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Soni, Coughlin, Hoff win at LA GP
Rebecca Soni defeated Jessica Hardy to win the 100m breaststroke in a showdown between the two fastest women ever in the event at the Los Angeles Grand Prix on Sunday.
Soni extended her lead over the final 50 to win in a meet-record time of one minute, 6.23 seconds. Hardy touched in 1:08.61.
Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan completed a sweep of the men's breaststroke events, winning the 100 in a meet record of 1:00.82 on the Southern California campus. He and Michael Alexandrov of Bulgaria were neck-and-neck for the first 50 before Kitajima pulled away. Alexandrov was second in 1:01.35.
Results from the Los Angeles Grand Prix swimming meeting at the University of Southern California on Sunday (USA unless noted):
Men
100m Butterfly:
1. Masayuki Kishida (JPN) 52.80,
2. Thomas
Shields 53.62,
3. Chen Yin (JPN) 54.10
100m Backstroke:
1. David Russell 54.27,
2. Matthew Grevers
54.27
800m Freestyle:
1. Michael Klueh 8:01.82,
2. Jeremy Bagshaw
8:10.46
100m Breaststroke:
1. Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 1:00.82,
2. Michael
Alexandrov 1:01.35,
3. Tales Cerdeira 1:01.81
200m Individual Medley:
1. Markus Rogan 2:00.82,
2. Tyler Clary
2:00.92,
3. Kosuke 2:01.66
Women
100m Butterfly:
1. Dana Vollmer 57.39,
2. Christine Magnuson
58.87,
3. Lyndsay De Paul 59.13
1500m Freestyle:
1. Loren Brandon 17:16.22,
2. Natalie Nichols
17:24.66
100m Breastroke:
1. Rebecca Soni 1:06.23,
2. Jessica Hardy
1:08.61,
3. Kasey Carlson 1:09.55
200m Freestyle:
1. Katie Hoff 1:57.58,
2. Arina Kukors 1:58.95,
3. Kate Ziegler 1:59.77
