Heat Sheets Now Available for Day 2 Prelims of FINA World Junior Championships

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Photo Courtesy: Singapore Swimming Federation

Heat sheets for day two prelims of the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships are now available! Prelims begin at 9 a.m. EST

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Schedule of Events:

Men’s 200 IM
Women’s 100 Free
Men’s 100 Fly
Women’s 200 Fly
Men’s 200 Free
Mixed 400 Medley Relay
Women’s 800 Free (slower heats)

Michael Andrew enters as the top seed in the men’s 200 IM with one of two sub-two minute seed times, while Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez enters with the other. There will be seven heats total.

A total of 11 heats will be swum for the women’s 100 free, headlined by Japan’s sprint star Rikako Ikee. She enters with a 53.83, while Great Britain’s Freya Anderson holds the second place seed time with a 53.91.

Butterfly ace and World Junior Record holder Kristof Milak will look to hold his top spot in the men’s 100 fly. He enters with a top seed time of 50.62 and as the only sub-51 second seed. There will be a total of eight heats in contention.

Japan’s Suzuka Hasegawa leads a slim five heats of the women’s 200 fly. Hasegawa, also the World Junior Record holder in this event, enters with a 2:06.29, more than two seconds ahead of the competition.

The nine heats of the men’s 200 free will be headlined by Hungary’s Nandor Nemeth, who anchored Hungary to a gold medal finish in the men’s 400 free relay on night one. Nemeth enters with a time of 1:47.14, almost one full second ahead of the competition.

The session will conclude with the mixed 400 medley relay heats, followed by the slower heats of the women’s 800 free.

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