Russians go 1-2 in the women’s 50 free at WUGs (Race video)

2015 WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES

Excerpt taken from Day Seven Finals Recap:

WOMEN’S 50 FREE – FINAL

Rozaliya Nasretdinova of Russia won her first individual gold of the meet with a 24.91, the only swimmer under 25.0.  That time puts her in the top 20 in the world this year.  Her teammate Eilzaveta Bazarova picked up the silver medal with a time of 25.05.  Holly Barratt of Australia touched third in 25.08 to win her third different medal this week, each in a different stroke.  Each of the medalists recorded a new personal best in the event.

Austria’s Birgit Kochischek placed 4th (25.17), followed by the two Americans, Abbey Weitzeil (25.27) and Madeline Locus (25.30).  Italy’s Aglaia Pezzato (25.42) and France’s Lauriane Haag (25.54) finished 7th and 8th.

 

Race video comes to us courtesy of Universiade 2015 on YouTube. You can find this video and more videos from swimming and other sports at the 2015 World University Games by following this link to the Universiade 2015 YouTube page.

Our full World University Games coverage is here, and the day 7 finals recap is here.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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