David Gamburg came within 10 hundredths of a second of reaching the final of the 100-meter backstroke on the first day of the world short course swimming championships in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday.The 21-year-old set a new Israeli record of 50.64 seconds in the morning heats, but couldn’t repeat the performance in the evening semis.He touched the wall after 50.78s to finish in 11th place overall, a mere tenth of a second behind France’s Benjamin Stasiulis, who was the eighth and final man to qualify for the final.console.log("catid body is "+catID);if(catID==120){document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://player.anyclip.com/anyclip-widget/lre-widget/prod/v1/src/lre.js'; script.setAttribute('pubname','jpostcom'); script.setAttribute('widgetname','0011r00001lcD1i_12258'); document.getElementsByClassName('divAnyClip')[0].appendChild(script);}else if(catID!=69 && catID!=2){ document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none"; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js'; script.setAttribute('data-widget-id','60fd6becf6393400049e6535'); document.getElementsByClassName('divVidazoo')[0].appendChild(script); }Israel’s Guy Barnea finished the semifinals in the 16th and last place after clocking a time of 51.64s.Israel’s lone female representative in Doha, Amit Ivry, was the delegation’s first swimmer to compete in a semi on Wednesday.She ended the 50m breaststroke semifinals in 15th place in a time of 30.91s, 23 hundredths of a second slower than her result in the morning heats.The evening session began with an opening ceremony, with Gal Nevo proudly carrying the Israel flag in the Arab country.
