Jamaica's Alia Atkinson in Second Place after FINA World Cup 25m in Tokyo, Japan

Jamaica's Alia Atkinson in Second Place after FINA World Cup 25m in Tokyo, Japan
  
 
 
 
Saturday & Sunday (November 9+10)
 
FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP 2013
Four WR highlight successful rendezvous in Tokyo (JPN)
Lausanne (SUI), November 10, 2013 – The seventh leg of the FINA Swimming World
Cup 2013, on November 9-10 in Tokyo (JPN) was highly successful, producing four new
World Records and three World Cup records. Individually, Yulia Efimova, from Russia, set
a world mark in the women’s 50m breaststroke, while Australia was outstanding in the
mixed relays. At the end of the two-day rendezvous, both Katinka Hosszu (HUN) and
Chad Le Clos (RSA) reinforced their lead of the third cluster and of the overall ranking of
the competition.
On Day 1, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta established a new World Cup record in the men’s 200m breaststroke, getting the gold in 2:01.30. The Magyar swimmer improved his own mark set in August in Berlin (GER), during the second leg of the series, where he had swum the distance in 2:01.37. The second World Cup of the session was obtained by Alicia Coutts, from Australia, in the women’s 100m butterfly – 55.30, better than the 55.46 set in November 2009 by her compatriot Felicity Galvez in Stockholm (SWE).  Australia continued to shine by improving the World Record in the mixed 4x50m medley relay, in a time of 1:37.84, faster than the previous best of 1:38.02 set also by the Australians in Singapore (SIN) on November 5. Moreover, Chad Le Clos had three wins – men’s 50m and 200m butterfly, and 400m IM -, and Katinka Hosszu established the most valuable performance of the day, clocking 2:04.52 in the women’s 200m IM (1001 points).
On Day 2, Yulia Efimova clocked 28.71 in the 50m breaststroke, bettering the previous WR set by Jessica Hardy (USA) in November 2009, in a time of 28.80. The remaining two WR of the competition were established by the mixed 4x50m free relay of Australia, first setting a new best mark of 1:31.13 in the heats and then further improving it on a 1:29.61 effort in the finals.  Kosuke Hagino made the day for the Japanese fans, with a new World Cup record in the men’s 200m IM, touching in 1:51.50, faster than the time recorded (1:51.55) by Darian Townsend (RSA) in November 2009. Almost at the end of the meet, Hosszu and Coutts
shared the best performance of the meet, after their joint win in the 100m IM – 57.53, worth 1010 FINA Points.
The FINA Swimming World Cup will conclude in Beijing (CHN), on November 13-14, 2013.
 
WINNERS

50m free Vladimir Morozov (RUS) 20.72 Cate Campbell (AUS) 23.47
100m free Vladimir Morozov (RUS) 45.65 Cate Campbell (AUS) 51.31
200m free Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS) 1:42.56 Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 1:53.12
400m free Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS) 3:38.39 Lauren Boyle (NZL) 3:57.68
800m free (W) - Lauren Boyle (NZL) 8:06.15
1500m free (M) Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 14:32.88 - 50m backstroke Eugene Godsoe (USA) 23.07 Etiene Medeiros (BRA) 26.61
100m backstroke Eugene Godsoe (USA) 49.87 Daryna Zevina (UKR) 56.87
200m backstroke Masaki Kaneko (JPN) 1:49.76 Daryna Zevina (UKR) 2:01.70
50m breaststroke Roland Schoeman (RSA) 26.12 Yulia Efimova (RUS) 28.71*
100m breaststroke Christian Sprenger (AUS) 57.14 Alia Atkinson (JAM) 1:02.99
200m breaststroke Daniel Gyurta (HUN) 2:01.30** Yulia Efimova (RUS) 2:17.37
50m butterfly Chad Le Clos (RSA) 22.26 Sarah Sjoestroem (SWE) 24.91
100m butterfly Chad Le Clos (RSA) 49.01 Alicia Coutts (AUS) 55.30**
200m butterfly Chad Le Clos (RSA) 1:50.33 Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 2:04.03
100m ind. Medley Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 51.58 Katinka Hosszu (HUN) & Alicia Coutts (AUS) 57.53
200m ind. Medley Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 1:51.50** Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 2:04.52
400m ind. Medley Chad Le Clos (RSA) 3:59.23 Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 4:25.97
Mixed 4x50m free Australia 1:29.61*
Mixed 4x50m medley Australia 1:37.84*
* World Record
** World Cup Record
 
Provisional leaders of the Cluster after the 7th meet:
MEN
Swimmer Country Points
1. Chad Le Clos RSA 179
2. Vladimir Morozov RUS 105
3. Daniel Gyurta HUN 81
WOMEN
Swimmer Country Points
1. Katinka Hosszu HUN 180
2. Alicia Coutts AUS 87
3. Yulia Efimova RUS 86
Provisional leaders of the World Cup after the 7th meet:
MEN
Swimmer Country Points
1. Chad Le Clos RSA 511
2. Vladimir Morozov RUS 345
3. Robert Hurley AUS 252
WOMEN
Swimmer Country Points
1. Katinka Hosszu HUN 759
2. Alia Atkinson JAM 255
3. Mireia Belmonte ESP 238