Katinka Hosszu and Nikolay Skvortsov grab gold medals – FINA Swimming Championships

Katinka Hosszu and Nikolay Skvortsov grabbed gold medals of Women’s 100m butterfly and Men’s 200m butterfly at the 2012 FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Turkey.

With her unrelenting efforts in the 100m discipline, Hosszu enjoyed a lead of half body length over her closest competitor and transpired on the finishing wall for the title with the timing of 56.72 seconds.

The champion was traced by Aliaksandra Herasimenia, who stayed 0.33 seconds behind and surfaced on the finishing end for silver medal by producing an effort of 57.05 seconds.

The silver medallist was trailed by Veronika Popova, who remained 0.79 seconds slower from her foregoing finisher and surfaced on the finishing end for bronze medal by clocking an effort of 57.84 seconds.

The bronze medallist was followed by Marieke Guehrer, who stayed 0.13 seconds behind and emerged on the finishing end for fourth position with the timing of 57.97 seconds.

Fifth finest spot of the race was obtained by Irina Bespalova, who stayed 0.04 seconds slower from his preceding swimmer and tapped the wall with an effort of 58.01 seconds.

Afterwards, Skvortsov occupied gold medal of the 200m butterfly. He remained one and a half body length faster from his closest competitor and emerged on the finishing end for gold medal with an effort of 1 minute and 51.96 seconds.

His gold finish remained 1.32 seconds faster from Laszlo Cseh, who finished his race in second place by submitting a time of 1 minute and 53.28 seconds.

The second best finisher was traced by Andrey Tambovskiy, who remained prominently slower from his former finisher and reached the finishing end for bronze medal by touching the wall with the timing of 1 minute and 56.64 seconds.

The third position holder was trailed by Evgeny Koptelov, who remained 0.50 seconds apart and settled on the wall as fourth fastest swimmer by producing a time of 1 minute and 57.14 seconds.

In addition, the position holders received medals and accolades for their notable efforts at the prize ceremony of event.

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