Swimming World Cup: Macintosh starts a campaign of control strongly … and Lydiki warns her
The amazing and promising Canadian Samer Macintosh started the World Swimming Championships in Singapore with a busy program, and the American Katy Lydiki will face a face later on Sunday, in a renewed competition since the Paris Olympics.
Canadian Macintosh, 18, and the American champion Lydiki, will meet with a decade, on the first day, the World Cup competition for the 400m free race.
Macintosh holds the world record for the distance, and is a candidate for winning, especially with the absence of Australian Arren Titmos, who won the gold medal in the Paris Olympics, which won a long vacation after the last summer games.
Macintosh won the silver medal in the French capital, Khalaf Tammos, while Lydiki ranked third in her three weakest free swimming races.
In the morning qualifiers on the opening day of the competitions in Singapore, Lydiki, who won nine Olympic gold medals, launched early warning and qualified as soon as possible to the final round of 400 m in 4: 01.04 minutes, leading the third group qualifiers.
Macintosh achieved the fourth best timing in the qualifiers with a time of 4: 03.11 minutes when it came again in the fourth group behind Australian because the Palletter (4: 02.36 d).
“It is always good to finish the first race, and I look forward to the rest of the week,” said Lydiki, one of the best swimmers of the ages.
With the last hours approaching the 400m free swimming race, she added, “It will be a great race, with the participation of many distinguished swimmers. The race is expected to be fun and fast. ”
Macintosh, which shattered three world records within days in Canadian experiences in preparation for the world championship, began her program to qualify as the second fastest swimming to the semi -finals of the 200m diverse race, which is another race with the record.
With a busy day in the pool in front of her, Macintosh had a lot of enthusiasm to reach the semi -finals with a time of 2: 09.46 d, with a slight difference from Australian Tara Kinder.
Macintosh, who won three gold medals alongside her silver medal in the French capital, seeks a year ago when she became a game stories, to win five individual titles next week.
It also reached the semi -finals of the 200m and promising Chinese running, Jo Zaidi, who is only 12 years old.
Zaidi opened her championship by qualifying with a small difference with a time of 2: 11.90 d, in a race that was not the strongest.
The Chinese student will also participate in a variety of 400m and 200m butterfly.
In men, the German Olympic champion and the new world record holder, Lucas Martins, is the most prominent candidate to win a 400m free race later on Sunday.
Martins reached the final round by second in the final ranking with a time of 3: 43.81 minutes when the Group F qualifiers are issued, knowing that his global record is 3: 39.96 d, while the first place to his main Australian opponent, Sam Short (3: 42.07 d), the leaders of the fourth group.
The Short citizen, Elijah Winington, who won the silver medal in Paris, suddenly failed to qualify for the final round.
