China’s Wang Siqi downed Australia’s Tamsin Cook in a close contest for the women’s 200-meter fly at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships.
Although the times weren’t near the fastest by teenagers in the world this year led by Zhang Yufei’s 2:06.51 and Katie McLaughlin’s 2:06.95 from the World Championships, Wang still managed to grab the junior title with a time of 2:08.24.
Cook, meanwhile, built on her strong relay swim from night one with a 2:08.86 to take silver in the finale.
USA’s Hannah Kukurugya touched out teammate Cassidy Bayer, 2:10.08 to 2:10.12, for bronze. Bayer had entered the meet with the fastest time of those in the meet with a 2:08.03 from U.S. Nationals in San Antonio. But, she was unable to replicate that time during finals.
Japan’s Haruno Ito (2:11.07), Spain’s Carmen Balbuena (2:11.31), Great Britain’s Holly Hibbott (2:11.63) and Hungary’s Boglarka Bonecz (2:12.11) closed out the rest of the finale.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Men’s 100 back finals
- Women’s 200 fly finals
- Men’s 200 free finals
- Women’s 50 breast finals
- Men’s 100 fly semis
- Women’s 100 free semis
- Men’s 100 breast finals
- Women’s 100 back finals
- Men’s 200 IM finals
- Women’s 800 free finals
- Mixed 400 medley relay finals
