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Neil Robert Versfeld (born March 29, 1985) is a South African swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He is a multiple-time South African champion and record holder for the 200 m breaststroke. Versfeld also set a new World Cup record time of 2:02.56 at the fourth meet of the 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany. Versfield swam collegiately for the Georgia Bulldogs (UGA). As a UGA senior in 2008 he won an individual national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Championships by swimming the fastest time in the history of the event (1:51.40). At UGA Versfeld was a seven-time All-American and graduated as the team record-holder in the 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard medley relay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UGA Swim and Dive Team 2007-2008 Season Review )〕 Versfeld qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing second behind William Diering from the national championships, in a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:12.33. Versfeld posted a ninth fastest time of 2:10.50 in the preliminary heats to secure his spot for the semifinals. His time was just 0.11 of a second off the South African record set by Diering. Followed by the next morning's session, Versfeld rebounded a record time to 2:10.06 in his semifinal run, but nearly missed out the final by nine hundredths of a second (0.09). At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Versfeld dipped under a 2:10 barrier to lower his South African record time to 2:09.61 in the semifinals of the 200 m breaststroke. Versfeld is also a resident athlete of Seals Swimming Club in South Africa, a member of the swimming team for the Georgia Bulldogs, and a graduate of housing and consuming economics at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. ==See also== * List of University of Georgia people 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neil Versfeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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