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Alia Atkinson poised for gold medals at FINA/Airweave Swimming Championship

by October 3rd, 2017

Jamaica’s swimming world record holder Alia Atkinson seems well on her way to complete the swimming World Cup tour unbeaten in the women’s 50’s meters breastroke.

This when she competes in Doha Qatar tomorrow at the FINA/Airweave Swimming Championship in the fifth stop in the world cup series.

The two time Olympic finalist swam to victory in Hong Kong on the weekend, as he crushed the field by over a second to win the event in a time of 29.26 seconds. Second place went to Denmark’s Rikke Pedersen in 30.50 seconds and the bronze was won by Hong Kong’s IP Rainbow in 32.50 seconds.

The gold medal winning performance marked her 4th consecutive win for the season and 16th straight on the tour.

The last time Alia lost this race was October 29, 2015. On the 2016 tour Alia competed in 8 of the 9 stops and won all her races.

 

 

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