Over the past two days, we have seen lots of National records come down. South Africa has received a lot of attention this week, but several other countries have been performing very well.
Egypt’s Farida Osman became the first from their team to make it into a final this week. Not only did she make it into the final, she broke the previous African Record, swimming a time of 26.12. Two years ago, Osman was the Junior World Champion in this event with a time of 26.69.
FARIDA OSMAN IS THE FIRST EGYPTIAN SWIMMER TO QUALIFY FOR A FINAL AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY!!!!!
South America’s Roland Schoeman also tied his African Record in the men’s 50 freestyle. He finished seventh in the semi-finals in 21.67 and will be the top seed going into finals tomorrow. That final will be very competitive. Florent Manadou had the fastest time in the semi-final, with a time of 21.37. All eight finalists are within .37 seconds.
Records:
- Roland Schoeman ties African Record – 50 Free – 21.67
- Farida Osman – Africa Record – 50 Fly – 26.12
- Mohamed Khaled – Egyptian National Record – 200 IM – 2:02.29
- Egypt – Men’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay – 7:31.60
- Sean Gunn – Zimbabwe National Record – 50 Free – 23.25
- Sean Gunn – Zimbabwe National Record – 100 Freestyle – 51.94
- Ralph Goviea – Zambian National Record – 100 fly – 57:66
It’s nice to see some good news for a change about Egypt. They are experiencing some very tough times right now.
It’s also encouraging to see these times and records from emerging swimming nations. Tunisia has Mellouli, Zimbabwe with Kirsty, Kenya has Dunford and now Egypt has a world class swimmer as well with Farida.
Farida’s twitter account:
https://twitter.com/FaridaOsman18
Happiest place in Egypt right now.
FaREEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I take my chances and wildly assume that you must be a fan of farida
It’s chilled! Just ensuring he gets his moment of fame he deserves like the rest of the athletes! : ) thanks for all the updates you guys are awesome!
Congrats to Osman, well done.
As said above, CAL will have a very deep team
Ralph Goviea – Zambian National Record – 100 fly – 57:66
Thanks Swimpolopolo, I missed this one in the results.
Isnt she going to CAL?
CAL’s depth in back in unfathomable, and very scary in fly and free.
All they need is breast specialist to ensure total absolute dominance.
Yes she is going to Cal! Terri and Dave will definitely find themselves to be back on top with the amazing recruits from the Class of 2013. Go bears!
Watch out Michealvic Phelps.