Huegill flys through the water
03 August 2002
Games record holder Geoff Huegill of Australia took the gold in the men’s 100m butterfly.
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Games record holder Geoff Huegill
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Huegill one of the Australian super swimmers who set the Games record to qualify fastest, swam a time of 52.36 in front of a packed Manchester Aquatics Centre. A jubilant Huegill reflecting on his performance said: “I hit the wall on 18 [strokes], you know that if your stroke’s out, you can’t do anything about it. So I just had to charge pretty hard to bring it home. I was more relaxed and more together last night. I don’t know whether it’s nerves or what.” The silver was taken by Mike Mintenko of Canada with a time of 52.80, closely followed by Adam Pine of Australia who took the bronze with a time of 53.02. Mintenko said: “There were other good swimmers in there too, so silver was a good result for me.” On taking the bronze Pine said: “It’s good to have gained three medals in three Commonwealth Games. I was happy to be on the dias with bronze. It was over so quickly, I never had a chance to catch the other two.” Result
1: Geoff Huegill of Australia - 52.36 2: Mike Mintenko of Canada - 52.80 3: Adam Pine of Australia - 53.02
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