Three Top Seeds, Two Meet Marks for Katinka Hosszu at World Short Course Championships Prelims – Day 1

DOHA – The Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu certainly put on a show during day one prelims of the FINA World Short Course Championships. She collected three top seeds for the night along with two meet marks, while Swimming World’s World Swimmer of the Year Kosuke Hagino took down an Asian record.

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Men’s 200 free
Women’s 50 breast
Men’s 100 back
Women’s 200 fly
Men’s 100 breast
Women’s 100 back
Men’s 100 fly
Women’s 400 IM
Men’s 400 free relay
Women’s 400 free relay

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Men’s 200 free

The men’s 200 free proved to be lightning fast as superstar Ryan Lochte nearly misjudged prelims and finished eighth to just make the finale.

Hungary’s Dominik Kozma came sprinting home down the stretch to catch Russia’s Danila Izotov for the top seed, 1:42.35 to 1:42.45. Meanwhile, Venezuela’s Cristian Quintero had put up a strong time out of heat 6 with a 1:42.40.

Izotov is the world leader with a 1:41.48 from the Russian Championships, while Kozma moved up to fourth in the world with his swim. Quintero now stands fifth as well with a strong morning swim.

Serbia’s Velimir Stjepanovic took fourth in 1:42.66 to better his eighth-ranked season best of 1:42.88 from the Dubai stop of the FINA World Cup.

Australia’s Daniel Smith (1:42.67), South Africa’s Chad le Clos (1:42.84), Hungary’s Peter Bernek (1:42.85) and Lochte (1:42.97) all broke 1:43 to make the finale.

For our U.S. based readers, Conor Dwyer missed finals with a 14th-place 1:43.38.

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Women’s 50 breast

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This morning proved to be pretty swift in the sprint breast with a handful of 29s going up on the board. Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, who leads the world with a 29.00 from the Singapore stop of the FINA World Cup this year, topped qualifiers in 29.48.

The Netherlands’ Moniek Nijhuis (29.62), Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte (29.72) and Australia’s Leiston Pickett (29.96) rounded out the top four under 30 seconds.

Australia’s Sally Hunter (30.06), Belgium’s Fanny Lecluyse (30.13), USA’s Emma Reaney (30.20) and Russia’s Valentina Artemeva (30.22) qualified fifth through eighth.

Sweden’s Jennie Johansson (30.43), Finland’s Jenna Laukkanen (30.54), Great Britain’s Sophie Taylor (30.57), Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen (30.64), China’s Suo Ran (30.66), Israel’s Amit Ivry (30.68), Canada’s Tera Van Beilen (30.71) and Japan’s Suzuki Satomi (30.72) also made semifinals.

Men’s 100 back

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USA’s Matt Grevers powered his way to a 50.19 to lead prelims, moving him up to fifth in the world rankings. Grevers is looking to defend his title in this event. He’s not far off Peter Marshall’s ratified American record of 49.64 from 2008 in Berlin.

Nick Thoman owns the fastest legal American swim in the event with a 48.94 relay leadoff in 2009, but USA Swimming decided that American records set in techsuits after Oct. 1, 2009 – when USA Swimming implemented the techsuit ban domestically – would not be ratified. Even for legal swims in international meets.

Australia’s Mitch Larkin (50.54), Israel’s David Gamburg (50.64), France’s Ben Stasiulis (50.66), Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (50.72), Germany’s Christian Diener (50.75), USA’s Eugene Godsoe (50.79), Great Britain’s Chris Walker-Hebborn (50.81), Russia’s Stanislav Donets (50.99) and Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki (50.99) all broke 51 seconds to make semis as well.

Brazil’s Guilherme Guido (51.05), Japan’s Yuki Shirai (51.06), Norway’s Lavrans Solli (51.33), Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys (51.35), Israel’s Guy Barnea (51.35) and Canada’s Russell Wood (51.36) all made the semis as well.

