WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 07-08-15

WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP

AWSOME LITTLE KID

 

Ten-year-old Alzain Tareq from Bahrain became the youngest swimmer to compete at a World Championships when she took part in the 50m butterfly heats.

Tareq, whose mother is Scottish, finished last in 41.13 seconds, the slowest of all 64 swimmers in Kazan.

Her goal is to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

""The other swimmers are often surprised, they ask me my name and how old I am and then they are like, 'Are you swimming here?'

"I feel so happy. I want to learn the techniques and how they swim."

FINA World Championships, Kazan:

 

There were no major results yesterday but a few races were raced earlier today

One of the gods of swimming Ryan Lochte from the USA won the 200 metre butterfly with a time of 1minute 55.810secs, followed by Thiago Pereira from Brazil with a time of  1 minute 56.650, in third position was  Shun Wang from China with a time of  1 minute b56.810 seconds

In one of the fastest races of the meet the Men's 100m Freestyle Zetao Ning from China won with a time of 47.840 seconds followed by   Cameron Mcevoy from Australia with a time of 47.950 in third place Santo Condorelli from Canada with a time of 48.190 seconds

In the Women's 200m Butterfly Natsuml Hoshi from Japan won with a time of 2 minutes 5.560secconds in second place was Camille Adams from the USA with a time of  2minutes 06.400 seconds and in third was   Yufei Zhang from China with a time of   2 minutes 06.510 seconds

In the Women's 50m Backstroke Yuanhui Fu from China won gold with a time of  27.110 seconds , 2 in silver position was Etiene Medeiros from Brazil with a time of  27.260 seconds and in third was  Xiang Liualso from China with a time of 27.580secconds

In the Women's 4x200m Freestyle the  United States won gold with a time of   7mins 45.370 seconds in silver position was Italy 7:48.410 and bronze went to  China  with a time of 7:49.100 seconds