Chinese swimmers win four out of seven golds ( 2003-12-06 11:28) (Xinhua)
Chinese swimmers flexed their muscle Friday on the second day of
competition in the World Military Games pool as they won four of seven
tightly contested finals.
Qi Hui led in the women's 100-meter breaststroke, timing one minutes,
10.30 seconds to edge Svitlana Bondarenko of Ukraine on one minutes 11.35
seconds.
Russian Ekaterina Kormatcheva was beaten to third with one minutes
13.52 seconds.
And China's Zhou Yafei took gold in the women's 100 butterfly in 59.32
seconds, leading Natalia Soutiaguina and Irina Bespalova of Russia.
Zhou also set the new record of the World Military Games.
Early on Friday, Zhao Tao claimed the men's 200m backstroke title in two
minutes and 02.33 seconds and his compatriot Cheng Jiaru won in the
women's 100m freestyle with 56 seconds.
Russia picked up two golds in the men's finals, with Pavel Balachov
winning the 100m freestyle and Roman Ivanovski edging out his compatriot Sergey
Gerasimov in a hotly contested 100m breaststroke.
Sergiy Advena of Ukraine won the men's 200m butterfly race 2:00. 47, touching
home just ahead of Italian Francesco Vespe and Luca Gardonio.
The swimming program continues Saturday with finals in men's 400 and
women's 400 freestyles, the women's 200m medleys and
relays.