Alicia Coutts Overhauls China’s Lu Ying for 100 Fly Win (Pan Pacific Championships Results)

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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 23.

It was certainly a close call as Alicia Coutts returned the 100 fly title back to the Australians for the fourth time, joining Susie O’Neill and Jessicah Schipper as Aussie victors in the event. Coutts raced her way to a 57.64 to 57.76 win against China’s Lu Ying in the finale. Coutts has been faster this year with a 57.60 to rank eighth in the world, while Lu moved up to 12th in the event with her swim.

USA’s Kendyl Stewart raced her way onto the podium, edging Australia’s Emma McKeon, 57.82 to 57.85, for the bronze medal. That’s a season best for Stewart, lower than her 57.98 from Nationals, while McKeon came up short of her 57.66 from the Commonwealth Games.

Canada’s Katerine Savard (57.95), USA’s Claire Donahue (58.31), Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros (58.67) and Canada’s Audrey Lacroix (58.82) also vied for the title in the finale.

A Final Results

  1 COUTTS, ALICIA   26 AUSTRALIA           57.84      57.64   916  
    r:+0.73  27.40        57.64 (30.24)
  2 LU, YING         25 CHINA               58.74      57.76   910  
    r:+0.68  27.01        57.76 (30.75)
  3 STEWART, KENDYL  20 UNITED STATES       58.47      57.82   907  
    r:+0.80  27.02        57.82 (30.80)
  4 MCKEON, EMMA     20 AUSTRALIA           58.29      57.85   906  
    r:+0.73  26.98        57.85 (30.87)
  5 SAVARD, KATERIN  21 CANADA              59.15      57.95   901  
    r:+0.61  26.90        57.95 (31.05)
  6 DONOHUE, CLAIRE  25 UNITED STATES       58.41      58.31   884  
    r:+0.65  27.09        58.31 (31.22)
  7 MEDEIROS, ETIEN  23 BRAZIL              59.29      58.67   868  
    r:+0.65  27.39        58.67 (31.28)
  8 LACROIX, AUDREY  30 CANADA              59.40      58.82   862  
    r:+0.67  27.42        58.82 (31.40)

It wasn’t the same speed as her 16th-ranked 58.14 from U.S. Nationals, but USA’s Felicia Lee still managed to trump the rest of the consolation heat by a pretty wide margin with a 58.37.

Australia’s Madeline Groves took second in 58.88, while Japan’s Natsumi Hoshi claimed third in 59.20.

Brazil’s Daynara de Paula (59.66), Japan’s Miki Uchida (59.68), Japan’s Miyu Nakano (59.75), New Zealand’s Samantha Lee (1:00.44) and South Africa’s Vanessa Mohr (1:01.9) put up the rest of the B final swims.

B Final Results

  9 LEE, FELICIA     22 UNITED STATES       58.59      58.37   882  
    r:+0.67  27.47        58.37 (30.90)
 10 GROVES, MADELIN  19 AUSTRALIA           59.84      58.88   859  
    r:+0.75  27.42        58.88 (31.46)
 11 HOSHI, NATSUMI   24 JAPAN               59.81      59.20   845  
    r:+0.63  27.92        59.20 (31.28)
 12 DE PAULA, DAYNA  21 BRAZIL              59.62      59.66   826  
    r:+0.77  27.03        59.66 (32.63)
 13 UCHIDA, MIKI     19 JAPAN               59.86      59.68   825  
    r:+0.72  27.60        59.68 (32.08)
 14 NAKANO, MIYU     16 JAPAN             1:00.32      59.75   822  
    r:+0.70  27.92        59.75 (31.83)
 15 LEE, SAMANTHA    22 NEW ZEALAND       1:00.81    1:00.44   794  
    r:+0.77  28.18      1:00.44 (32.26)
 16 MOHR, VANESSA    19 SOUTH AFRICA      1:00.22    1:01.19   765  
    r:+0.68  28.47      1:01.19 (32.72)

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