The official website of Good Luck Beijing Sports Events 2007 Modern Pentathlon World Cup Finals ended the third event, the 200-meter swimming competition, at Yingdong Swimming Hall of the Olympic Sports Center on September 16th. Sheila Taormina, an American swimming champion in Atlanta Olympic Games, was really extraordinary, with a score of 2 minutes, 7 seconds and 54 seconds far ahead. Amelie Caze, a French swimmer, won the second place in swimming, and the three total scores rose to the first place; China’s Xiu Xiu created the third best single result.
Sheila Taumina of the United States won the women’s 4X200 freestyle relay at the 1996 Olympic Games, and set and maintained the modern pentathlon women’s swimming world record after changing events. Although she is 38 years old, she is not old. She scored 1392 points in 2 minutes, 7 seconds and 54 seconds, and she deserves to be the first swimmer. However, her ranking in the first two events is really bad: shooting is the bottom and fencing is the second from the bottom. Therefore, although swimming draws points forward, she can only rank 32nd at present.
Amelie Caze, a 22-year-old Frenchman, is a young champion in the 2007 World Championships. Today, her swimming score was 2 minutes, 14 seconds, 07 and 1312 minutes, ranking second in swimming, but she ranked fourth in the first two events. With the excellent performance of swimming, the total score after the three events has risen to the first place.
China swimmer Xiuxiu’s swimming performance improved obviously compared with last year’s best of 2 minutes, 18 seconds and 11 minutes, ranking third in the swimming competition with 2 minutes, 15 seconds, 58 minutes and 1,296 minutes, which greatly increased her three total scores to 3,176 points, and her ranking also jumped to the eighth place. At the age of 20, she recently won the fifth place in the individual competition of the World Championships in Berlin, creating the best result for a female player in China. Another swimmer from China, Liu Zhou, improved her swimming performance by 7 seconds compared with last year, and ranked 17th in the swimming competition with 2 minutes, 22 seconds and 28 seconds. At present, her total score of three events is 3,120 points, and her overall ranking has risen to 15th.
By the end of the swimming competition, spence, a British athlete and world champion in relay, ranked second in the three total scores with 3292 points, while Elena Vicente Madrid, a Latvian athlete and Athens Olympic champion, ranked third with 3284 points.
Remarkably, Aya Madani, as one of the only Egyptian athletes in Africa, won the fourth place in the swimming competition in 2 minutes and 16.95 seconds, and her total score of 3,260 points also reached the fourth place.
There will also be equestrian obstacle races and running competitions in the Olympic Sports Center Stadium this afternoon.
Editor: Xu Guimei
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