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Vollmer wins 100m butterfly
Reuters | HT Correspondent, London
Updated on: Jul 30, 2012 01:32 am IST
Dana Vollmer ended a lifetime of frustration and battles with her health to win the 100 metres butterfly gold medal in world record time at the London Olympics on Sunday.
Dana Vollmer ended a lifetime of frustration and battles with her health to win the 100 metres butterfly gold medal in world record time at the London Olympics on Sunday.
The American, swimming like a woman possessed, powered her way through two laps of the Aquatic Centre to win in 55.98 seconds, slicing 0.08 off the previous mark set by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom at the 2009 world championships in Rome.
In 2003, Vollmer underwent heart surgery to correct a condition which produced a faster than normal pulse and forced her to take a defibrillator to all her races and training sessions.
She was diagnosed with an egg allergy after she missed out on the Beijing Olympic team, following which she was put on a new gluten-free diet.
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