Great Britain’s Adlington snatches 400m freestyle gold from Hoff

August 11, 2008

Katie Hoff has faded badly in the 400 women’s freestyle final to be pipped at the post by Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington. The final margin was 0.07.

At the final turn Hoff was more than a second ahead of Joanne Jackson also of Great Britain. Jackson came in third. Both swimmers were swamped by the fast finnish by Adlington who covered the last 50m in 29.18. This compared to Hoff’s time of 30.71.

Adlington was in last place at the 150m mark and second last at the 250m mark. It was from here that she made her move and picked off the other swimmers one by one before her surprise win.

The world and Olympic record holder, Federica Pellegrini of Italy could only manage fifth place. Her qualifying time of 4:02.19 that she swam yesterday when setting the Olympic record was faster than the gold medal swim time of 4:03.22.

This race just shows you that you need to finnish strong and go into the wall hard.

Written by rob · Filed Under swimming beijing olympics 

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