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The second night of action from the pool at Budapest at the 2017 FINA World Championships featured lots of exciting action. Hungarian Katinka Hosszu delivered a gold medal for the home crowd with her third straight 200 IM World Title. Adam Peaty and Sarah Sjostrom just missed their World Records in their respective events but they defended their 2015 World Titles in the process. Great Britain picked up another gold on the night with Ben Proud in the 50 fly.
Americans picked up medals from Kevin Cordes (silver) in the 100 breast, Kelsi Worrell (bronze) in the 100 fly and Madisyn Cox (bronze) in the 200 IM.
Men’s 100 Breast
It wasn’t a world record, but Brit Adam Peaty repeated his World Championship gold from 2015 on Monday night in Budapest at the FINA World Championships. Peaty won the race with a 57.47 and a championship record. Peaty was just shy of his 57.13 world record from last year.
Kevin Cordes picked up a silver in the race with a 58.79 and Russian Kirill Prigoda was third at 59.05. Prigoda’s time was a Russian national record.
Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki (59.10), USA’s Cody Miller (59.11), Lithuania’s Andrius Sidlauskas (59.21), China’s Yan Zibei (59.42) and Britain’s Ross Murdoch (59.45) also swam in the championship final.
Peaty’s win is the third gold medal for Britain in the 100 breast at the World Championships. He joins himself (2015) and David Wilkie (1975) as World Championship winners in this event.
Women’s 100 Fly
Similar to Adam Peaty in the 100 breast, Sarah Sjostrom was not expected to lose in the women’s 100 fly final, as she was chasing her world record from Rio last summer. Sjostrom just missed the record as she went 55.53 to break the championship record, but missed her best time of 55.48.
She got some pressure from either side of her as Australian Emma McKeon (56.18) and American Kelsi Worrell (56.37) pushed her the whole race. The time for McKeon is an Australian record to move past 2008 Olympic champion Libby Trickett.
Canada’s Penny Oleksiak (56.94), South Korea’s An Sehyeon (57.07), Japan’s Rikako Ikee (57.08), Russia’s Svetlana Chimrova (57.24) and China’s Zhang Yufei (57.51) also competed in the championship final.
This is Sjostrom’s fourth overall World Championship gold medal as she previously won in 2009, 2013 and 2015.
Men’s 100 Back (SF)
Chinese swimmer Xu Jiayu cruised over the last 25 in his semi-final heat to grab the number one seed for the 100 back tomorrow night with a 52.44. Xu was out under world record pace and let up over the last few meters in his swim. He leads Americans Ryan Murphy (52.95) and Matt Grevers (52.97) into Tuesday’s final.
Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (53.02), Russia’s Grigory Tarasevich (53.06), Australia’s Mitchell Larkin (53.19), Brazil’s Guilherme Guido (53.71) and New Zealand’s Corey Main (53.76) will also swim in the A-final tomorrow.
There was a tie for ninth place so a swim-off was in order for first alternate. Russian Kliment Kolesnikov broke the world junior record with a 53.38 in the 100 back swim-off. Kolesnikov lowered his own world junior record that was a 53.65 from July 2016.
Kolesnikov beat China’s Li Guangyuan who was a 53.70. The two tied for ninth at 53.84. Kolesnikov won’t swim in tomorrow’s final but his 53.38 would have been seventh in the semi-finals. Kolesnikov is just 17 years old so he has another year to lower his world junior record.
Women’s 100 Breast (SF)
In what will be must-see television, Russia’s Yulia Efimova will be the top seed in the 100 breast at the FINA World Championships in Budapest in tomorrow’s final. Efimova got oh-so-close to Ruta Meilutyte’s world record of 1:04.35 with a 1:04.36. Efimova leads Olympic champion Lilly King, who was second at 1:04.53. The two will clash heads in a much anticipated rematch after last summer’s epic duel in Rio.