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Women’s 200 fly

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Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu charged her way to the top of the world rankings again in the 200 fly. She already owned the top time with a 2:02.99 from the Moscow stop of the FINA World Cup. This morning, she popped a sterling 2:02.42, just off her Hungarian record of 2:02.20 from the 2012 World Championships in Istanbul.

Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia raced her way to second tonight with a 2:03.61, just off her second-ranked 2:03.39 from here in Doha during the FINA World Cup.

China’s Zhang Yufei moved up to sixth in the world with a third-ranked 2:04.71, while Australia’s Brianna Throssell claimed fourth in prelims with a 2:05.03.

Germany’s Franziska Hentke (2:05.17), USA’s Cammile Adams (2:05.35), Japan’s Miyu Nakano (2:05.44) and Italy’s Alessia Polieri (2:05.68) all cleared 2:06 to make the finale.

USA’s Katherine Mills (2:06.01) and world-record holder Liu Zige of China (2:06.07) both missed finals.

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Men’s 100 breast

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Commonwealth Games champion Adam Peaty blasted the morning prelims with a 57.02 to move to third in the world. Only Felipe Silva (56.25) and Daniel Gyurta (56.87) have been faster this year.

Silva, meanwhile, cruised into second this morning with a 57.13, while Russia’s Kirill Prigoda placed third in 57.53 to clear his ninth-ranked season best of 57.65.

France’s Giacomo Perez-Dortona and USA’s Cody Miller tied for fourth with 57.57s, while USA’s Brad Craig took sixth in 57.64. Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic (57.65) and Russia’s Oleg Kostin (57.74) picked up seventh and eighth.

Slovakia’s Tomas Klobucnik (57.75), Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli (57.86), Germany’s Marco Koch (57.88) and Sweden’s Johannes Skagius (57.96) also made semis, while world-record holder Cameron van der Burgh put up an easy speed 57.97 to grab the 13th seed through to semis.

Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki (58.14), New Zealand’s Glenn Snyders (58.23) and Australia’s Jake Packard (58.25) also will swim in semis.

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Women’s 100 back

Gian Mattia D'Alberto / lapresse 15-06-2014 Roma sport nuoto trofeo Settecolli nella foto: Katinka Hosszu HUN Gian Mattia D'Alberto / lapresse 15-06-2014 Rome in the photo: Katinka Hosszu HUN

Photo Courtesy: Gian Mattia Dalberto/Lapresse

Katinka Hosszu continued her Iron Lady ways, picking up a second top seed as she crushed Natalie Coughlin’s meet record in the women’s 100-meter back with a 55.70.

That swim eclipsed Coughlin’s 2010 time of 56.08 from the Dubai edition of the World Short Course Championships, and is just off Hosszu’s season-best of 55.34 from the Hong Kong stop of the FINA World Cup. Look for Hosszu to challenge Shiho Sakai’s world record of 55.23 by the time this meet is over.

Australia’s Emily Seebohm chased down second in 56.59, off her second-ranked time of 55.47 from the Australian Championships this year.

Denmark’s Mie Nielsen (57.05), Ukraine’s Daryna Zevina (57.07) and USA’s Kathleen Baker (57.11) all put up 57-lows to take third through fifth.

Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros (57.36), Australia’s Madi Wilson (57.48), Czech Republic’s Simona Baumrtova (57.61), Japan’s Sayaka Akase (57.67) and Sweden’s Michelle Coleman (57.70) rounded out the top 10.

USA’s Amy Bilquist (57.82), Great Britain’s Georgia Davies (57.90), Spain’s Duane Da Rocha Marce (58.15), Canada’s Hilary Caldwell (58.15), Russia’s Daria K Ustinova (58.16) and Italy’s Arianna Barbieri (58.26) all made the semis as well.

World record holder Sakai, however, did not with an 18th-place 58.46.

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Men’s 100 fly

Photo Courtesy: Joao Marc Bosch

Swimming World’s World Swimmer of the Year Kosuke Hagino downed the Asian and Japanese record in the 100 fly with a 49.83 this morning.

That performance eclipsed the previous mark of 49.90 set by Ryo Takayasu of Japan back in 2009. It also vaulted Hagino up to fourth in the world this year behind Chad le Clos (48.56), Tom Shields (49.00) and Steffen Deibler (49.33).

