SWIMMING: ZIEGLER SHINES AGAIN.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. -- Kate Ziegler Kate Ziegler (born June 27, 1988 in Fairfax, Virginia) is a world record distance swimmer from the United States, who won two golden medals at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal and the same two events at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne. continued her assault on the record book Saturday at the TYR/Swim Meet of Champions, but USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. junior Rebecca Soni and German national team standout Britta Steffen Britta Steffen (b. November 16, 1983 in Schwedt, Germany) is a German swimmer who specialises in freestyle swimming|freestyle, who is holder of the world record in women's 100 metre freestyle. weren't going to let the 18-year-old phenom have the spotlight all to herself. Ziegler, representing The FISH Swim Club in Fairfax, Va., recorded a lifetime-best 1 minute, 58.80 seconds in the 200-meter freestyle to break meet and pool records for the third consecutive night at Marguerite Recreation Center. But after Ziegler took down Janet Evans' 19-year-old meet record in the 400 freestyle Friday Freestyle Friday is a segment on BET's popular show 106 & Park. Two rappers compete in a freestyle battle before the studio audience and the cypher (from 2006) and three celebrity judges (the DJ sometimes acts as the 3rd judge). , Soni and Steffen on Saturday took turns breaking the records set by two more American legends. Steffen, the world record-holder in the 100 freestyle, eclipsed Jenny Thompson's 1997 mark in the 50 free by one-hundredth of a second, clocking 25.89 to lead a German sweep of the top three spots. Soni was victorious in the women's 200 breaststroke in 2:27.10, holding off a strong charge in the final 25 meters from Trojan Swim Club teammate Keri Hehn (2:27.88) to break the 2004 meet record of 2:27.57 belonging to training partner and American record-holder Amanda Beard Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California) is an American Olympic swimmer and model. Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 games at the age of 14. . "After prelims, (USC coach Dave Salo) said he wanted me to break the record," said Soni, the two-time NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association short-course champion in the 200-yard breaststroke. "It's a really good in-season time for me, and hopefully I can keep getting faster throughout the season and go a best time at nationals (in August)." Hehn defeated Soni 2:27.66 to 2:28.05 on May 27 at the Speedo An earlier scalable font technology from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com). Speedo fonts used the .SPD extension. See FaceLift. Grand Challenge in Irvine, but after holding a narrow lead at the midway point of the rematch, Soni increased her lead to more than a second entering the final turn. Soni, who clocked a personal-best 2:24.70 -- third-fastest in the world this year -- at the Duel in the Pool in Australia in April, will get another showdown with Hehn, as well as American record-holder Jessica Hardy, in today's 100breaststroke, as the Trojan Swim Club is favored to sweep the top three spots. Hardy continued to enjoy a strong meet Saturday with a fourth-place effort in the 50 free (26.41). Former Saugus standout John Criste, a recent graduate of Mission Viejo High, will also try to become a double winner in the breaststroke today following an impressive performance in the 200, capturing the title in 2:18.38. Criste also finished 12th in the 400 individual medley (4:40.15). erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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