(Beijing, September 16) The men's division of "Good Luck Beijing" 2007 Beijing BG Triathlon World Cup opened this morning at the Changping Triathlon Venue at the Ming Tombs Reservoir. In the first stage of competition in swimming, Andy Potts, No. 24 of the United States, emerged the winner with 17:29.00. With this result he also won the top prize for swimming, plus a money reward of 500 US dollars. China's Zhang Yiming finished 61th with 18:21.00.

Placing second and third respectively were Clayton Fettell of Australia, and Hirokatsu Tayama of Japan.

The swimming competition was the first event and participants had to swim 1.5km. In order to secure the safety of the triathletes, there were divers and salvors along the course to offer help whenever needed.

According to rules and regulations, athletes are allowed to choose one of their favorite strokes in swimming competition, and it's interesting to note that the competitors would invariably choose freestyle swimming as it is the fastest of all strokes.

In today's swimming event, soon after the competition started, the top swimmers began to show their superiority over the others. Andy Potts of the United States secured his leading position with Clayton Fettell of Australia following along. Finally Andy Potts won the event with two seconds ahead of the runner-up Clayton Fettellthe.