Mare Nostrum Swim Tour: Siobhan Haughey beaten to gold, but 2 medals for Hong Kong
Siobhan Haughey has finally been beaten at the Mare Nostrum Swim Tour in Barcelona, but Hong Kong won two medals in a day for the second time at this edition as she and Ian Ho Yentou bagged silvers.
Haughey came second in the women's 100 metres freestyle final on Wednesday behind 20-year-old Dutch swimmer Milou van Wijk. The Hongkonger clocked 53.88 seconds, which was 0.32 seconds slower than Van Wijk's 53.56 and reversed their positions last Sunday in the first leg in Monaco.
Third was Haughey's training partner, Czech swimmer Barbora Seemanova, who finished in 54.25.
It represented a rare pause in Haughey's dominance at the tour, albeit at a time when she is at an early stage in her comeback from a four-month break. She was the overall women's winner of the past two Mare Nostrums, sweeping both the 100m and 200m freestyle in both years.
In the men's 50m freestyle, Ho, Haughey's fellow Olympian, punched the wall in 22.15 seconds to pick up his first medal of the three-leg event.
He was second to Egypt's Abdelrahman Elaraby's time of 21.94. Two swimmers tied for third, as Spain's Sergio de Celis and Piotr Ludwiczak from Poland both finished in 22.48.
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