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Men’s 800 free
Great Britain’s Jay Lelliott torched the rest of the preliminary heats with a strong time of 7:55.81 as far and away the best swim of the morning.
That time is only a few seconds back of the top 10 in the world currently anchored by Yosuke Miyamoto with a 7:53.05. Lelliott will need to drop some serious time to challenge the meet record held by Chad LaTourette with a 7:47.24 from 2009.
USA’s Janardan Burns broke 8:01 for the first time in his career with a strong 7:59.06 for the second seed, while Ukraine’s Sergii Frolov claimed third in prelims with a 7:59.88 to round out the sub-8:00 performers.
Japan’s Ayatsugu Hirai (8:00.69), USA’s Arthur Frayler (8:00.93), Australia’s Jack McLoughlin (8:01.21), Australia’s Jordan Harrison (8:01.30) and Japan’s Kohei Yamamoto (8:03.69) also made tomorrow’s finale.
Women’s 50 fly
There could be a new Universiade record in the women’s 50-meter fly with the semifinalists assembled out of prelims this morning.
Aleksandra Gerasimenya’s 2013 time of 25.84 could be under duress as Australia’s Holly Barratt led the way with a 26.54. China’s Lu Ying (26.55) and Russia’s Svetlana Chimrova (26.66) qualified second and third.
Canada’s Samantha Corea (26.68), USA’s Felicia Lee (26.76), Slovakia’s Katarina Listopadova (26.77), Russia’s Alina Kashinskaya (26.89) and Italy’s Elena Di Liddo (26.94) all cleared 27 seconds for the top eight.
Ukraine’s Nadiia Koba (27.02), Ukraine’s Darya Stepanyuk (27.09), USA’s Christina Bechtel (27.09), New Zealand’s Laura Quilter (27.12), South Africa’s Jessica Ashley-Cooper (27.16), Japan’s Rino Hosoda (27.30), Ireland’s Shauna O’Brien (27.40) and South Africa’s Marne Erasmus (27.41) also made semis.
Men’s 100 back
Japan’s Junya Hasegawa will look to give Japan some better news today after his compatriot Kosuke Hagino had to withdraw from the World Championships with a broken right elbow today.
Hasegawa, already 20th in the world with a 54.00 from Japanese Nationals, led prelims with a time of 54.27.
USA’s Jack Conger hit the wall second in prelims with a time of 54.86, while Italy’s Christopher Ciccarese earned the third seed in 54.98. That trio will have a hard time tracking down Ryosuke Irie’s meet record of 52.60 from 2009, but could challenge for the top 10 in the world currently held by Camille Lacourt with a 53.60.
USA’s Jacob Pebley (55.17), Japan’s Yuma Edo (55.26), Italy’s Matteo Milli (55.49), Great Britain’s Joe Patching (55.50) and Russia’s Andrei Shabasov (55.76) made the top eight.
South Korea’s Seonkwan Park (55.82), France’s Eddie Moueddene (55.83), Germany’s Felix Wolf (56.06), Poland’s Krzysztof Morawski (56.09), Russia’s Nikita Ulyanov (56.11), Germany’s Max Claussen (56.33), Canada’s Jeremie De Zwirek (56.34) and Sweden’s Axel Pettersson (56.35) also claimed spots in semis.
Women’s 400 IM
USA’s Sarah Henry unloaded a personal best in the distance medley to lead preliminary qualifying.
Henry turned in a 4:39.62 to lead the way in prelims and take 18th in the world rankings. That her first time under 4:40 ever, clearing her previous best of 4:40.72 from the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
If Henry can summon a truly transcendent swim during finals, she might be able to take down Yana Klochkova’s 2007 meet record of 4:37.50.
Czech’s Barbora Zavadova (4:41.40) and USA’s Hali Flickinger (4:41.48) qualified second and third as they pushed each other to the limit in heat 3.
Australia’s Ellen Fullerton (4:42.22), Italy’s Luisa Trombetti (4:42.45), Italy’s Stefania Pirozzi (4:43.77), South Korea’s Seoyeong Kim (4:44.86) and China’s Li Xuanxu (4:46.05) will also vie for the championship title tonight.
Men’s 100 breast
Great Britain’s Craig Benson nearly moved into the top 20 in the world with a top time in the 100-meter breast.
Benson clocked a 1:00.46 for the top seed, just off Richard Funk’s 20th-ranked 1:00.44 from Canadian Trials. He’ll need a big drop to contend with Igor Borysik’s meet record of 59.53 from 2009.
Australia’s Nicholas Schafer finished second in prelims with a time of 1:00.90, while Russia’s Oleg Kostin also cleared 1:01 with a third-seeded 1:00.91.
Great Britain’s Jay Wilby (1:01.10), Serbia’s Caba Siladji (1:01.15), Italy’s Andrea Toniato (1:01.26), Japan’s Kazuki Kohinata (1:01.32) and Kazakhstan’s Dmitry Balandin (1:01.48) claimed the top eight spots into semis.
Slovakia’s Tomas Klobucnik (1:01.60), Italy’s Lorenzo Antonelli (1:01.61), Germany’s Fabian Schwingenshlogl (1:01.74), USA’s Daniel MacDonald (1:01.79), Russia’s Anton Lobanov (1:01.82), Ireland’s Nicholas Quinn (1:01.84), Ukraine’s Dmytro Oseledets (1:01.95) and Japan’s Akihiro Yamaguchi (1:01.97) will also contend for finals spots in semis.
