(ATR) The best female swimmers in the world cover 50 meters, swimming the backstroke, in about 27 seconds.
Fatema Abdulmohsen Ahmed Almahme, a 16-year-old from Bahrain, did it in 40.4 in the first-round heats here Wednesday morning. She was last in a field of 52. Afterward, she was thrilled.
"It’s the biggest achievement," she said, "because I have only been swimming for one year. I never thought about making it here."
If it’s indisputable that the track and field world championships mark the coming together of the entire world, with athletes from 214 nations, let it be said that Kazan 2015 boasts swimmers from 189. That’s up from 177 at the last edition of the swim world championships, in Barcelona in 2013.
Senegal? Mongolia? Tajikistan? Here.
Kosovo? Ethiopia? Laos? Here.
Papua New Guinea? Nicaragua? Namibia? Yep.
Read the full story at 3 Wire Sports.
Written by Alan Abrahamsonin Kazan
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