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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 24.
USA’s Maya DiRado knocked off Australia’s Alicia Coutts, 2:09.93 to 2:10.25, for the title this evening. That swim tied Emily Seebohm’s meet record from 2010 and moved DiRado up to fourth in the world this year. Only Katinka Hosszu (2:08.11), Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (2:08.21) and Coutts (2:08.89) have been faster. USA’s Caitlin Leverenz captured bronze with a 2:10.67, equaling her bronze from 2010 but with a faster time (2:11.21).
Japan’s Kanako Watanabe (2:11.16), Japan’s Rika Omoyo (2:12.39), China’s Zhou Min (2:12.41), Australia’s Emily Seebohm (2:13.25) and Canada’s Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson (2:13.31) also put up times in the championship heat.
Seebohm, the defending champion, just never got on track in the IM this week after putting up some amazing times in the backstroke.
A Final Results
1 DIRADO, MAYA 21 UNITED STATES 2:11.16 2:09.93P 915
r:+0.74 28.76 1:01.07 (32.31)
1:39.36 (38.29) 2:09.93 (30.57)
2 COUTTS, ALICIA 26 AUSTRALIA 2:11.95 2:10.25 908
r:+0.71 27.48 1:00.64 (33.16)
1:39.10 (38.46) 2:10.25 (31.15)
3 LEVERENZ, CAITL 23 UNITED STATES 2:11.23 2:10.67 899
r:+0.67 27.95 1:01.98 (34.03)
1:39.08 (37.10) 2:10.67 (31.59)
4 WATANABE, KANAK 17 JAPAN 2:11.74 2:11.16 889
r:+0.70 28.68 1:03.07 (34.39)
1:40.21 (37.14) 2:11.16 (30.95)
5 OMOTO, RIKA 17 JAPAN 2:12.53 2:12.39 865
r:+0.63 28.43 1:02.85 (34.42)
1:40.95 (38.10) 2:12.39 (31.44)
6 ZHOU, MIN 16 CHINA 2:12.96 2:12.41 864
r:+0.70 28.90 1:01.73 (32.83)
1:41.41 (39.68) 2:12.41 (31.00)
7 SEEBOHM, EMILY 22 AUSTRALIA 2:13.58 2:13.25 848
r:+0.66 28.35 1:01.94 (33.59)
1:41.47 (39.53) 2:13.25 (31.78)
8 SELTENREICH-HOD 19 CANADA 2:14.73 2:13.31 847
r:+0.73 29.05 1:03.11 (34.06)
1:40.67 (37.56) 2:13.31 (32.64)
USA’s Melanie Margalis had to follow Katie Ledecky’s epic world record swim, and she did a good job of it with a 2:11.42 to win the B final. Japan’s Miho Teramura finished second in 2:12.75 with China’s Zhang Sishi earning third in 2:12.92.
Australia’s Keryn McMaster (2:14.53), Canada’s Sydney Pickrem (2:15.42), Canada’s Marni Oldershaw (2:15.90), China’s Zhang Jiaqi (2:19.14) and South Africa’s Beatrix Malan (2:24.03) also competed.
B Final Results
1 MARGALIS, MELANIE 22 UNITED STATES 2:12.25 2:11.42
r:+0.73 28.75 1:02.15 (33.40)
1:40.45 (38.30) 2:11.42 (30.97)
2 TERAMURA, MIHO 19 JAPAN 2:13.18 2:12.75
r:+0.70 28.45 1:03.99 (35.54)
1:41.15 (37.16) 2:12.75 (31.60)
3 ZHANG, SISHI 20 CHINA 2:15.32 2:12.92
r:+0.63 28.60 1:03.00 (34.40)
1:42.13 (39.13) 2:12.92 (30.79)
4 MCMASTER, KERYN 20 AUSTRALIA 2:14.30 2:14.53
r:+0.66 29.07 1:03.53 (34.46)
1:42.82 (39.29) 2:14.53 (31.71)
5 PICKREM, SYDNEY 16 CANADA 2:15.88 2:15.42
r:+0.74 29.85 1:03.69 (33.84)
1:43.39 (39.70) 2:15.42 (32.03)
6 OLDERSHAW, MARNI 20 CANADA 2:15.87 2:15.90
r:+0.74 29.87 1:05.31 (35.44)
1:43.34 (38.03) 2:15.90 (32.56)
7 ZHANG, JIAQI 18 CHINA 2:17.89 2:19.14
r:+0.71 29.86 1:05.51 (35.65)
1:46.68 (41.17) 2:19.14 (32.46)
8 MALAN, BEATRIX 18 SOUTH AFRICA 2:24.50 2:24.03
r:+0.78 30.95 1:06.63 (35.68)
1:49.68 (43.05) 2:24.03 (34.35)
