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Women’s 50 breast
A pair of swimmers lit up the pool with sub 31s this morning in the sprint breaststroke.
Russia’s Natalia Ivaneeva raced her way to the top seed in 30.88 to move to 10th in the world rankings. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Mariia Liver snared the second seed in 30.91 to stand 11th in the world now.
Japan’s Mina Matsushima qualified third in 31.00 to tie for 16th in the world, while Italy’s Martina Carraro snared the fourth seed in 31.18.
Italy’s Ilaria Scarcella (31.28), South Korea’s Hyejin Kim (31.31), USA’s Emma Reaney (31.37) and USA’s Lilly King (31.40) claimed the rest of the top eight spots.
Ireland’s Fiona Doyle (31.57), South Africa’s Tara-Lynn Nicholas (31.65), Great Britain’s Kathryn Johnstone (32.00), Ireland’s Sycerika McMahon (32.02), Australia’s Jessica Hansen (32.03), Germany’s Laura Simon (32.04), Sweden’s Jessica Eriksson (32.14) and Russia’s Daria Deeva (32.25) closed out the semi field.
Men’s 50 free
Team USA went 1-3 in the men’s sprint free qualifying.
Seth Stubblefield led the entire field with a time of 22.41, while teammate Paul Powers checked in third in with a 22.58.
Russia’s Oleg Tikhobaev (22.57) and Japan’s Kosuke Matsui (22.62) snared the second and fourth seeds.
Brazil’s Henrique Martins, a double winner with victories in the 50 fly and 100 free, put up a 22.63 for the fifth seed.
Italy’s Giuseppe Guttuso (22.73), Russia’s Ivan Kuzmenko (22.82) and New Zealand’s Daniel Hunter (22.85) qualified sixth through eighth.
Belarus’ Yauhen Tsurkin (22.86), Belarus’ Anton Latkin (22.87), France’s Yonel Govindin (22.90), Poland’s Filip Wypych (22.90), South Korea’s Joonmo Bae (22.95), South Africa’s Luke Pendock (22.96), South Africa’s Doug Erasmus (22.96) and Ukraine’s Bogdan Plavin (22.97) also made semis.
Women’s 200 fly
A pair of 2:10s went up on the board this morning in the women’s 200-meter fly.
USA’s Hali Flickinger led the way with a time of 2:10.21, while Italy’s Stefania Pirozzi placed as close of a second as you can with a 2:10.22.
Canada’s Jessica Strydom (2:12.06), Japan’s Misuzu Yabu (2:12.69), USA’s Emma Nunn (2:12.81), Japan’s Yuna Kikuchi (2:12.86), China’s Zhou Yilin (2:12.93) and Italy’s Alessia Polieri (2:12.96) clocked in with 2:12s to also make semis.
New Zealand’s Helena Gasson (2:13.34), Germany’s Tina Rueger (2:13.70), Israel’s Keren Siebner (2:14.23), Australia’s Tianni Gilmour (2:14.28), Czech’s Barbora Zavadova (2:14.99), Russia’s Mariia Arseneva (2:15.28), Finland’s Tanja Kylliainen (2:15.34) and New Zealand’s Samantha Lee (2:15.55) comprise the rest of the semifinalist field.
Women’s 50 free
Russia’s Rozaliya Nasretdinova put up the top time in what looks to be a loaded field in the 50 free.
Nasretdinova clocked a 25.28, and has a bit of time to drop to catch up to Aleksandra Gerasimenya’s 2013 meet record of 24.48.
Ukraine’s Darya Stepanyuk qualified second in 25.33 with Austria’s Birgit Koschischek (25.38) and Australia’s Holly Barratt (25.39) earning third and fourth.
USA’s Madeline Locus (25.46), Russia’s Elizaveta Bazarova (25.50), USA’s Abbey Weitzeil (25.57) and Japan’s Aya Sato (25.58) claimed the fifth through eighth seeds.
Italy’s Aglaia Pezzato (25.65), Sweden’s Josefin Lindkvist (25.65), Australia’s Ami Matsuo (25.69), Canada’s Hannah Riordan (25.70), Canada’s Caroline Lapierre Lemire (25.74), France’s Lauriane Haag (25.76), Japan’s Mari Sumiyoshi (25.95) and Sweden’s Nathalie Lindborg (25.95) also clinched spots in semis.
Men’s 800 free relay
Team USA topped the men’s 800-meter free relay heats with a comfortable time of 7:19.83.
Andrew Cosgarea (1:51.01), Andrew Seliskar (1:49.93), Sam Lewis (1:49.76) and Kyle Whitaker (1:49.13) put together that top time, and a new set of swimmers will be looking to challenge Russia’s meet record of 7:05.49 from 2013 during finals.
Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto (1:51.20), Takumi Komatsu (1:48.96), Naito Ehara (1:49.58) and Reo Sakata (1:50.42) qualified second in 7:2016.
France’s Theo Fuchs (1:51.05), Ganesh Pedurand (1:50.27), Jonathan Atsu (1:48.99) and Simon Guerin (1:50.27) claimed the third seed in 7:20.58.
Australia (7:22.66), Russia (7:22.78), Italy (7:23.51), China (7:23.71) and Czech (7:29.15) also made finals.
Women’s 800 free
The Italians closed out prelims with a 1-2 in the women’s distance event.
Martina Caramignoli, who has been on a mission here in Gwangju during distance events, topped qualifying in 8:35.54. She has plenty of time to drop to challenge Flavia Rigamonti’s meet record of 8:25.59 from 2009.
Teammate Martina De Memme qualified second in 8:38.39 with Australia’s Kiah Melverton snaring the third seed in 8:42.17.
USA’s Kathryn Campbell (8:43.71) and Lindsay Vrooman (8:44.93) went back-to-back in qualifying to take the fourth and fifth seeds into the finale.
Poland’s Justyna Burska (8:45.08), Japan’s Asami Chida (8:45.51) and Czech’s Martina Elheicka (8:49.38) also managed to make their way into finals with a grand total of three Martinas in the race.
2015 World University Games, Day 6 Prelims – Results
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Women’s 50 breast
- Men’s 50 free
- Women’s 200 fly
- Women’s 50 free
- Men’s 800 free relay
- Women’s 800 free
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