Emily Seebohm Challenges Meet Record in 50 Back Semis at Worlds

DOHA – Australia’s Emily Seebohm challenged the meet record in the women’s 50 back semis at the FINA World Short Course Championships.

Seebohm turned in a swift time of 25.87. That performance undercut the old meet record of 25.95 set by Zhao Jing at the 2012 Istanbul edition of this meet.

Etiene Medeiros of Brazil, however, had already downed that mark as the relay leadoff of Brazil’s winning mixed 200 medley relay. She powered her way to a 25.83 in that swim.

Both Seebohm and Medeiros are now just outside Sanja Jovanovic’s 2009 world record of 25.70 swum for Croatia.

Medeiros picked up the second seed with a time of 25.99, while Ukraine’s Daryna Zevina earned third in 26.20.

USA’s Felicia Lee (26.22), Great Britain’s Georgia Davies (26.35), Poland’s Aleksandra Urbanczyk (26.36), Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (26.38) and Czech Republic’s Simona Baumrtova (26.44) also made finals.

Hosszu, already a world-record setter in the 100 and 200 back, is looking for a backstroke sweep.

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