2015 FINA World Junior Championships: Day One Prelims Live Recap

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Event Schedule:

  • Men’s 400-meter Free
  • Women’s 50-meter Breast
  • Men’s 100-meter Back
  • Women’s 400-meter Individual Medley
  • Men’s 100-meter Breast
  • Women’s 100-meter Back
  • Men’s 4×100-meter Free Relay
  • Women’s 4×200-meter Free Relay

MEN’S 400 FREE

The top four finishers for tonight’s 400-meter free all finished within .83 seconds of one another, leaving the field wide open for who will claim the title. Qui Ziao of China leads the field going into tonight’s finals with a qualifying time of 3:51.10. Teammate Yang Jintong finished close behind with a 3:51.27 to claim the second-place seed.

Grant Shoults of the USA finished third overall with a time of 3:51.48.

Australia’s Joshua Parish claimed the fourth-place seed with a time of 3:51.93. All four men are less than five seconds off of the Championship Record of 3:47.12 set by Mack Horton in 2013.

Ricardo Vargas of Mexico turned in a 3:53.53 in heat six to top Matthew Hirschberger of the USA’s time of 3:53.59 from heat seven.

Great Britain’s Cameron Kurle finished seventh overall with a time of 3:54.10, while Venezuela’s Rafael Davila rounds out the top eight with a 3:54.39.

WOMEN’S 50 BREAST

Turkey’s Viktoria Zeynep Gunes leads the competition in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke going into tonight’s semi-finals. Gunes posted a time of 30.73 to make her the only competitor to go under the 31-second mark in prelims.

Great Britain’s Katie Matts and Sweden’s Sophie Hansson are tied for second going into tonight’s semi-finals after both posted a 31.48.

Nikol Popov of the USA claimed the third-place seed with a 31.69, while Japan’s Yukino Miyasaka grabbed a close fifth with a 31.76.

Kennedy Lohman of the USA will join teammate Popov after posting a 32.00. Australia’s Ella Bond grabbed seventh with a 32.15, while Russia’s Mariia Astashkina and Hungary’s Szonja Szokol tied for eighth with a 32.40.

Japan’s Runa Imai (32.42), Slovenia’s Tina Celik (32.51), Germany’s Laura Kelsch (32.53), Russia’s Daria Chikunova (32.56), Italy’s Giulia Verona (32.66), Slovakia’s Andrea Podmanikova (32.66), and Australia’s Calypso Sheridan (32.73) round out the top sixteen.

MEN’S 100 BACK

The men’s 100-meter back has already proved to be an exciting race with the Championship Record being broken twice during prelims. Hugo Gonzalez of Spain originally broke the record of 54.87 set by Christou Apostolos in 2013 when he turned in 54.80 in heat five. Not two heats later Michael Taylor of the USA clocked a 54.74 to claim the record for himself and earn the top seed going into tonight’s semi-finals.

Michael Andrew of the USA posted a 54.90 to earn himself a spot in the middle of the pool at third.

Canada’s Markus Thormeyer and Romania’s Robert Glinta turned in close times, finishing only .04 seconds apart in heat five. Thormeyer managed to get his hand to the wall first with a final time of 55.12 over Glinta’s 55.16.

Clyde Lewis of Australia and Abdalla Youssef of Egypt also posted close times from heat six finishing only .02 seconds apart. Lewis clocked a 55.36, while Youssef finished with a 55.38.

Great Britain’s Luke Greenback rounds out the top eight with a 55.54.

Canada’s Javier Acevedo (55.68), New Zealand’s Willrich Coetzee (55.84), Greece’s Nikolaos Sofianidis (55.92), Brazil’s Guilherme Basseto (55.93), Ireland’s Conor Ferguson (55.94), Portugal’s Gabriel Lopes (56.05), Russia’s Roman Larin (56.07), and the Czech Republic’s Tomas Franta (56.13) finish up the qualifiers for tonight’s semi-finals.

WOMEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

Georgia Coates of Great Britain leads the women going into tonight’s finals of the 400-meter IM with a time of 4:42.19, only 2.17 seconds off the meet record of 4:40.02 set by Ella Eastin in 2013.

Spain’s Africa Zamorano claimed the second-place seed going into tonight’s finals with a time of 4:43.21. Brooke Forde of the USA was close behind in Zamorano in heat five with a finishing time of 4:43.96. Both Zamorano and Coates’ times earned them spots in the Top 25 World Rankings for 18 & unders.

Great Britain’s Rosie Rudin posted a 4:44.14 from heat five to claim the fourth-place seed for tonight’s finals, while Japan’s Hiroko Makino is seeded a close fifth with a time of 4:44.58.

Italy’s Ilaria Cusinato grabbed sixth from heat five with a time of 4:46.10. Serbia’s Anja Crevar took seventh overall with a 4:46.23, while Savanna Faulconer of the USA rounded out the top eight with a 4:47.01.

MEN’S 100 BREAST

Anton Chupkov of Russia succeeded in lowering his own World Junior record and setting a new Championship Record in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke during prelims after posting a time of 1:00.12 This replaces his World Junior record of 1:00.84 from 2014, as well as, Ilya Khomenko’s meet record of 1:00.88 from 2013.

Reece Whitley of the USA claimed the second-place seed with a time of 1:01.48, adding slightly to his time of 1:01.06 that he posted earlier this summer at the US National Championships. Teammate Michael Andrew joins him at third with a qualifying time of 1:01.54.

