{"id":324860,"date":"2018-08-09T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=324860"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:33:59","slug":"simona-quadarella-completes-distance-sweep-with-400-free-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/simona-quadarella-completes-distance-sweep-with-400-free-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Quadarella Completes Distance Sweep with 400 Free Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the final individual event of the European Championships, Italy’s\u00a0Simona Quadarella<\/strong> picked up her third gold medal of the week, winning a battle with Hungary’s\u00a0Ajna Kesely\u00a0<\/strong>in the women’s 400 free. Already with titles in the 800 and 1500 free, Quadarella won the 400 in 4:03.35, giving her the fifth-fastest time in the world this year.<\/p>\n

Kesely finished second in 4:03.57, taking more than two seconds off her own European record of 4:05.61. Bronze went to Great Britain’s\u00a0Holly Hibbott\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:05.01, and those two moved behind Quadarella into sixth and seventh in the world rankings, respectively.<\/p>\n

Russia’s\u00a0Anna Egorova\u00a0<\/strong>finished one second out of the medals in fourth, with a time of 4:06.03. Also in the final were Germany’s\u00a0Sarah Koehler\u00a0<\/strong>(4:07.68), Liechtenstein’s\u00a0Julia Hassler\u00a0<\/strong>(4:11.42), Portugal’s\u00a0Diana Margarida Duraes\u00a0<\/strong>(4:12.41) and Great Britain’s\u00a0Eleanor Faulkner\u00a0<\/strong>(4:15.26).<\/p>\n

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