"backstroke by" is not a grammatically correct phrase.
It could possibly be used in informal spoken English, but it would be better to rephrase it as "swimming backstroke by" or "doing the backstroke." For example: "She won the race with her smooth and steady backstroke by the end."
Although Rice pulled ahead in the butterfly, she was challenged in the backstroke by Hosszu.
Then he won the 200-meter backstroke by 9 meters in 1 56.10.
Things only got better in 2011, when she set the first world record of her career in the 200m backstroke by 0.15 seconds.
Coughlin won the 200 backstroke by nearly five seconds over Pamela Hanson (2 09.73), so it is easy to see why she is considered one of the brightest young hopes for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The men had a little more success than the women, winning five events — including an impressive swim in the 200-yard backstroke by Connor Maher '15, who nearly set a program record — but ultimately suffered the same fate, as Harvard led throughout the meet and pulled away for a comfortable victory.
She had a chance to match the record of four individual swimming golds for a woman at an Olympics, set by East Germany's Kristin Otto in Seoul in 1988, but Hosszu settled for silver in the 200-m backstroke by just 0.06 second.
A 400-meter individual medley is 100 meters of butterfly, followed by 100 meters of backstroke, followed by 100 meters of breaststroke, followed by 100 meters of freestyle.
The Swansea swimmer made up for her frustration at missing Tuesday's 100m backstroke final by lowering the national mark to 27.96 seconds as she won by almost a second from Ekaterina Avramova.
Krayzelburg lowered his own 200-meter backstroke record by.05 of a second, to 1 52.43, after recording a 100-meter backstroke record (51.28) Saturday.
It was better news for Mitch Larkin, who grabbed silver in the men's 200m backstroke, overtaken by American Ryan Murphy at the last.
Lauren Quigley reached Thursday's 50m backstroke final by finishing seventh fastest in 27.88.