Australia’s Matthew Wilson was a close fourth, turning in a time of 1:01.55 from heat seven.

Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi finished fifth overall in prelims with a qualifying time of 1:01.90, making him the last qualifier under the 1:02 mark.

Charlie Attwood of Great Britain turned in a 1:02.06 to earn the sixth-place seed, while Australia’s Grayson Bell finished seventh overall with a time of 1:02.33. Lithuania’s Andrius Sidlauskas joins them in the top eight with a time of 1:02.40.

Japan’s Ippei Miyamoto (1:02.77), China’s Shen Hao (1:02.92), Russia’s Egor Suchkov (1:03.00), China’s Liu Yunsong (1:03.03), Belgium’s Basten Caerts (1:03.05), Poland’s Jacek Arentewicz (1:03.10), Austria’s Christopher Rothbauer (1:03.30), and Canada’s Warren Mayer (1:03.55) round out the top sixteen finishers.

WOMEN’S 100 BACK

Minna Atherton of Australia became the fourth person during prelims of day one to set a new meet record, claiming the 100-meter back with a time of 59.83. Atherton’s time replaces Daryna Zevina’s time of 1:00.59 from 2011 and also lowers Daria Ustinov’s World Junior record of 1:00.25 from 2014.

Claire Adams of the USA grabbed the second-place seed with a time of 1:00.46, adding to her time of 59.58 from US National Championships earlier this summer in San Antonio.

Canada’s Danielle Hanus claimed the third-place seed with a time of 1:00.80, improving upon her time of 1:01.13 from the 2015 Canadian Swimming Trials.

New Zealand teammates Gabrielle Fa’Amausili and Bobbi Gichard grabbed fourth and fifth respectively. Fa’Amausili turned in a 1:00.86, while Gichard posted a time of 1:01.12.

Taylor Ruck of Canada finished sixth in prelims with a time of 1:01.36, adding slightly to her time of 1:01.06 from the 2015 Canadian Swimming Trials.

Russia’s Irina Prikhodko grabbed the seventh-place seed with a 1:01.50, while Grace Ariola of the USA turned in a time of 1:01.73 for eighth.

The Czech Republic’s Tereza Grusova (1:01.87), Russia’s Mariia Kameneva (1:01.91), Germany’s Laura Riedemann (1:01.94), Australia’s Lucy Elizabeth McJannett (1:02.01), Japan’s Nasumi Sakai (1:02.29), Ukraine’s Maryna Kolesnykova (1:02.59), South Africa’s Mariella Venter (1:02.84), and Kazakhstan’s Yekaterina Dymchenko (1:03.02) complete the top sixteen qualifiers.

MEN’S 400 FREE RELAY

The United States relay team of Ryan Hoffer, Daniel Krueger, Michael Jensen and Maxime Rooney topped the competition in prelims of the men’s 400-meter freestyle relay finishing with a time of 3:17.84. This time puts them only .88 seconds off the meet and World Junior record of 3:16.96 set in 2013 by Australia.

Italy’s relay team of Ivano Veraname, Giovanni Izzo, Alessandro Bori and Alessandro Mires grabbed the second-place seed for tonight’s finals with a time of 3:19.35.

The relay team of Jack Cartwright, Vincent Dai, Brayden McCarthy and Kyle Chalmers from Australia rounded out the top three with a time of 3:20.10.

Brazil’s relay consisting of Pedro Spajari, Victor Furtado, Victor Santos and Felipe Souza finished fourth overall with a qualifying time of 3:20.72, while Canada’s Markus Thormeyer, Stephen Calkins, Carson Olafson and Javier Acevedo were a close fifth with a time of 3:20.98.

Russia claimed the sixth-place seed with a time of 3:21.48, while Egypt (3:23.84) and Venezuela (3:24.03) rounded out the top eight.

WOMEN’S 800 FREE RELAY

The United States relay team of Samantha Shelton, Sierra Schmidt, Tatum Wade and Lauren Case topped the competition in prelims of the women’s 800-meter free relay with a time of 8:01.43, putting them close to the meet and world junior record of 7:59.42 set by the USA in 2013.

Canada’s team of Penny Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith, Meryn McCann and Mary-Sophie Harvey finished second with a time of 8:04.12, while Russia’s relay consisting of Valeriia Salamatina, Daria Ustinova, Irina Krivonogova and Anastasiia Kirpichnikova took third overall with a time of 8:05.56.

Australia’s Gemma Cooney, Ariarne Titmus, Mikayla Messer and Tamsin Cook claimed fourth with a qualifying time of 8:07.14, while Spain’s foursome of Elisa Sanchez, Laura Rodriguez, Marta Cano and Africa Zamorano turned in a time of 8:08.02 to qualify fifth.

Italy finished sixth overall with a time of 8:08.13, while Japan (8:09.36) and China (8:10.04) finished seventh and eighth respectively.

2015 FINA Wold Junior Championships, Day One Prelims – Results

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Jose Neumann
8 years ago

Christian Mayer

Nazrin Nazrin
8 years ago

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Kyle Cowan
8 years ago

Go Nikol Popov! #GoCanyons Canyons Aquatic Club

Annie Samanta Medina Angulo

vuena salida

Ruben Lozzi
8 years ago

Tremendous individual efforts highlighted Day 4 in Singapore, at the 5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships as versatility was the ruling word this evening. We could witness a couple of rare pairings of medal winning performances from outstanding young talents – and as a bonus, 5 more World Junior Records.

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