Laszlo Cseh Races To World Best in 200 Fly Prelims at 2015 FINA World Championships

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Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh uncorked a world best in the men’s 200-meter fly at the 2015 FINA World Championships.

Cseh clocked a time of 1:53.71 to beat Daiya Seto’s world best of 1:54.46 from the Japan Open. That’s just a second off Cseh’s lifetime best of 1:52.70 from the 2008 Beijing Olympics that puts him second all time behind Michael Phelps (1:51.51).

Denmark’s Viktor Bromer raced his way to the second seed in 1:54.47 to move to third in the world rankings, while Seto qualified third in 1:55.60.

Poland’s Jan Switkowski (1:55.78), Brazil’s Leonardo De Deus (1:55.83), USA’s Tyler Clary (1:55.86), Japan’s Masato Sakai (1:55.97) and Australia’s David Morgan (1:56.05) qualified fourth through eighth.

USA’s Tom Shields (1:56.12), Greece’s Stefanos Dimitriadis (1:56.23), South Africa’s Sebastien Rousseau (1:56.29), Belgium’s Louis Croenen (1:56.33), Singapore’s Joe Schooling (1:56.85), South Africa’s Chad le Clos (1:56.92), Australia’s Grant Irvine (1:56.92) and Germany’s Alexander Kunert (1:57.28) snared the other spots in semis.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

Men’s 50 breast
Women’s 200 free
Men’s 200 fly
Men’s 800 free

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Atanas Getov

8 years ago

Bravo

Natália Antunes

8 years ago

I always feel that he’s under appreciated. He’s ALWAYS there, always getting a medal, but he’s rarely talked about…

Khalil Bouaziz

8 years ago

Reply to Natália Antunes

so true !