PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 29. THE annual Arena Cup – Prague gets underway tomorrow and will feature some of the top swimmers in the Czech Republic, as well as a few international standouts.<\/p>\n
Backstroke specialist Simona Baumrtova will highlight the home country’s participants. Baumrtova competed in the 100 and 200 back at the 2012 London Olympics, and has a number of medals from the European Championships in both short course and long course. She is currently ranked 15th in the world in the 100 back (1:00.37) and 33rd in the 200 back at 2:12.06. Those performances, which came at the Grand Prix of Pardubice this month and Grand Prix of Budejovice in March, are not far off her personal bests of 59.99 and 2:10.03 from London.<\/p>\n
South African Giulio Zorzi is among a handful of international swimmers who will make the trek to Prague after competing in the Grand Prix of Slovakia last weekend. Zorzi’s top times in 2014 include a 28.18 in the 50 breast and1:02.31 in the 100 breast, both from the South African National Championships in early April. He’ll need to post a time in the mid-27 range to break into the top 20 world rankings in the 50 breast, and around 1:01.5 to make the top 50 performances of 2014 for the 100 breast.<\/p>\n
The meet will also serve as an opportunity for Czech swimmers to post consideration times for the Czech Republic’s European Junior Championship team and Youth Olympic Games team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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