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The medal is delayed but the confidence comes for
Hugo González
de Oliveira
,
sixth
in a final of
100 backstrokes
of enormous level. On lane one, the Spaniard
improved his personal best
(52.78) and even surpassed the position with which he qualified by time for the final. Since he was thrown into the pool of the Aquatic Center in Tokyo, he has gone
from less to more
, an exceptional impression for the test in which he has the most aspirations to the podium, the 200 styles, in which he has been European champion, whose series he will swim the following day with his sights set on Thursday's final.
The victory was, surprisingly, for
Euvgeny Rylov
, a Russian who competes under the IOC flag. He started on 2nd street, along with Hugo González, but his reference was impossible to hold for the Mallorcan swimmer, who had a good step through 50, at 25.6, although insufficient to reach the podium. Rylov defeated the clear favorite, world record holder
Ryan Murphy
, and compatriot
Kliment Kolesnikov
, second. The winner's mark, below 52 seconds (51.98), shows the level of a race in which the world record is 51.85. More than half of its participants improved their personal records. The first two steps of the podium were taken by unflagged Russians in an Olympic final that the United States had not lost since 1996.
It was, therefore, too much for Hugo González, in his
second Games at the age of 22
.
Instead, the 200 styles is a much more open test, where no one has clearly taken a mastery of the test like the one that
Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte had
.
The 400 styles already proved it.
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Tokyo GamesHugo González, seventh time in the semifinals, to the final of the 100 backstroke
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Tokyo GamesMireia Belmonte, fourth, 23 hundredths from the podium of the 400 styles
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