Wednesday 4 November 2009

2009 Season's Best - Women - Swimming

Let's see how the girls who swam faster this season, last year of the full swimsuit. I'd like to know what will be of Medany, who swims with the "burkini" due to her religion belief (she's Muslim), hopefully they will find a solution for this question.

Competitions (finals only):
World Cup 1 - Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico - March 2009 - WC1
World Cup 2 - Cairo, Egypt - April 2009 - WC2
World Cup 3 - Székesfehérvár, Hungary - May 2009 - WC3 (note: different venue from the men's competition, which happened a week before in Budapest)
World Cup 4 - Roma, Italy - May 2009 - WC4
World Cup Final - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - WCF
Senior World Championships - London, Great Britain - August 2009 - SWC

Best times:
WC1 - Cazé (FRA) 1192 (2:14.19), Struchtkova (RUS) 1172 (2:15.97), Kovács (HUN) 1168 (2:16.20)
WC2 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1256 (2:08.92), Struchtkova (RUS) 1208 (2:12.73), Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.80)
WC3 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1248 (2:09.42), Kovács (HUN) 1212 (2:12.60), Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.75)
WC4 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1244 (2:09.71), Struchtkova (RUS) 1192 (2:14.21), Fell (GBR) 1168 (2:16.30)
WCF - Cazé (FRA) 1192 (2:14.00), Gyenesei (HUN) 1188 (2:14.39), Marques (BRA) 1176 (2:15.62)
SWC - Struchtkova (RUS) 1244 (2:09.76), Gyenesei (HUN) 1236 (2:10.64), Kovács (HUN) 1216 (2:12.02)

Others pentathletes that swam under 2:18 (or pretty close, in two cases under 2:18.10):
WC1 - Medany (EGY) 1156 (2:17.03)
WC2 - Granfield (GBR) 1196 (2:13.89), Medany (EGY) 2:16.00, Helyer (GBR) 1152 (2:17.75), Czwojdzińska (POL) 1148 (2:17.66), Trautmann (GER) 1148 (2:17.75)
WC3 - Vörös (HUN) 1160 (2:16.77), Livingston (GBR) 1160 (2:16.80), Isaksen (USA) 1156 (2:17.13), Dianová (CZE) 1156 (2:17.17), Czwojdzińska (POL) 1144 (2:18.01)
WC4 - Medany (EGY) 1164 (2:16.38), Livingston (GBR) 1164 (2:16.58), Walesa (POL) 1160 (2:16.79), Isaksen (USA) 1156 (2:17.17), Dianová (CZE) 1148 (2:17.77)
WCF - Medany (EGY) 1168 (2:16.27), Fell (GBR) 1164 (2:16.39), Dianová (CZE) 1152 (2:17.40)
SWC: Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.67), Livingston (GBR) 1188 (2:14.64), Dianová (CZE) 1184 (2:14.80), Trautmann (GER) 1180 (2:15.27), Fell (GBR) 1172 (2:15.93), Vörös (HUN) 1156 (2:17.23), Marques (BRA) 1152 (2:17.40), Czwojdzińska (POL) 1148 (2:17.91), Medany (EGY) 1144 (2:18.05)

Top 11 - Women - Swimming - 2009
1 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1256 (2:08.92) WC2 Cairo
2 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1248 (2:09.42) WC3 Székesfehérvár
3 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1244 (2:09.71) WC4 Roma and Struchtkova (RUS) 1244 (2:09.76) SWC London
5 - Gyenesei (HUN) 1236 (2:10.64) SWC London
6 - Kovács (HUN) 1216 (2:12.02) SWC London
7 - Kovács (HUN) 1212 (2:12.60) WC3 Székesfehérvár
8 - Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.67) SWC London, Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.75) WC3 Székesfehérvár, Cazé (FRA) 1208 (2:12.80) WC2 Cairo, Struchtkova (RUS) 1208 (2:12.73) WC2 Cairo

Gyenesei was the fastest swimmer this season, with 4 scores in top5. Kovács also honour the Hungarian tradition in swimming and with Cazé and Struchkova make the top4 swimmers that dominated 4 of 6 in best three times (in the other 2 competitions, only the third place was a different athlete). Then we have Medany and behind her Fell, Marques, Livingston, Dianová, Trautmann, Czwojdzińska, Vörös and Isaksen being consistent and gaining important points in swimming.

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