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Mosses record appears safe
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
Anthony Mosse’s record medal haul appears safe for at least another World University Games after New Zealand’s success in the pool dried up overnight.
Helen Norfolk (Massey Albany) had a chance to equal Mosse’s mark of four medals (Brone in 1983, Silver in 1985 and a gold and Silver in 1987) when she lined up in the women’s 400m individual medley final but could manage only fifth.
The Aucklander clocked 4min 47.79s in the final to shave more than four seconds off her qualifying time and over three seconds off her time at last month’s world championships in Montreal where she finished a disappointing 16th. But her time left her an agonising 1.17s outside of the medals.
Norfolk has one last chance to equal Mosse’s mark in the 200m backstroke on Thursday but sees the race more as competitive training for her specialist medley races.
The Massey Albany psychology student estimated she had swum an extra five metres in the backstroke leg on her way to silver in the 200m individual medley on Monday (NZT).
“I reckon I covered 55m because I was swimming from one side of the lane to the other. When you swim indoors you have the roof to line yourself up on but its difficult outdoors because you have nothing, only the sky.”
Norfolk and Moss Burmester (both Albany) were the best placed of the five Kiwi finalists on the fourth day of finals at Manisa Pool.
Burmester also finished fifth in the men’s 100m butterfly, his 53.66s effort just 0.29s slower than the winner.
Elizabeth Coster (Auckland) was seventh in the 100m backstroke in 1min 03.86 while Alison Fitch (Massey Albany) was 8th in the 200m freestyle in 2min 03.12s, nearly three seconds slower than her split in New Zealand’s silver medal swim in the 4×200m relay on Monday.
The men’s 4×200m freestyle relay team of Burmester (Albany) , Cameron Gibson (Auckland), Andrew McMillan (Otago) and Robert Voss (Albany) were seventh in 7min 30.28s. Meanwhile, University of Auckland boardsailor Matthew McCormick was the best placed of the three Kiwi sailors after the opening day of yachting, 10th and 5th placings in the men’s mistral leaving him seventh overall.
Anna Eason (University of Auckland) was 10th in the 12-strong women’s mistral fleet after being disqualified in her first race when she was confused by different colour buoys and crossed outside the finishing line.
Laser Radial sailor Sara Winther (University of Auckland) was eighth overall after seventh and eighth placings, The Kiwi women’s volleyballers won their first set at the Universiade but lost their fourth successive match 3-1 to Estonia.
The first day of track and field at Ataturk Stadium was still in progress at press time.
SOURCE: Kent Gray in Turkey (Fairfax / The Dominion Post)
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