Meanwhile, South Africa’s Chad le Clos (50.35) and USA’s Ryan Lochte (50.38) powered their way to second and third this morning.

Australia’s Tommaso D’Orsogna (50.39), USA’s Tom Shields (50.43), Russia’s Evgeny Korotyshkin (50.54), Australia’s David Morgan (50.61) and Venezuela’s Albert Subirats (50.62) also made the top eight.

Germany’s Steffen Deibler (50.67), Great Britain’s Adam Barrett (50.72), Brazil’s Marcos Macedo (50.76), Poland’s Pawel Korzeniowski (50.79), Brazil’s Nicholas Santos (50.86), France’s Mehdy Metella (50.93), Belarus’ Yauhen Tsurkin (50.95) and China’s Zhang Qibin (51.00) will also compete in the semifinals.

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Women’s 400 IM

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The Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu followed through on her name, claiming her third top seed of the night with a second meet record.

Hosszu blasted her way to a sizzling 4:21.05 this morning. That’s the third fastest time all time, behind her pair of 4:20s with a world record 4:20.83 from Doha in August and a 4:20.85 from the Berlin stop of the 2013 FINA World Cup.

Her time today did, however, smash Hannah Miley’s meet record of 4:23.14 from the 2012 edition of this meet.

Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia could be Hosszu’s lone challenger tonight after qualifying in 4:26.16. She has a 4:21.23 to her name from the 2013 European Short Course Championships, and could turn things up a notch tonight.

Miley (4:27.45), USA’s Caitlin Leverenz (4:28.43), USA’s Elizabeth Beisel (4:28.75), Czech Republic’s Barbora Zavadova (4:29.95), Japan’s Miho Takahashi (4:30.20) and Japan’s Sakiko Shimizu (4:31.20) will also compete in the finale.

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Men’s 400 free relay

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Italy’s Luca Dotto (47.32), Luca Leonardi (46.98), Marco Belotti (47.35) and Marco Orsi (46.00) raced their way to a 3:07.65 to lead the way this morning in qualifying.

Brazil’s Henrique De Souza (48.06), Cesar Cielo (45.53), Alan Vitoria (46.78) and Henrique Rodrigues (47.47) picked up second in 3:07.84, while France’s Clement Mignon (46.99), Fabien Gilot (46.80), Florent Manaudou (46.74) and Mehdy Metella (47.41) placed third in 3:07.94.

Team USA’s Darian Townsend (47.83), Matt Grevers (46.57), Tom Shields (46.67) and Jimmy Feigen (46.98) snared fourth in 3:08.05.

That’s a significant swim for Townsend as the South African Olympian has now competed for the Stars and Stripes in international competition after changing his citizenship this past summer.

Russia (3:08.15), Australia (3:08.28), Japan (3:09.11) and Belgium (3:09.43) made the finale, while Germany (3:09.89) just missed.

Women’s 800 free relay

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The Netherlands’ Inge Dekker (1:54.80), Esmee Vermeulen (1:55.56), Sharon van Rouwendaal (1:54.14) and Femke Heemskerk (1:54.70) took the top seed with a 7:39.20 and could challenge China’s world record of 7:35.94 tonight.

Sweden’s Louise Hansson (1:56.18), Michelle Coleman (1:54.98), Ida Marko-Varga (1:58.76) and Sarah Sjostrom (1:53.95) powered their way to second in 7:43.87, while China’s Qiu Yuhan (1:53.45), Cao Yue (1:57.15), Guo Junjun (1:57.76) and Shen Duo (1:56.06) placed third in 7:44.42.

Team USA’s Shannon Vreeland (1:54.78), Emily Allen (1:58.30), Katie Drabot (1:55.49) and Madisyn Cox (1:56.24) qualified fourth in 7:44.81.

Australia (7:45.18), Russia (7:45.51), Japan (7:45.97) and Hungary (7:46.21) also grabbed spots in the finale.

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