{"id":324265,"date":"2018-08-07T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=324265"},"modified":"2019-07-21T01:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:46:47","slug":"anastasia-fesikova-holds-off-georgia-davies-for-100-back-european-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/anastasia-fesikova-holds-off-georgia-davies-for-100-back-european-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia Fesikova Holds off Georgia Davies for 100 Back European Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a reversal of the finish in the 50 back final earlier in the week, Russia’s\u00a0Anastasia Fesikova\u00a0<\/strong>took the gold medal in the 100 back, holding off a brilliant late charge from Great Britain’s\u00a0Georgia Davies<\/strong>. Fesikova touched in 59.19, moving to eighth in the world this year, followed by Davies in a 10th-ranked time of 59.36.<\/p>\n

The continental title in the 100 back was the second in Fesikova’s career, 10 years after she first won the event in 2008 (when she was then known as Anastasia Zueva).<\/p>\n

Italy’s\u00a0Carlotta Zofkova<\/strong> took the bronze in 59.61, barely holding off Hungary’s\u00a0Katinka Hosszu\u00a0<\/strong>(59.64). Hosszu, who won one of her three Olympic gold medals in the event in 2016, has yet to win a medal this week in Glasgow, with only the 200 IM and 200 back to go.<\/p>\n

Italy’s\u00a0Margherita Panziera\u00a0<\/strong>(59.71), Denmark’s\u00a0Mie Nielsen\u00a0<\/strong>(59.93), Hungary’s\u00a0Katalin Burian\u00a0<\/strong>(1:00.05) and the Netherland’s\u00a0Kira Toussaint\u00a0<\/strong>(1:00.14) rounded out the top eight.<\/p>\n

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