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World Cup 3 in Edmonton - Day 1 Finals
Nov 18, 2000
EDMONTON - Just over 200 swimmers are competing in the third stage of the 2000-2001 FINA World Cup, including Olympic medallists Martina Moravcova (SVK) and Ed Moses (USA). 12 countries in addition to Canada sent swimmers. Participating Countries
Host Canada is competing with 31 national team members, 20 members of the National Junior Team and over a 100 club swimmers from across the country.
Spectator attendance was 1075 paying customers, for 78% of the available seats. Interest was heightened by the top performance prizes for men and women being two automobiles, an Acura 1.7 EL worth approximately $ Cdn 25,000 each.
The meet is being televised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for its Saturday afternoon sport program, to be shown shortly. The CBC will be showing highlights from five Swimming World Cup in the future.
| MEDAL TOTALS up to EVENT 17 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL | |
| CAN | 9 | 5 | 5 | 19 |
| SVK | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GER | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| AUS | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| USA | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| BRA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| CHN | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| ITA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GBR | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | |
Higlights of the first day's final were the iron lady display from Martina Moravcova who won three events in the space of less than than two hours.
She won the 200 free with 1:56.39 for 991 points (the top performance of the first day) with the medal winners under two minutes (Yang Yu, CHN second with 1:57.81 and Karen Pickering, GBR third in 1:58.99). Moravcova than won the 100 fly in 58.62 and completed the evening with a 24.97 win in the 50 free. It was a virtuoso display for the double Olympic silver medallist, "I was tired after my third win," Moravcova said. "I didn't have enough rest between meets." She was tired from competing on Wednesday-Thursday at World Cup 2 at the University of Maryland.
Ed Moses USA) had the top men's performance in winning the 50 breaststroke with 27.49 worth 971 points.
Women's swimming was of slightly higers standard today. The 200 free was the toughest event but Marianne Limpert (CAN) was in good form in her specialty the 200 IM, as she was on record pace for the first half. After just a few weeks of light swimming she had an easy win in 2:11.78, a personal best. She scratched from the 200 free earlier.
Jennifer Fratesi, (CAN) won the 200 backstroke in 2:09.79 a four second improvement of the best of 2:13.49 from this same meet a year ago.
Brian Johns (CAN) won the men's 400 freestyle in 3:52.13 and added the 100 IM in 56.41.
Perhaps the best race of the evening was the men's 200 breaststoke where three swimmers battled throughout the distance. Chad Thomsen, 17 (CAN) touched in 2:12.07 ahead of Fabio Farabegoli (ITA) 2:12.32 and Olympic Team member Morgan Knabe (CAN) with 2:12.84.
| Rating Summary of Top Performances | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | 991 | 1:56.39 | 200 free W | Martina Moravcova, 76,SVK |
| 2) | 975 | 2:11.78 | 200 IM W | Marianne Limpert, 72,CAN |
| 3) | 973 | 1:57.81 | 200 free W | Yu Yang, 85,CHN |
| 4) | 971 | 27.49 50 | breast M | Ed Moses, 80,USA |
| 5) | 965 | 2:09.79 | 200 back W | Jennifer Fratesi, 84,CAN |
| 6) | 959 | 1:58.99 | 200 free W | Karen Pickering, 71,GBR |
| 7) | 956 | 59.47 | 100 fly W | Annika Mehlhorn, 83,GER |
| 8) | 954 | 28.35 | 200 back W | Jennifer Carroll, 81,CAN |
| 9) | 953 | 27.83 | 50 breast M | Morgan Knabe, 81,CAN |
| 10) | 950 | 2:12.07 | 200 breast M | Chad Thomsen, 83,CAN |
| 11) | 949 | 8:36.13 | 800 free W | Nayara Ribeiro, 84,BRA |
| 12) | 947 | 2:12.32 | 200 breast M | Fabio Farabegoli, 76,ITA |
| 947 | 1:08.62 | 100 breast W | Sylvia Gerasch, 69,GER | |
| 14) | 946 | 1:57.73 | 200 fly M | Heath Ramsay, 81,AUS |
