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Britney van Lange fails to reverse Guyana Olympics fortunes
– Track and Field countdown starts with Guyanese athlete
Guyana’s swimmer Britney van Lange experienced the same fate yesterday morning as her team mate, Nial Roberts who swam the previous day (Tuesday) in the Aquatics Centre at the 2012 London Olympics in the Women’s 100 meters freestyle.
The 15-year-old Bishop’s High School swimmer, who tested the waves at the highest level of her career, swam to fourth place out of lane six in heat two to register a time of 1:01.62 seconds.
Britney van Lange
The athlete clocked 29.41 seconds in the first 50 meters of the freestyle before finishing to exceed the 50 seconds barrier to maintain fourth position, ahead of three other swimmers.
The heat was won by Jade Howard of Zambia in 59. 35 seconds, Bayan Jumah 59.78 seconds was runner-up as Karen Riveros 59.86 seconds was third. Even the winner of this heat did not qualify for the semi-finals, which facilitates the fastest 16 qualifying times.
Van Lange, 15, the baby of the Guyana team, mentioned before her event that she was nervous and was unable to achieve a new personal best time in her event. Her personal best time in the 100 meters freestyle is 1.01.39 seconds.
Van Lange performance in this event is ranked 42 out of 48.
Yi Tang is ranked as number one with 53.28 seconds.
All focus will now turn to Track and Field as Winston George and Aliann Pompey along with Jeremy Bascom will be blasting out of the blocks in the 400 meters (George and Pompey) and 100 meters respectively to make their presence known as they attempt to bring glory to Guyana.
George and Pompey running the longest sprint event in Track and Field entered the Games with times of 45.86 and 51.66 seconds.
The 28 years old Bascom who tied a 34 years old national record will be looking to improve his 10.19 seconds in his 100 meters in his preliminary round to qualify for the semi-finals.
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