LONDON: Dana Vollmer ended a life of frustration and battles with his health to win the 100 meters butterfly gold in world record time in the Olympic Games in London on Sunday.The American, swimming like a madwoman, powered his way through two laps at the Aquatic Center to win in 55.98 seconds, chopping 0.08 of the previous mark set by Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Lu Ying of China finished second, while Alicia Coutts of Australia, gold medalist in the 4x100 relay freestyle on Saturday, was third and the fourth, but Sjostrom all the applause went to Vollmer.
While Vollmer won a gold medal in the relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics, 24 years old, had never competed in an individual event at the Games before London.In 2000, she was a bright-eyed 12-year-old in the U.S. trials and did not qualify for the Games at all. In the year 2004 was a surprise qualifier, but only in the relay, and was designated as a future champion.
In 2008, however, the combination of a mysterious disease and the weight of expectation took hold of her and she could not make the U.S. team.
In 2003, he underwent heart surgery to correct a condition that produces a faster than normal pulse and forced her to have a defibrillator to all races and training sessions.However, an allergy to eggs that was held for many years. When finally diagnosed, after missing the Olympic team in Beijing, which was put in a new gluten-free diet.
Their results in the group quickly began to improve and in 2011 won his first world title individually in Shanghai.She was about to break the record previously only run out of puff in the final meters, but swam a career even more this time, reaching the half in third place then emerging out on the last lap.
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