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Men’s 200 fly
A pair of top 20 times in the world went up on the board in the men’s 200-meter fly prelims.
Italy’s Francesco Pavone moved into an 18th-ranked tie with Sebastien Rousseau with a 1:56.40, while Russia’s Evgeny Koptelov put up a 20th-ranked time of 1:56.56 for the second seed.
Both have some time to cut to catch up to Pawel Korzeniowski’s meet record of 1:54.30 from 2009.
USA’s Andrew Seliskar (1:57.21), Great Britain’s Cameron Brodie (1:57.66), Japan’s Yuya Yajima (1:58.15), Russia’s Aleksandr Pribytok (1:58.33), Italy’s Matteo Pelizzari (1:58.35) and France’s Jordan Coelho (1:58.39) also made the top eight.
Seliskar is the favorite in this meet with a season-best 1:55.92 from the Austin stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series and will need to get back to that speed to win gold.
USA’s Kyle Whitaker (1:58.49), New Zealand’s Shaun Burnett (1:58.58), Japan’s Masayuki Umemoto (1:58.62), Australia’s Keiran Qaium (1:58.74), Czech’s Jan Sefl (1:58.81), Poland’s Michal Poprawa (1:59.47), Australia’s Nicholas Brown (1:59.50) and France’s Paul Lemaire (1:59.74) also made semis.
Women’s 200 IM
USA’s Madison Cox put herself in position to take down the Universiade record in the women’s 200-meter IM with a top time of 2:12.79.
That swim is less than a second back of Ava Ohlgren’s 2009 mark of 2:12.07. That’s a huge personal best for Cox, coming into the meet with a 2:14.23 top time from last summer.
Australia’s Ellen Fullerton hit the wall second in the morning with a time of 2:13.75, while Australia’s Aisling Scott qualified third in 2:14.81.
South Korea’s Seoyoung Kim (2:15.28), Japan’s Miho Takahashi (2:15.34), Finland’s Tanja Kylliainen (2:15.34), China’s Zhang Sishi (2:15.40) and Italy’s Luisa Trombetti (2:15.48) closed out the top eight.
USA’s Celina Li led the rest of the semifinalists with a ninth-seeded time of 2:15.61.
Czech’s Barbora Zavadova (2:15.71), Japan’s Emu Higuchi (2:15.77), Canada’s Barbara Rojas-Jardin (2:16.21), Taipei’s Wan-Jung Cheng (2:16.76), Sweden’s Jaqueline Hippi (2:17.06), Russia’s Viktoriia Malyutina (2:17.06), and Ireland’s Sycerika McMahon (2:17.59) also grabbed semi spots.
Men’s 200 breast
Russia’s Kirill Prigoda paced prelims in the men’s 200-meter breast with a time of 2:12.28 as one of just a trio of swimmers to put up 2:12s this morning during qualifying.
Great Britain’s Craig Benson raced his way to a second-seeded time of 2:12.62, while USA’s Josh Prenot put up a third-seeded 2:12.89.
Russia’s Marat Amaltdinov (2:13.12), Australia’s Nicholas Schafer (2:13.19), Great Britain’s Calum Tait (2:13.34), Italy’s Flavio Bizzarri (2:13.47) and Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandin (2:13.15) closed out the rest of the top eight semifinalists.
Japan’s Kazuki Kohinata (2:13.53), USA’s DJ MacDonald (2:13.57), Japan’s Akihiro Yamaguchi (2:13.65), Ireland’s Nicholas Quinn (2:13.70), Ukraine’s Dmytro Oseledets (2:13.88), Italy’s Luca Pizzini (2:14.06), Israel’s Ronen Faur (2:14.07) and Germany’s Max Pilger (2:14.21) will also compete in semis.
Women’s 100 back
Canada’s Kylie Masse was the only swimmer to clear 1:01 this morning as she earned the top seed heading into semis with a time of 1:00.58.
The California Golden Bear American teammates Elizabeth Pelton (1:01.01) and Rachel Bootsma (1:01.04) put up easy speed 1:01s to put themselves into strong spots in semis.
Czech’s Simona Baumrtova (1:01.40), Italy’s Carlotta Zofkova (1:01.60), Kazakhstan’s Yekaterina Rudenko (1:01.67), Russia’s Polina Lapshina (1:01.81) and Australia’s Holly Barratt (1:01.82) qualified fourth through eighth.
Canada’s Marie-Pier Couillard (1:01.97), Japan’s Miki Takahashi (1:02.00), New Zealand’s Caroline Baddock (1:02.06), Japan’s Yuka Kawayoke (1:02.34), France’s Camille Gheorghiu (1:02.34), The Netherlands’ Kira Toussaint (1:02.34), Italy’s Stefania Cartapani (1:02.36) and Australia’s Hayley White (1:02.49) will also put up times in semis.
Men’s 50 back
Japan’s Junya Hasegawa turned in the top time in a stacked men’s 50-meter back field with a time of 25.44.
Italy’s Stefano Pizzamiglio touched just behind with a second-seeded time of 25.47, while South Korea’s Seonkwan Park qualified third in 25.75. Brazil’s Henrique Martins matched Park’s time as well with a 25.75 of his own.
Russia’s Nikita Ulyanov (25.85), Japan’s Kosuke Matsui (25.85), Belarus’ Viktar Staselovich (25.87) and Italy’s Matteo Milli (25.94) snared fifth through eighth seeds in prelims.
France’s Eddie Moueddene (25.95), Belarus’ Maksim Dzialendzik (25.97), Indonesia’s Gede Sudartawa (25.99), Germany’s Felix Wolf (26.04), Great Britain’s Joseph Patching (26.06), USA’s Jacob Pebley (26.09), Lithuania’s Gytis Stankevicius (26.13) and South Korea’s Heewoong Shin (26.14) qualified ninth through 16th to close out semis.
Men’s 400 free
Great Britain’s Jay Lelliott continued his breakthrough meet with a 3:51.41 to top qualifying in the middle distance event.
Australia’s Jack McLoughlin also put up a 3:51 as he clocked a second-seeded time of 3:51.48.
The top duo will have to drop some serious time to challenge Przemyslaw Stancysk’s meet record of 3:46.72 from 2009.
Japan’s Naito Ehara snared the third seed with a time of 3:52.17, while Italy’s Damiano Lestingi picked up fourth in 3:52.20.
Russia’s Aleksandr Fedorov (3:52.43), South Korea’s Seungho Baek (3:52.46), Ukraine’s Sergii Frolov (3:52.71) and USA’s Reed Malone (3:52.71) will also compete in the championship field.
2015 World University Games, Day 3 Prelims – Results
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Men’s 200 fly
- Women’s 200 IM
- Men’s 200 breast
- Women’s 100 back
- Men’s 50 back
- Men’s 400 free
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Who was the genius who thought it would be a good idea to race the men’s finals of the 200m free and 400m free on the same night? I wonder if there are any other blunders in the program.