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Tomer Frenkel on the podium (Indiana University)
The college swimming championships continued tonight (Friday-Saturday) in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, and this time the star from the Israeli angle was Tomer Frenkel. The Indiana College swimmer recorded a record achievement when he finished fifth in the 100-yard butterfly final in a time of 44.56 seconds. It was the Israeli’s first college championship final of his career, having finished twice in ninth place last year. In the same ointment Gal Cohen Gromi of the College of Michigan finished in tenth place with an excellent personal record of 44.82 seconds.
Frenkel did not content himself with this and as part of his college’s 4×100 mixed relay quartet won a silver medal. The Israeli jumped into the water after 200 yards when his team was third, and with a huge 100 of 44.19 seconds raised his team to first place. In the end, Indiana finished in second place after Cal, who closed the ointment faster in the freestyle and overtook Indiana by 31 hundredths.
In the same ointment, Stanford and Ron Polonsky finished in sixth place with 50.98 seconds of the Israeli in 100 breaststroke. Polonsky also finished 12th in the 400m individual medley final, with 3: 40.41 minutes. Michigan and Gal Cohen Gromi finished 22 in the relays, with Gromi setting a butterfly of 45.35 seconds. In the 200 free, Daniel Namir of Arizona set 1: 33.69 d and finished 34, Bar Soloveitchik set 1: 34.32 d and finished 41.
