Atkinson takes gold in 100m breaststroke at swimming World Cup
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson cruised home with a 100 metre breast stroke gold in a winning time of 1:03.48 at the FINA World Cup swim meet in Singapore on Tuesday while Trinidad and Tobago swimmer George Bovell captured the silver medal in the 100-metre individual medley.
Atkinson has been much faster this year with a Jamaican-record of 1:02.91 from the Dubai stop of the tour, but didn’t need to expend that much energy against a sparse Singapore field.
Bovell clocked 51.75 seconds to finish behind Russian Vladimir Morozov who jumped out to an early lead to complete the course in 51.36 seconds.
Morozov (51.13) and Bovell (51.15), the top two sprint medley stars in the world this year, have both been much faster earlier on the circuit, but still had enough to both clear 52 seconds yet again.
World Cup legs this year have already taken place in Eindhoven, Berlin, Moscow, Dubai, Doha and now Singapore.
The series ends with the final legs in Tokyo, Japan (November 9-10) and Beijing, China (November 13-14).