The Care Center remained in Mary Jibb during Tuesday’s races in the World Swimming Championship.
For the second consecutive day, the Canadian athlete eliminated one of the national Stephanie Dixon albums, this time in the final butterfly of 100 meters female.
Jibb, 18, registered a 10.29 second minute for the fifth in the OCBC Aquatic Center In Singapore. Xu Jialing of China repeated as a world gold medalist in 1: 08.24, 25-100º second ahead of Zsofia Konkoly (1: 08.49) of the Netherlands. Emily Beecroft of Australia (1: 08.65) took the bronze. Last summer, Konkoly and Beecroft also grabbed money and bronze at the Paris Paralympic Games.
Dixon recorded 1: 11.04 in the 100 in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing when Jibb was one year old.
“I am very happy with that race,” Jibb told Swimming Canada. “That was the plan, go 1:10, maybe even 1:09,” said Jibb, who had published a better personal brand of 1: 11.44 in the morning.
“Despite this morning’s fast times, the plan was that we were going to compete with the girls tonight, and I feel that I did a very good job. My backend speed was really good.
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Mary Jibb of Muskoka, Ontario, established a new Canadian record time of 1: 10.29 in the SM9 butterfly final of 100 meters female, finishing fifth in that race, in the World Singapur Swimming Championship.
“Looking at those times, six months ago, they seemed so big“Jibb continued, the former member of the Muskoka Aquatic Club who moved to Surrey, BC, last March to train with Jy Lawrence with the wolves of the Pacific Sea.
Jibb, who was born and grew in Bracebridge, Ontario, was seventh in the turna in Tuesday, but the fourth faster arrival and climbed two places in the last 50 meters.
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Mary Jibb of Muskoka, Ontario, established a record time of Américas of 2: 32.90 in the individual SM9 final of 200 female meters, to claim the first Gold Medal of Canada in the World Swimming World Championship for Singapore.
He obtained the first gold medal for Canada in these championships on Monday, lowering his Canadian record and America to 2: 32.90 in the final of 200 individual SM9 combinations of women.
Jibb suffered a stroke at five years that affected his right side. He began to practice swimming as physiotherapy and led to training for competitions.
Other Canadian results on Tuesday:
Nick BennettParksville, BC – 4th, stroke for men of 100 m s14 (1: 04.90)
Alec ElliottKitchener, Ontario. – 7th, Men’s 400 Freestyle S10 (4: 21.00, the best season)
Jordan TuckerGuelph, Ontario. – 7th, Women’s 50 Fly S5 (54.46 seconds); 11th, 150 SM4 Women’s Meaders (3: 44.25)
Sebastian MassabieSurrey, BC – 10th, Men 50 Fly S5 (36.27)
Reid MaxwellSt. Albert, Alta. – 10th, Men’s 100 Fly S8 (1: 07.50)
Look | Complete reproduction coverage of the 3 Singapore night events:
Note how medals win the third day of competition in the World Singapur Swimming Championship.
