MONTE CARLO, Monaco, June 2. ROMANIANS took three events to dominate competition on the first day of the first stop on the Mare Nostrum tour, but Australia's Leisel Jones turned in the day's best swim.<\/p>\n
Camelia Potec got things going for Romania with a narrow win over comebacking Claudia Poll of Costa Rica in the 200m free. Potec touched in 1:58.97, two-hundredths ahead of Poll, 32, the 1996 Olympic champion.<\/p>\n
Dragos Coman followed with an easy win in the men's 400m free, as he glided to victory in 3:53.88.<\/p>\n
Florea Razvan followed with a solid 55.80 performance in the 100m back, half a second ahead of 32 year-old Emanuele Merisi of Italy in second.<\/p>\n
Australia's Lethal Leisel Jones clocked a blistering 1:07.38 to destroy the field in the women's 100m breaststroke. Austria's Mirna Jukic was a distant second at 1:09.98.<\/p>\n
Brenton Rickard gave Australia a sweep of the breaststroke events as he won the men's 200 meters handily in 2:13.97.<\/p>\n
Russia's Stanislava Komarova won another blowout — the women's 200 meter backstroke. The 17 year-old clocked 2:11.35 to win by four seconds.<\/p>\n
World and Olympic champion Yana Klochkova, Ukraine, had a harder time but still emerged triumphant in the 400 IM, clocking 4:43.11.<\/p>\n
In the men's 100m free, Denis Pimankov beat Russian teammate, 49.61 to 49.96.<\/p>\n
Ioan Gherghel, former University of Alabama star, took a come-from-behind win in the 200 fly in 1:58.06, while Italy's Nicola Febbraro won the 200 IM in 2:03.64.<\/p>\n
The meet winds up tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Mare Nostrum 1
\nMonte Carlo, Monaco<\/p>\n
50 meter pool<\/p>\n
June 2 – 3, 2004<\/p>\n
DAY ONE: June 2, 2004
\nRESULTS<\/b> <\/p>\n
WOMEN
\n200 METRES FREESTYLE
\n1\t1:58.97\tPotec Camelia,82,ROM
\n2\t1:58.99\tPoll Claudia,72,CRC
\n3\t2:00.98\tGraham Elka,81,AUS<\/p>\n
200 METRES BACKSTROKE
\n1\t2:11.35\tKomarova Stanislava,86,RUS
\n2\t2:15.83\tTakemura Miyuki,89,JPN
\n3\t2:18.42\tGuehrer Marieke,85,AUS<\/p>\n
100 METRES BREASTSTROKE
\n1\t1:07.38\tJones Leisel,85,AUS
\n2\t1:09.98\tJukic Mirna,86,AUT
\n3\t1:10.29\tBogomazova Elena,82,RUS<\/p>\n
100 METRES BUTTERFLY
\n1\t59.45\tPopchanka Alena,79,BLR
\n2\t59.59\tLenton Lisbeth,85,AUS
\n3\t59.60\tSjoberg Johanna,78,SWE<\/p>\n
400 METRES IND.MEDLEY
\n1\t4:43.11\tKlochkova Yana,82,UKR
\n2\t4:44.82\tKlinar Anja,88,SLO
\n3\t4:46.09\tMalar Joanne,75,CAN<\/p>\n
MEN
\n100 METRES FREESTYLE
\n1\t49.61\tPimankov Denis,75,RUS
\n2\t49.96\tKapralov Andrei,80,RUS
\n3\t50.65\tSyzonenko Denis,84,UKR<\/p>\n
400 METRES FREESTYLE
\n1\t3:53.88\tComan Dragos,80,ROM
\n2\t3:55.15\tSay Rick,79,CAN
\n3\t3:56.21\tUchida Shohei,87,JPN<\/p>\n
100 METRES BACKSTROKE
\n1\t55.80\tFlorea Razvan,80,ROM
\n2\t56.34\tMerisi Emanuele,72,ITA
\n3\t56.91\tKoga Junya,87,JPN<\/p>\n
200 METRES BREASTSTROKE
\n1\t2:13.97\tRickard Brenton,83,AUS
\n2\t2:16.47\tMalek Daniel,73,CZE
\n3\t2:18.23\tRummolo Davide,77,ITA<\/p>\n
200 METRES BUTTERFLY
\n1\t1:58.06\tGherghel Ioan,78,ROM
\n2\t1:58.42\tSkvortsov Nikolai,84,RUS
\n3\t2:00.86\tVespe Francesco,83,ITA<\/p>\n
200 METRES IND.MEDLEY
\n1\t2:03.64\tFebbraro Nicola,81,ITA
\n2\t2:04.76\tTownsend Darian,84,RSA
\n3\t2:05.03\tLiu Weijia,89,CHN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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