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New Zealand swimmer Melissa Ingram has registered another win at the Fina World Cup series in Moscow today (NZT).
Ingram took out the final of the 200m backstroke on the first night of finals and finished fifth in the 200m freestyle.
The 23-year-old from the Swimming New Zealand High Performance Centre at Millennium Institute cruised through the morning heats of the backstroke in second fastest time of 2:09.14.
She was second at 50m in the final but took control at the midway mark and controlled her pace with maturity, with three splits all in the mid-31 second range to win in 2:04.93. Ingram finished clear of Russia's Maria Nikitina and Japan's Tomoya Fukuda.
It was Ingram's third swim in the series in the 2min 4sec range and today's win was only .2sec outside her New Zealand short course record.
It was her seventh win in the World Cup where she is currently fourth overall on points for women, with tomorrow's 400m freestyle to come and two further rounds in Stockholm and Berlin remaining.
Earlier Ingram was sixth in the final of the 200m freestyle in 1:57.21, won by Sweden's Josefin Lillhage, who is one spot behind the kiwi on the points rankings.
- NZPA
