Men’s 50 breaststroke – FINALS – 2013 FINA World Championships reported by swimswam / Braden Keith:
The South African day four medal haul jumped to three when teammates and training partners Cameron van der Burgh and Giulio Zorzi took gold and bronze in the men’s 50 breaststroke, with times of 26.77 and 27.04, respectively.
That gold from van der Burgh could have just as easily been a silver, though, with Christian Sprenger breaking an Australian National Record by going 26.78 – missing his second title by just .01 seconds.
That small margin shows the importance of every tiny detail in these 50′s, and reared its head again as Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic was 4th in 27.05 – missing bronze by just .01 seconds himself.
Brazil’s Joao Gomes Junior was 5th in 27.20, just ,01 seconds ahead of New Zealand’s Glenn Snyders, and then things were relatively spread out as Swedish teenager Johannes Skagius took 7th (27.48) and Italy’s Mattia Pesce was 8th (27.53).