RICHARDSON AND GUEHRER FLY AUSSIE FLAG IN TOKYO
October 22: Kyle Richardson and Marieke Guehrer have continued Australia's sprint freestyle domination at the fourth leg of the 2010 FINA/ARENA Short Course Swimming World Cup in Tokyo.
Richardson sustained his recent good form, adding the 50 and 100m freestyle to his 100m victory in Singapore while Guehrer broken through for her first 2010 Series win in women's 100m freestyle.
Thiago Pereira (BRA) and Therese Alshammar (SWE) reinforced their lead of the overall rankings with
Pereira winning the 100m and 400m individual medley and Alshammar taking out the women's 50m and 100m butterfly.
Pereira leads the men's rankings on 88 points while Alshammar leads the women's on 80 points.
Host nation Japan collected eight gold medals at home, with the best male result going to Takeshi Matsuda in the 200m butterfly (1:50.64 - 959 FINA Points).
Besides Pereira's two wins, the remaining titles went to Richardson, Roland Schoeman (RSA) in the 50m breaststroke and 50m butterfly; Peter Marshall (USA) 100m backstroke; Steffen Deibler (GER), 100m butterfly and Markus Rogan (Austria) 200m individual medley.
In the women's field, the Japanese domination was clear, with eight victories.
The most valuable performance for the home stars went to Aya Terakawa in the 200m backstroke (2:03.62, 918 FINA Points and third best female result of this leg).
The United States won four gold medals (two for Julia Smit, and one for Jessica Hardy and Elaine Breeden).
Jennie Johansson (SWE) won the 50m breaststroke, while Hinkelien Schreuder (NED) took the 50m freestyle.
The last three meets of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2010 will now take place in Europe: Berlin (GER) October 30-31; Moscow (RUS) November 2-3; Stockholm (SWE) November 6-7.
FINA/ARENA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2010
4th Meet - October 20-21, 2010 in Tokyo (JPN)
WINNERS
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MEN (M) |
WOMEN (W) |
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50m free |
Kyle Richardson (AUS) 21.42 |
Hinkelien Schreuder (NED) 24.09 |
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100m free |
Kyle Richardson (AUS) 47.26 |
Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 53.17 |
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200m free |
Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 1:43.93 |
Haruka Ueda (JPN) 1:54.43 |
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400m free |
Sho Uchida (JPN) 3:43.38 |
Haruka Ueda (JPN) 4:06.57 |
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800m free (W) |
- |
Maiko Fujino (JPN) 8:26.24 |
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1500m free (M) |
Sho Uchida (JPN) 14:54.38 |
- |
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50m back |
Junya Koga (JPN) 23.58 |
Aya Terakawa (JPN) 26.66 |
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100m back |
Peter Marshall (USA) 50.94 |
Aya Terakawa (JPN) 56.90 |
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200m back |
Ryosuke Irie (JPN) 1:50.58 |
Aya Terakawa (JPN) 2:03.62 |
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50m breast |
Roland Schoeman (RSA) 26.42 |
Jennie Johansson (SWE) 30.47 |
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100m breast |
Ryo Tateishi (JPN) 57.43 |
Jessica Hardy (USA) 1:05.85 |
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200m breast |
Naoya Tomita (JPN) 2:03.18 |
Rie Kaneto (JPN) 2:20.83 |
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50m butterfly |
Roland Schoeman (RSA) 22.56 |
Therese Alshammar (SWE) 25.27 |
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100m butterfly |
Steffen Deibler (GER) 50.43 |
Therese Alshammar (SWE) 56.12 |
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200m butterfly |
Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 1:50.64 |
Elaine Breeden (USA) 2:04.54 |
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100m ind. medley |
Thiago Pereira (BRA) 52.84 |
Tomoko Hagiwara (JPN) 59.94 |
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200m ind. medley |
Markus Rogan (AUT) 1:53.85 |
Julia Smit (USA) 2:08.05 |
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400m ind. medley |
Thiago Pereira (BRA) 4:04.03 |
Julia Smit (USA) 4:27.70 |
Provisional leaders of the World Cup after the 4th meet:
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MEN |
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Swimmer |
Country |
Points |
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1. Thiago Pereira |
BRA |
88 |
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2. Darian Townsend |
RSA |
43 |
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3. Naoya Tomita |
JPN |
36 |
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WOMEN |
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Swimmer |
Country |
Points |
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1. Therese Alshammar |
SWE |
80 |
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2. Julia Smit |
USA |
50 |
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3. Hinkelien Schreuder |
NED |
27 |