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South Africa’s Chad Le Clos dashed to the top of the men’s 100-meter fly finals with a time of 50.56. Le Clos’s time situates him as the new top dog in the 2015 world rankings, improving upon his previous 2015 best of 51.11 from earlier in the meet.
Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh slipped to second after tying Tom Shields of the USA for the first-place seed for finals. Cseh posted a finishing time of 50.87, dropping .04 seconds from his best of 50.91 earlier in the meet. After winning the 200 fly and earning a bronze medal in the 50 fly, Cseh’s silver medal in the 100-meter fly makes him the first male or female athlete to ever medal in all three fly events.
Shields slipped to fourth overall with a time of 51.06, adding only .03 seconds to his 2015 best. This allowed for the young Joseph Schooling of Singapore to claim the bronze medal with a finishing time of 50.96, shaving almost half of a second from his previous best time of 51.40 from earlier in the meet.
France’s Mendy Metella turned in a 51.24 to finish fifth overall, while Poland’s Konrad Czerniak (51.28) and Pawel Korzeniowski (51.46) finished sixth and seventh respectively.
China’s Zhuhao Li rounded out the top eight with a final time of 51.66.
