Bruno Fratus excels in Men’s 50m freestyle semi-finals: Day six – FINA World Championships
Brazilian swimmer, Bruno Fratus dominated the semi-finals of Men’s 50m freestyle on the sixth day of the 2011 World Championships organised by Federation Internationale de Natation on Friday, July 29, in Shanghai, China.
Fratus occupied the top qualification spot in the final round by overwhelming the semi-finals, with a timing of 21.76 seconds. His time was 0.85 seconds away from the world record of 20.91 seconds, made by Cesar Cielo Filho of Brazil during 2009. In addition,
his timing was also 0.68 seconds behind the championship record of 21.08 seconds, set by Cielo Filho at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Fratus was followed by his strongest competitor and his team-member, Cielo, who stayed just 0.03 seconds behind him and earned the second finest qualification spot into the final rounds, by reporting in a time of 21.79 seconds. Cielo was trailed by American
swimmer, Nathan Adrian, who remained only 0.15 second behind the world record holder and entered the finals with a third fastest qualification time of 21.94 seconds.
For the fourth fastest spot of the swim, Luca Dotto of Italy and Krisztian Takacs of Hungary engaged in a neck-to-neck race, where both swimmers failed to overcome each other’s efforts and ended in a draw for fourth position. Dotto and Takacs occupied fourth
fastest qualification spot of the swim, as the finished their swims and touched the finishing wall to clock a same time of 21.97 seconds.
Similarly, for the sixth fastest spot, the arena witnessed another gruelling effort of Gideon Louw of Hungary and George Bovell of South Africa, who remained unsuccessful in escaping each other and qualified in a same time of 22.02 seconds. In the meantime,
French swimmer, Alain Bernard managed to enter the finals by claiming eighth fastest spot of the swim, as he stayed 0.05 seconds behind his preceding swimmers and reported in a time of 22.07 seconds.
The crowd appreciated the commendable swim of all swimmers, while these finalists will compete again with each other in the final round of 50m freestyle meet.
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