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Fran Halsall Retains Back Crown In Victory Of Pure Sprinter Over Specialists: 27.57CR
- Updated: May 21, 2016
European Championships
London, Day 6 Finals
The pure sprinter pipped the specialists once more: Fran Halsall retained the crown in a Championship and English record of 27.57 over 100m champion Mie Nielsen (DEN), 27.77, the winner’s teammate and Commonwealth dash champion for Wales Georgia Davies on 27.87 to grant the hosts bronze and a second bite of the cherry.
Halsall, coached by James Gibson at Loughborough, was just 0.01sec shy of the British record held by Davies. The champion then dashed off to the semis of the 50m freestyle straight from the race, her sprint between sprints part of her journey to the defence of another Berlin 2014 crown on the curtain-closing day of the championships.
After medals, Halsall got a fabulous start, streamlined into stroke and stole an early lead on Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo in the 50m freestyle semis. The Dutch challenger tightened the gap in the closing three strokes but it was Halsall who took the ticket to lane 4 for the defence of the title in 24.21, Kromowidjojo on 24.37.
Halsall’s two efforts left her at third on the world rankings for 2016:
Women 50M Freestyle 1 23.84 Cate Campbell AUS , 24 Australian Championships AUS, Adelaide 2 24.17 Sarah Sjostrom SWE , 22 USA Pro Series Austin …
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