Kelsi Worrell Maintains Lead After 50 Fly Semi-Finals

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Women’s 50 Fly Semi-Finals:

After posting an American Record in prelims of the women’s 50 fly this morning, the USA’s Kelsi Worrell continued to top the competition in semi-finals with a top showing of 25.18. Worrell’s time situates her in lane four for tomorrow night’s final.

Jeanette Ottesen of Denmark kept close to Worrell throughout the short duration of race, posting a time of 25.29 to pick up the second place seed going into tomorrow night’s final.

Italy’s Silvia di Pietro turned in a third place qualifying time of 25.50, followed closely by The Netherlands’ Maaike de Waard and her time of 25.59.

Japan’s Rikako Ikee posted a time of 25.63 to qualify fifth overall, while France’s Melanie Henique picked up the sixth place seed with a time of 25.66.

Emilie Beckmann of Denmark and Katerine Savard of Canada qualified seventh and eighth with strikingly similar times of 25.75 and 25.76.

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