Jamaica’s world record holder Alia Atkinson placed out of the medals yesterday on the opening round of the 7th and final stop of the FINA world cup series at the OCBC Aquatic centre, in Singapore.
She had to settle for 4th place in the women’s 200 metres breastroke where she was timed at 2-minutes-25.75 seconds.
Yuliya Effimova of Russia took the event in 2-minutes-16.05 seconds.
Atkinson will be in action in two events today……….. she will contest the women’s 100 metres breastroke event as well as the women’s 50 metres butterfly.