Tuggle favorite to win Women's 200M free style after recording fastest time in preliminaries

Tuggle favorite to win Women's 200M free style after recording fastest time in preliminaries

By Naveel Krishant
Thursday 23/08/2018
Claire Tuggle of USA[Photo:SwimSwam.com]

Claire Tuggle, of USA will be the favourite to win the Women’s 200 metres free style final after she recorded the fastest time in the preliminaries earlier this morning.

She clocked a time of 1 minute 59.36 seconds. She also had the fastest time in terms of qualification to the championship.

She can expect tough competition from Isabel Ivey of USA, Lani Pallister of Australia and Nagita Ikemoto of Japan.

In the Men’s final Drew Kibler of USA will be the favourite to win the 200 metres free style event after clocking the fastest time of 1 minute 48.37 seconds in the preliminaries.

He will get stiff competition from Jake Magahey, Zac Reid and Keisu Ishizaki in the finals.

The final is expected to begin around 5pm today.

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