/*Geoff Rathgeber finishes 5th at the Pan American Games.*/
*/Brazil's Thiago Pereira won his fourth gold and set his fourth Pan Am
Games record in 1:57.79.
USA's Robert Margalis took silver with a time of 2:00.69. Bradley Ally
of Barbados took bronze
in 2:00.96. /**/Geoff finished fifth with a time of 2:02.58./*
/*Geoff Rathgeber is off to a strong start with his prelim swim at the
Pan American Games.
*/*Geoff went 2:01.61 (previous best was 2:03.5) making him as the top
seed going into Semi-finals.
26.51 fly
30.98 back
34.89 breast
29.23 free
Semi-finals are Thursday and the Finals are on Friday.
/Go Harvard// ********* Go USA/
**
*
Rathgeber Heads To Brazil for Pan-American Games
Courtesy: Harvard Athletic Communications
Release: 07/11/2007
Geoff Rathgeber will swim the 200-meter IM at the Pan American Games
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Geoff Rathgeber will swim the 200-meter IM at the Pan American Games
While his Harvard teammates, no doubt, are enjoying their summer away
from Cambridge -- visiting with family, working a summer job or
internship, or beginning an off-season training program -- senior-to-be
Geoff Rathgeber will be spending the next two weeks in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, along with 5,500 of his colleagues.
It will be anything but a vacation for the Crimson standout, however,
who is representing the U.S. national team at the 15th Pan American Games.
Rathgeber will compete in the 200-meter individual medley in Rio,
following his eighth-place finish in that event at the 2006 U.S.
national championships. He is part of the 26-man U.S. team that will
swim in this year's Pan American Games -- a team that includes Olympic
gold medalists Gary Hall Jr. and Mark Gangloff.
Competition in the pool begins July 16 and runs through July 22, with
evening preliminary sessions and morning finals.
Rathgeber was named the Most Outstanding Swimmer of the 2007 Eastern
Intercollegiate Swimming League championships and went on to earn
All-America status in the 200-yard IM at the 2007 NCAA championships.
The Pan American Games have been held quadrennially since 1951. The
games are an Olympic-style competition for athletes of the American
continent. A total of 595 athletes will represent the U.S. at the Pan
American Games, which run from July 13-29. This year's Games will
feature more than 5,500 athletes from 42 countries competing in 37
sports and 332 events.
Live coverage of the Pan American Games, including the swimming
competition, will be available on ESPN Desportes.