Women’s 200 back
Lisa Bratton led a United States 1-3 in prelims with a 2:11.97. Melanie Klaren claimed the third seed in the 200 back with a time of 2:12.10.
Bratton just clipped Japan’s Yuka Kawayoke for the top seed as Kawayoke qualified second in 2:11.98.
The top trio definitely have a lot of time to drop to catch Stephanie Proud’s 2009 meet record of 2:08.91.
Canada’s Genevieve Cantin (2:12.87), Japan’s Niki Takahashi (2:12.19), Canada’s Barbara Rojas–Jardin (2:13.79), Czech’s Simona Baumrtova (2:13.95) and France’s Camille Gheorghiu (2:14.02) also made the top eight into semis.
Italy’s Carlotta Zofkova (2:14.51), Australia’s Hayley White (2:14.59), Hong Kong’s Stephanie Au (2:15.09), Russia’s Anastasia Klyarovskaya (2:15.22), Hong Kong’s Claudia Lau (2:15.23), Germany’s Nadine Laemmler (2:15.56), New Zealand’s Kate Godfrey (2:15.74) and Russia’s Alexandra Papusha (2:16.25) earned the other transfer spots into semis.
Men’s 50 fly
Brazil’s Henrique Martins matched his ninth-ranked season best in the men’s 50-meter fly with a strong 23.38 for the top swim of the morning. Previously, he clocked that time at the Maria Lenk Trophy meet in Rio de Janeiro.
Martins could make a run at Jason Dunford’s 2009 meet record of 23.09 during semis this evening.
Italy’s Piero Codia (23.70), Belarus’ Yauhen Tsurkin (23.71), Russia’s Oleg Kostin (23.89), Russia’s Aleksandr Sadovnikov (23.91) and USA’s Matt Josa (23.95) also cleared 24 seconds to make semis.
China’s Shi Yang (24.05) and USA’s Andrew Seliskar (24.05) tied for the seventh seed to round out the top eight.
Italy’s Marco Belotti (24.20), Japan’s Junya Hasegawa (24.26), South Korea’s Haneol Kwon (24.36), Czech’s Jan Sefl (24.39), South Africa’s Nico Mayer (24.43), France’s Yonel Govindin (24.46), Poland’s Michal Poprawa (24.53) and Indonesia’s Glenn Sutanto (24.53) will also try for finals spots during semis.
Women’s 400 free relay
Based on unofficial results, Team USA smoked the rest of the teams in prelims with a 3:40.04. The relay was made up by Lia Neal (55.00), Madeline Locus (54.71), Elizabeth Pelton (55.07) and Felicia Lee (55.26).
Russia’s Polina Lapshina (55.76), Rozaliya Nasretdinova (56.74), Margarita Nesterova (54.91) and Elizaveta Bazarova (56.14) qualified second in 3:43.55. Japan’s Yui Yamane (55.87), Yasuko Miyamoto (55.65), Aya Sato (56.16) and Mari Sumiyoshi (55.93) earned the third seed in 3:43.61.
Italy (3:44.25), China (3:44.61), Australia (3:44.75), Canada (3:45.58) and Sweden (3:46.06) also made finals.
Men’s 400 free relay
Team USA’s Paul Powers (50.13), Michael Wynalda (48.71), Clay Youngquist (49.74) and John Murray (49.21) put up a time of 3:17.79 to lead the rest of the field by nearly two seconds.
Japan’s Reo Sakata (49.71), Kosuke Matsui (50.42), Takumi Komatsu (49.55) and Toru Maruyama (49.98) qualified second in 3:19.66 with Australia’s Travis Mahoney (49.95), Jacob Hansford (50.21), Justin James (48.79) and Jack McLoughlin (50.86) snaring the third seed in 3:19.81.
Russia (3:20.68), Italy (3:20.97), Turkey (3:21.96), South Africa (3:22.26) and Belarus (3:22.34) also made finals.
2015 World University Games, Day 1 Prelims – Results
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Men’s 800 free
- Women’s 50 fly
- Men’s 100 back
- Women’s 400 IM
- Men’s 100 breast
- Women’s 200 back
- Men’s 50 fly
- Women’s 400 free relay
- Men’s 400 free relay
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Janardan Burns went 7:59.06 to win heat 2, beat his 8:01 seed time, not sure if that’s a PB.
It is a best time! First time under 8:01
That’s awesome although I see several swimmers held back especially Harrison– I thought he’d be a favorite but I don’t know anything about Lelliot in fact I haven’t heard of him before that I can remember.
Definitely looked like it. Lelliott definitely is a bit of a darkhorse.
Jason do you know why Lee was the only entrant in the 50 fly?
She wasn’t. Bechtel made semis.
That’s odd; I can’t find her in either the start list or the results; her event list just shows 100 fly. (on the WUG website).
Not too surprising. WUGs just barely put up all the entries yesterday. There are bound to be some mistakes.
ah ok good to know, thanks. Did she hit her seed time?
No. She had a seed time of 26.72 on the heat sheets.