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After a disappointing 200 breast swim on Thursday night in Irvine, Lilly King came back with a solid 50 breast heat swim at 30.16. The world record holder in the 50 breast is just ahead of Tennessee’s Molly Hannis (30.21) and Big Ten rival Lindsey Kozelsky (30.55) of Minnesota.
The winner of the 50 stroke events at finals will automatically qualify to swim the event at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
Breeja Larson (30.79), Jorie Caneta (30.81), Emily Weiss (30.87), Katie Meili (30.94) and Bethany Galat (30.99) also qualified for the A-Final tonight.
King and Hannis are already on top of the world rankings in 2018. Those two along with Yulia Efimova are the only three women to break 30 seconds this year. Kozelsky moved to seventh in the world rankings with her time.
2018 World Rankings:
- Lilly King, USA, 29.62
- Molly Hannis, USA, 29.71
- Yulia Efimova, RUS, 29.84
- Breeja Larson, USA, 30.42
- Alia Atkinson, JAM, 30.53
- Natalia Ivaneeva, RUS, 30.54
- Lindsey Kozelsky, USA, 30.55
- Sarah Vasey, GBR, 30.60
- Imogen Clark, GBR, 30.60
- Leiston Pickett, AUS, 30.60
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I think Lilly can break 30 seconds tonight with a 29.9! Go Lilly you can do it.
She’s gone 29.6 already this year so there’s a good chance
Awesome. Maybe she will beat her best by going 28.9 for once.
That would be awesome
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Thanks for your friendly response. I hope my boss doesn’t see this comment because I don’t want to lose my job of doing four things at once. Thanks for your concern. It has been updated.
Looking forward to see her in the final tonight!