HPC-Ontario’s Penny Oleksiak held off PRVT’s Farida Osman to take the Knoxville 50 fly title, with Cardinal’s Kelsi Dahlia taking third in 26.20. Oleksiak finished second in the 100 fly earlier in the meet and is looking for a bounce-back 2019 after a disappointing year in 2018.
Osman may well have touched first if not for a poor start. She failed to react off the starter’s beep with the rest of the field after the women were held in set position longer than usual. Well behind the field at the start, Osman did well simply to come back and earn a second-place finish.
Team Elite’s Kendyl Stewart (26.43) and Athens Bulldog’s Natalie Hinds (26.69) finished fourth and fifth, respectively, while Cal’s Dana Vollmer, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 100 fly, took sixth in 26.71.
Rounding out the final were HPC-Victoria teammates Haley Black (26.87) and Jade Hannah (27.09).
Event 21 Women 50 LC Meter Butterfly
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World: W 24.43 7/5/2014 Sarah Sjostrom, SWE
American: A 25.48 7/29/2017 Kelsi Dahlia (Worrell), USA
U.S. Open: O 25.48 8/26/2017 Rikako Ikee, JPN
Jr World: J 25.46 8/26/2017 Rikako Ikee, JPN
Pro Swim: P 25.74 4/14/2018 Kelsi Dahlia, Cardinal Aquatic
Name Age Team Prelims Finals FINA
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=== A - Final ===
1 Penny Oleksiak 18 Hpc-Ontario 26.40 26.00 829
r:+0.71
2 Farida Osman 23 Una Prvt/PRVT 26.22 26.09 821
r:+0.99
3 Kelsi Dahlia 24 Cardinal Aquatic 26.54 26.20 810
r:+0.72
4 Kendyl Stewart 24 Team Elite 27.13 26.43 789
r:+0.81
5 Natalie Hinds 25 Athens Bulldog S 26.88 26.69 766
r:+0.75
6 Dana Vollmer 31 California Aquat 26.74 26.71 765
r:+0.74
7 Haley Black 22 Hpc Vancouver 27.37 26.87 751
r:+0.86
8 Jade Hannah 16 Hpcentervictoria 27.39 27.09 733
r:+0.70
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