Taylor Ruck led a Canadian 1-2 with a meet record in the women’s 100-meter finals at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships.
Ruck raced her way to a 53.92 for the win, breaking her own meet mark of 53.95 from yesterday.
That swim moved her even closer to Shen Duo’s World Junior record of 53.84 set back at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. She also nearly cleared Shen as the top 18-and-under in the world this year.
18&Under World Rankings According to USA Swimming Stats
[table “” not found /]Ruck teamed up with compatriot Penny Oleksiak (54.65) to give Canada a 1-2 punch in the finale, while Russia’s Arina Openysheva claimed bronze in 54.78.
Japan’s Rikako Ikee (54.82), Australia’s Shayna Jack (55.38), Australia’s Lucy Elizabeth McJannett (55.39), Japan’s Sachi Mochida (55.56) and USA’s Stanzi Moseley (56.49) also swam for the title.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Women’s 50 fly semis
- Men’s 50 free semis
- Women’s 200 back finals
- Men’s 100 fly finals
- Women’s 100 breast semis
- Men’s 50 back semis
- Women’s 100 free finals
- Men’s 800 free finals
- Mixed 400 free relay finals
I haven’t seen this comment posted yet, but I’d like to thank Swimming World Magazine for listing the “18 and Under World Rankings” under articles re: results from the World Junior Championships because those lists really help put the results in perspective! I would actually appreciate it if the lists were extended to the top 10 rather than top 5, but I appreciate the information nonetheless.
Thanks, Danjohrob!
USA Swimming Stats has definitely done a great job with providing those rankings to us, albeit with a bit of day one controversy since they are going by date of birth and not FINA ages based on the beginning of the year.
We’ve typically only put the top five because those were the only changes we’d seen with the fast times in Singapore. But, we should be able to look a bit deeper when we do see that there is a need for it.
Also, you can look at the PDF from USA Swimming by clicking on the link on the right sidebar that is attached to all of our World Juniors articles. If you are unfamiliar with the new change, all of the links pertaining to a meet are now found on the right.