Roneil Walcott
Trinidad and Tobago swimmer Zuri Ferguson smashed extra details as she brought down the curtain in this country’s participation at the World Aquatics Short Direction Championships in Hungary on December 15.
Competing in warmth two of the ladies’s 200-metre backstroke event, Ferguson clocked a successful time of two minutes, 10.62 seconds (2:10.62). Ferguson beat Cuba’s Laurent Caraballo (2:12.78) into 2nd, with Barbados’ Danielle Titus third in 2:12.86. At some level of, Ferguson save a brand novel national birth anecdote for the ladies’s 200m backstroke and the 15-17 class – eclipsing the outdated marks held by Ornella Walker and Jahmia Harley.
The teenager’s time placed her Twenty eighth out of 42 competitors in the 200m backstroke and didn’t make her a location in the final.
The ladies’s 200m backstroke used to be gained by the US’s Regan Smith, who clocked a immediate 1:58.04 to fracture the arena anecdote. Ferguson had a rewarding time in Hungary, as she furthermore save novel national details in the 50m backstroke (27.83) and 100m (1:00.12) backstroke events.
In the males’s 200m freestyle, Nikoli Blackman save a brand novel personal finest when he clocked 1:44.05 to take warmth two earlier than Egypt’s Abdalla Youssef Nasr (1:forty five.04). Blackman’s time placed him twenty third overall out of 68 competitors.
An identical to Ferguson, Blackman’s feat didn’t take him through to the final.
The males’s 200m freestyle final used to be gained by USA’s Luke Hobson in a world anecdote of 1:38.61.