Don’t take your eyes off of world record holder Meilutyte who is third at 1:05.06. Meilutyte will not want to see her world record go down and she will be looking to do better than her disappointing swim in Rio last summer.
American Katie Meili (1:05.48), China’s Shi Jinglin (1:06.47), Spain’s Jessica Vall (1:06.62), Canada’s Kierra Smith (1:06.62) and Great Britain’s Sarah Vasey (1:06.81) will compete in tomorrow’s final.
Men’s 50 Fly
Great Britain got its second gold of the night with Ben Proud in the 50 butterfly A-final. Proud went 22.75 to win the gold medal in the 50 fly to just miss the championship record of 22.67 from Milorad Cavic set in 2009. Proud wins his first individual medal at either the Olympics or World Championships.
Brazil’s Nicholas Santos (22.79) and Ukraine’s Andrii Govorov (22.84) also picked up individual medals in the race. Those three out-swam American Caeleb Dressel (22.89) and Singapore’s Joseph Schooling (22.95) who placed fourth and fifth.
Brazil’s Henrique Martins (23.14), Ukraine’s Andrii Khloptsov (23.31) and American Tim Phillips (23.38) also swam in the A-final.
Proud’s swim is the first time anyone from Great Britain has medaled in the event since 2001 when Mark Foster was third.
Women’s 100 Back (SF)
It seems to be the theme of the night. World records keep getting rattled but not broken. Kylie Masse got oh-so-close to the 100 back record with a 58.18. She just missed Gemma Spofforth’s record of 58.12 from 2009. Masse broke her Canadian record from earlier this year that was a 58.21.
Masse leads a quality final that includes the defending world champion Emily Seebohm of Australia. Seebohm (58.85), American Kathleen Baker (59.03), American Olivia Smoliga (59.07), Russian Anastasia Fesikova (59.26), Czech Simona Baumrtova (59.65), Russian Daria Ustinova (59.74) and Kathleen Dawson (59.82) will also swim in the A-final tomorrow.
Men’s 200 Free (SF)
The British swimmers keep churning out great swims on night two of the World Championships. James Guy and Duncan Scott lead a very fast 200 free field into tomorrow with Scott leading the way at 1:45.16. Guy was second at 1:45.18. The two Brits lead reigning Olympic champ Sun Yang of China (1:45.24) and Townley Haas of the US (1:45.43).
It is a very fast 200 free final as eighth place was 1:46.28, with seven of the finalists turning in 1:45’s in the semi’s. Russians Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:45.47) and Mikhail Dovgalyuk (1:45.74) will join Hungarian Dominik Kozma (1:45.87) and Korean Park Tae Hwan (1:46.28) in the final tomorrow.
Guy will be looking to defend his world title from 2015 as Sun will be looking to back up his Olympic gold from last summer, as well as win his second gold of the meet after winning the 400 on Sunday night.
Women’s 200 IM
In front of a rowdy Hungarian crowd, Katinka Hosszu delivered a dominating performance in the 200 IM for her third straight world title in the event. Hosszu gave her home fans something to cheer about as she went 2:07.00 to win the world title ahead of Japan’s Yui Ohashi (2:07.91). Hosszu led from start to finish in the race ahead of Ohashi.
American Madisyn Cox had a late charge over the second half to snag the bronze medal with a 2:09.71. Cox stated in her NBC interview after the race that she channeled the Hungarian cheers for herself and pretended they were cheering for her, spurring her onto the bronze medal.
American Melanie Margalis (2:09.82), Japan’s Runa Imai (2:09.99), South Korea’s Kim Seoyeong (2:10.40) and Great Britain’s Siobhan O’Connor (2:10.41) also competed in the A-final.
The big question in the race was Canadian Sydney Pickrem, who was a medal favorite, getting out of the pool after the 50. Swimming World will update if we find more information.
This is Hosszu’s third straight World Title in the 200 IM and her fourth medal in the event in the World Championships. Her 2017 win adds on to her wins in 2013 and 2015 as well as her bronze in 2009.
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