Swimming: 200m free victory for Manaudou
mounting a comeback after a two-year absence from swimming, won the 200m freestyle at a meeting.
ATHENS:
Former Olympic and triple world champion Laure Manaudou, mounting a comeback after a two-year absence from swimming, won the 200m freestyle at a meeting. The 24-year-old Frenchwoman clocked 1 minute 59.30 seconds to edge American Megan Romano 1 minute 59.34 seconds. Manaudou’s winning time was well outside the 1 minute 55.52 seconds world record she set in Melbourne in 2007, which has since been broken by Italian Federica Pellegrini.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2011.
Former Olympic and triple world champion Laure Manaudou, mounting a comeback after a two-year absence from swimming, won the 200m freestyle at a meeting. The 24-year-old Frenchwoman clocked 1 minute 59.30 seconds to edge American Megan Romano 1 minute 59.34 seconds. Manaudou’s winning time was well outside the 1 minute 55.52 seconds world record she set in Melbourne in 2007, which has since been broken by Italian Federica Pellegrini.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 17th, 2011.