Chad Le Clos Fires Up Meet Record in 50 Fly Semis at Worlds
DOHA – Already a multiple winner this year, South Africa’s Chad le Clos set himself with another potential gold by leading the 50 fly semis at the FINA World Short Course Championships.
Le Clos turned up the heat tonight with a 22.20 meet record. That’s not as fast as his world-leading 21.98 from the Singapore stop of the FINA World Cup, but was good enough to upend the 22.22 meet mark set by Nicholas Santos in 2012.
Santos, meanwhile, claimed the second seed in finals with a time of 22.48. He’s been a bit faster with a third-ranked 22.43 from the Jose Finkel Trophy.
Belarus’ Yauhen Tsurkin turned in a third-seeded 22.54 to move to seventh in the world.
Russia’s Aleksandr Popkov (22.59), Belgium’s Francois Heersbrandt (22.59), Ukraine’s Andrii Govorov (22.61), USA’s Tom Shields (22.70) and France’s Mehdy Metella (22.71) also made the finals.
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- Women’s 200 medley relay finals
- Men’s 50 back semis
- Women’s 100 free finals
- Men’s 50 fly semis
- Women’s 200 back finals
- Men’s 200 breast finals
- Women’s 50 fly finals
- Men’s 400 free finals
- Women’s 100 breast semis
- Women’s 100 IM finals
- Men’s 50 free finals
- Women’s 400 free finals
- Men’s 200 IM finals
- Women’s 400 free relay finals
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