Samuel De Bona In Pursuit Of A Medal

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Samuel Menegon De Bona enjoyed his highest place ever at a FINA World Championship competition.

The young man from Brazil with a perennial wide, warm smile was ecstatic about his 6th place finish and he understood of the mistakes he made in the 5 km race this weekend.

“The race was pretty hard. There were many contours in the course and much physical contact between everyone. In the end, I got used to the pace and I was able to stick with the lead group of athletes. I was hanging with Thomas [Lurz] and almost got a medal, but I choose the wrong side towards the end of the race.

I had a different plan and preparation. I had a strong strategy and it worked. I’ll swim the [Team Pursuit] relay in the quest for a medal. Poliana [Okimoto] is a great athlete and she will be able to keep the pace of Luis Rogerio Arapiraca and me in pursuit of a medal!“

The 22 Team Pursuit teams entered at the FINA World Championships for Thursday, July 25th race include:

1. ARGENTINA (shown above): Guillermo Vittorio Bertola, Martin Miguel Carrizo Yunges, Florencia Belen Mazzei Villegas

2. AUSTRALIA: Jarrod Poort, Simon Huitenga, Melissa Gorman

3. BRAZIL: Luis Rogerio Arapiraca, Samuel De Bona, Poliana Cintra Okimoto

4. CANADA: Zsofia Balazs, Eric Hedlin, Philippe Guertin

5. CHINA: Shinye Cao, Wenchao Xu, Han Lidu

6. ECUADOR: Katia Paola Barros Esquivel Ivan Alejandro Enderica Ochoa, Santiago Paul Enderica Salgado

7. EGYPT: Youssef Hossameldeen, Adel Ragab, Laila El Basiouny

8. FRANCE: Damien Cattin-Vidal, Aurelie Muller, Bertrand Venturi

9. GERMANY: Isabelle Franziska Härle, Thomas Lurz, Christian Reichert

10. GREECE: Kalliopi Araouzou, Antonios Fokaidis, Spyridon Gianniotis

11. HONG KONG: Fiona On Yi Chan, Hong Li Chun, Leung Sunny Poon Ching