Africa-Press – South-Africa. Rebecca Meder concluded her World Aquatics Swimming World Cup campaign with another bronze medal at the third and final leg of the series in Toronto, Canada, over the weekend.
The result brought the 23-year-old KwaZulu-Natal swimmer’s total tally to four bronze medals from the three stops of the series.
On Saturday, Meder produced a strong final 25 metres to claim third place in the 100m breaststroke in Toronto with a time of 1 minute 04.48 seconds, just one hundredth of a second ahead of fourth-placed Satomi Suzuki of Japan. The race was won by overall series champion Kate Douglass of the USA in 1:02.93, with Ireland’s Mona McSharry taking second in 1:03.84.
Speaking afterwards, Meder said she was “very happy” with her performances over the last few weeks. “I’m really happy to see that I’m becoming more and more competitive against the world’s best, and nice to see that I’m racing in events that are stacked with the swimmers that I normally race against,” she said, referencing competitors such as Olympic champion Douglass and world champion sisters Alex and Gretchen Walsh.
Meder’s other results in Toronto included a fourth place in the 200m breaststroke in 2:18.81, a fifth place in the 200m individual medley in 2:05.83, and a sixth place in the 100m individual medley in 58.81 seconds. This saw her finishing 16th overall in the series standings.
While the World Cup series is raced in 25-metre pools (short course), Meder will now switch her focus to next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, raced over 50 metres, where she will be aiming for more podium finishes.
“Up next, the biggest focus is Commonwealth Games next year, of which lots of my competitors, competitors that I was racing now, will be at. So I’m looking forward to racing them again,” she concluded.
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