Golden Bear Long Course Meet

Two of England’s 50m specialists continued their build up to Manchester 2002 by competing in the Golden Bear long course meet in Zagreb. Zoe Baker won the 50m Breastroke and Mark Foster took 2nd in the 50 fly and 3rd in the 50 free.

Text from britishswimming.org:

GOLDEN BEAR HIGHLIGHTS
At the “Golden Bear” long course competition in Zagreb Zoe Baker won the 50m breaststroke 31.27 pushing Hungary’s Agnes Kovacs out of the top slot for the second time in a week. Baker was delighted with the win. Mark Foster was second in the 50m butterfly in 23.96 behind Germany’s Thomas Rupprath 23.91 and beating Lars Frolander of Sweden. In the 50m freestyle Foster was third in 22.43. Alexander Popov won in 22.31. Foster commented “Things are looking good for Manchester.”

Selected results from Xinhuanet

Men
50m backstroke:
1. Alex Lim, United States, 25.98 seconds
2. Ante Maskovic, Croatia, 26.20
3. Steffen Driesen, Germany, 26.30
100m butterfly:
1. Thomas Rupprath, Germany, 52.87
2. Lars Frolander, Switzerland, 53.32
3. Peter Mankoc, Slovakia, 54.85
200m backstroke:
1. Vladimir Nikolajcuk, Ukrain, two minutes 0.40 seconds
2. Gordan Kozulj, Croatia, 2:00.64
3. Marko Strahija, Croatia, 2:02.20
50m freestyle:
1. Alexander Popov, Russia, 22.31
2. Bart Kizierowsky, United States, 22.37
3. Mark Foster, Britain, 22.43

Women
50m freestyle:
1. Therese Alshammar, Britain, 24.89
2. Mette Jacobsen, Denmark, 26.72
3. Anna Nyiry, Hungary, 26.90