Three-Peat!! Oscar Pereiro Wins His Third Consecutive NCAA Division II 100 Yard Backstroke Title
Purple Knights Sit In Eighth Place In Team Standings After Three Of Four Days Of Action
Birmingham, Alabama-University of Bridgeport junior Oscar Pereiro (Arzua, Spain) won his third consecutive NCAA Division II championship in the men's 100 Yard Backstroke on Friday night as he topped the field at the 2013 NCAA National Championship with a time of 47.04. Oscar and his UB teammates now sit in eighth place out of the 28 teams that have scored with 164 points through three days of the four-day event. Drury leads the men's standings with 398 points.
Classmate Ruben Gimenez (Burgos, Spain) joined Pereiro as an All-American on Friday taking fifth place in the 100 Yard Breaststroke in a time of 53.94. Senior Vyacheslav Fattakhov (Almatt, Kazakhstan) took eleventh place in the same event in a time of 55.23 to earn Honorable Mention All-American honors.
The Purple Knights closed out action on Friday with a thirteenth place finish in the 800 Yard Freestyle Relay, as the team of Fattakhov, Vladislav Paskas (So., Zrenjanin, Serbia), Artur Pietrzak (Sr., Lezno, Poland) and graduate student Krzysztof Wilk (Krakow, Poland) turned in a time of 6:48.79.
Action at NCAA Division II Men's Swimming National Championship Meet concludes on Saturday night as part of the 2013 NCAA D II Winter Sports Festival in Birmingham, Alabama.