.43 Wochomurka Ryan,84,USA 7 24.55 Morgado Simao,79,POR 8 24.64 Cielo Cesar A.,87,BRA 200 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 1:55.64 Gherghel Ioan,78,ROM 2 1:57.21 Almeida Kaio,84,BRA 3 1:58.18 Dietrich Johannes,85,GER 4 1:59.71 Monteiro Luis,83,POR 5 2:00.22 Salatta Lucas,87,BRA 6 2:03.18 Mancio Wesley,85,BRA 7 2:03.39 Girotto Gustavo,82,BRA 8 2:03.99 Morgado Simao,79,POR 100 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 54.35 Bovell George,83,TRI 2 54.95 Pereira Thiago,86,BRA 3 55.46 Hetland Alexsander,82,NOR 4 55.63 Gangloff Mark,82,USA 5 55.69 Thiele Jens,80,GER 6 55.85 Bruckart Joe,81,USA 7 57.31 Brodie Leith,86,AUS 400 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 4:15.40 Keller Christian,72,GER 2 4:15.49 Salatta Lucas,87,BRA 3 4:17.45 Pereira Thiago,86,BRA 4 4:23.20 Goncalves Rafael,80,BRA 5 4:34.03 Schultz Andrea,88,BRA WOMEN 50 METRES FREESTYLE 1 24.83 Delaroli Flavia,83,BRA 2 24.87 Gusmao Rebeca,84,BRA 3 25.10 Sjoberg Johanna,78,SWE 4 25.51 Ryu Yoon-Ji,85,KOR 5 25.52 Gotz Daniela,87,GER 6 25.80 Roets Lauren,87,RSA 7 25.83 de Jesus Flavia,82,BRA 8 26.40 Ribeiro Talita,85,BRA 200 METRES FREESTYLE 1 1:55.81 Potec Camelia,82,ROM 2 1:56.47 Sjoberg Johanna,78,SWE 3 2:00.78 Paduraru Simona,81,ROM 4 2:01.28 Gotz Daniela,87,GER 5 2:01.72 Brochado Mariana,84,BRA 6 2:01.90 Ribeiro Paula,81,BRA 7 2:02.57 Fagundez Gabriella,85,SWE 8 2:04.49 Busso Natalia,86,BRA 800 METRES FREESTYLE 1 8:29.37 Potec Camelia,82,ROM 2 8:38.97 Paduraru Simona,81,ROM 3 8:46.04 Bardach Georgina,83,ARG 4 8:55.03 Kown You-Ri,88,KOR 5 9:06.15 Noda Taiane,87,BRA 6 9:06.83 Perez Monick,86,BRA 50 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 28.32 Lee Nam-Eun,89,KOR 2 28.70 Wittstock Charlene,78,RSA 3 29.17 Udroiu Raluca,79,ROM 4 29.29 Mensing Jenny,86,GER 5 29.33 Molina Fabiola,75,BRA 6 29.49 Lee Da-Hye,87,KOR 7 29.72 Ribeiro Talita,85,BRA 8 29.74 Crespo Laura,81,BRA 200 METRES BACKSTROKE 1 2:09.40 Klochkova Yana,82,UKR 2 2:12.03 Mensing Jenny,86,GER 3 2:12.06 Wittstock Charlene,78,RSA 4 2:12.24 Lee Da-Hye,87,KOR 5 2:12.65 Lee Nam-Eun,89,KOR 6 2:13.05 Udroiu Raluca,79,ROM 7 2:17.55 Little Candice,83,RSA 8 2:17.86 Alvarenga Fernanda,86,BRA 100 METRES BREASTSTROKE 1 1:06.53 Beard Amanda,81,USA 2 1:09.81 Helbig Sonja,87,GER 3 1:10.43 de Giovanni Agustina,85,ARG 4 1:10.57 Cho A-Ra,87,KOR 5 1:11.12 Wede Josefin,87,SWE 6 1:11.87 Katsuno Mariana,82,BRA 7 1:13.41 Kim Ji-Yeon,85,KOR 8 1:13.86 Guiscardo Liliana,81,ARG 100 METRES BUTTERFLY 1 58.33 Sjoberg Johanna,78,SWE 2 1:00.39 Loots Amanda,78,RSA 3 1:00.55 Molina Fabiola,75,BRA 4 1:01.30 Fagundez Gabriella,85,SWE 5 1:01.92 Dorr McCall,81,USA 6 1:01.98 Kown You-Ri,88,KOR 7 1:02.16 Kim Bo-Mi,89,KOR 8 1:02.18 Monteiro Ivi,84,BRA 200 METRES IND.MEDLEY 1 2:09.75 Klochkova Yana,82,UKR 2 2:10.03 Beard Amanda,81,USA 3 2:15.77 Maranhao Joanna,87,BRA 4 2:16.09 Loots Amanda,78,RSA 5 2:17.07 Eriksson Hanna,84,SWE 6 2:17.83 Jarland Elisabeth,85,NOR 7 2:17.94 Little Candice,83,RSA 8 2:18.31 Cho A-Ra,87,KOR
