Alicia Coutts Overhauls China’s Lu Ying for 100 Fly Win (Pan Pacific Championships Results)
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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 23.
It was certainly a close call as Alicia Coutts returned the 100 fly title back to the Australians for the fourth time, joining Susie O’Neill and Jessicah Schipper as Aussie victors in the event. Coutts raced her way to a 57.64 to 57.76 win against China’s Lu Ying in the finale. Coutts has been faster this year with a 57.60 to rank eighth in the world, while Lu moved up to 12th in the event with her swim.
USA’s Kendyl Stewart raced her way onto the podium, edging Australia’s Emma McKeon, 57.82 to 57.85, for the bronze medal. That’s a season best for Stewart, lower than her 57.98 from Nationals, while McKeon came up short of her 57.66 from the Commonwealth Games.
Canada’s Katerine Savard (57.95), USA’s Claire Donahue (58.31), Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros (58.67) and Canada’s Audrey Lacroix (58.82) also vied for the title in the finale.
A Final Results
1 COUTTS, ALICIA 26 AUSTRALIA 57.84 57.64 916 r:+0.73 27.40 57.64 (30.24) 2 LU, YING 25 CHINA 58.74 57.76 910 r:+0.68 27.01 57.76 (30.75) 3 STEWART, KENDYL 20 UNITED STATES 58.47 57.82 907 r:+0.80 27.02 57.82 (30.80) 4 MCKEON, EMMA 20 AUSTRALIA 58.29 57.85 906 r:+0.73 26.98 57.85 (30.87) 5 SAVARD, KATERIN 21 CANADA 59.15 57.95 901 r:+0.61 26.90 57.95 (31.05) 6 DONOHUE, CLAIRE 25 UNITED STATES 58.41 58.31 884 r:+0.65 27.09 58.31 (31.22) 7 MEDEIROS, ETIEN 23 BRAZIL 59.29 58.67 868 r:+0.65 27.39 58.67 (31.28) 8 LACROIX, AUDREY 30 CANADA 59.40 58.82 862 r:+0.67 27.42 58.82 (31.40)
It wasn’t the same speed as her 16th-ranked 58.14 from U.S. Nationals, but USA’s Felicia Lee still managed to trump the rest of the consolation heat by a pretty wide margin with a 58.37.
Australia’s Madeline Groves took second in 58.88, while Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi claimed third in 59.20.
Brazil’s Daynara de Paula (59.66), Japan’s Miki Uchida (59.68), Japan’s Miyu Nakano (59.75), New Zealand’s Samantha Lee (1:00.44) and South Africa’s Vanessa Mohr (1:01.9) put up the rest of the B final swims.
B Final Results
9 LEE, FELICIA 22 UNITED STATES 58.59 58.37 882 r:+0.67 27.47 58.37 (30.90) 10 GROVES, MADELIN 19 AUSTRALIA 59.84 58.88 859 r:+0.75 27.42 58.88 (31.46) 11 HOSHI, NATSUMI 24 JAPAN 59.81 59.20 845 r:+0.63 27.92 59.20 (31.28) 12 DE PAULA, DAYNA 21 BRAZIL 59.62 59.66 826 r:+0.77 27.03 59.66 (32.63) 13 UCHIDA, MIKI 19 JAPAN 59.86 59.68 825 r:+0.72 27.60 59.68 (32.08) 14 NAKANO, MIYU 16 JAPAN 1:00.32 59.75 822 r:+0.70 27.92 59.75 (31.83) 15 LEE, SAMANTHA 22 NEW ZEALAND 1:00.81 1:00.44 794 r:+0.77 28.18 1:00.44 (32.26) 16 MOHR, VANESSA 19 SOUTH AFRICA 1:00.22 1:01.19 765 r:+0.68 28.47 1:01.19 (32.72)