LAS VEGAS — A former Cal swimmer won the first swimming event at
the Enhanced Games without taking any performance-enhancing drugs that the competition allowed — and was immediately tested for drugs following his races.
Hunter Armstrong, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and former member of
Cal's postgraduate training group, finished first in the 50-meter backstroke on Sunday against three other swimmers: Sohib Khaled (Egypt), Shane Ryan (Ireland) and Antoni Ivanov (Bulgaria). He reached the end of the pool with a time of 24.21, which was a half-second shy of his personal best 23.71, the former world record, and also shy of the 23.55 current world record.