World Cup, Tokyo: Day One Prelims

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TOKYO, Japan, October 19. THE first day of short course meter preliminary racing is complete at the World Cup stop in Tokyo.

Men's 100 free
Australia's Kyle Richardson topped prelims in 47.99, while Sweden's Lars Frolander took second in 48.11. Russia's Sergey Fesikov (48.22), South Africa's Lyndon Ferns (48.37) and Japan's Yukihiro Okumura (48.51) placed third through fifth.

Japan's Syunsuke Kuzuhara (48.57), South Africa's Graeme Moore (48.58) and Austria's Markus Rogan (48.60) snared the final three transfer spots into the finale.

Women's 200 free
Japan's Haruka Ueda (1:55.51) and Hanae Itou (1:56.47) led the way in prelims. Ueda moved to fifth in the world rankings, while Itou took 10th.

Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (1:58.51), Japan's Risa Sekine (1:58.85) and Japan's Misato Yamazaki (1:59.63) finished third through fifth. Japan's Yayoi Matsumoto (1:59.67), Japan's Ayano Koguchi (1:59.73) and China's Zhang Jiaqi (1:59.97) completed the top eight.

Men's 50 breast
Japan's Kouichirou Okazaki raced into the top 10 in the world rankings with a 27.03. South Africa's Roland Schoeman finished second in 27.14, while Japan's Yuuki Okajima took third in 27.18. Japan's Kosuke Kitajima cruised into the finale with a fourth-place 27.23.

Japan's Naoya Tomita (27.31), Japan's Ryo Tateishi (27.38), Brazil's Tales Cerdeira (27.65) and Japan's Ryo Kobayashi (27.65) picked up the rest of the finale spots.

Women's 100 breast
Japan's Asami Kitagawa (1:06.53) and USA's Jessica Hardy (1:06.62) both cleared 1:07 for the top two seeds. Japan's Satomi Suzuki (1:07.13), Ayumi Koshiyama (1:07.22) and Rie Kanetou (1:07.29) claimed the third through fifth seeds.

Japan's Sayuna Sugiyama (1:07.35), Japan's Nanaka Tamura (1:08.17) and Japan's Hitomi Nose (1:08.19) completed the championship field.

Women's 100 fly
Sweden's Therese Alshammar (57.36) and Japan's Yuka Katou (57.85) finished first and second in prelims. USA's Natalie Coughlin (58.06), Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (58.59) and Japan's Tomoyo Fukuda (58.64) finished third through fifth.

USA's Elaine Breeden (58.89), Japan's Nao Kobayashi (58.95) and Japan's Yurie Yano (59.48) made up the rest of the finale.

Men's 100 back
South Africa's George Du Rand paced prelims with a 52.18, while USA's Peter Marshall (52.27), Australia's Hayden Stoeckel (52.37), Japan's Junya Koga (52.44) and Japan's Kazuki Watanabe (52.45) finished in the top five.

Japan's Ryosuke Irie (52.63), Syohei Uchida (52.64) and Masafumi Yamaguchi (52.71) also took home championship spots.

Women's 50 back
Japan's Aya Terakawa raced to the top spot with a 27.06, while Australia's Rachel Goh took second in 27.08. Yerakawa moved to fifth in the world rankings, while Goh already stands second with a season-best 26.64 from Singapore.

Australia's Marieke Guehrer (27.11), Japan's Noriko Inada (27.34) and The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (27.48) placed third through fifth. Japan's Shiho Sakai (27.90), Marie Kamimura (27.95) and Emi Moronuki (28.21) touched sixth through eighth.

Men's 200 fly
Japan's Takeshi Matsuda posted the top seed with a time of 1:53.13 to move to fourth in the world rankings. Japan's Hidemasa Sano (1:54.86), Ryosuke Sakata (1:55.35) and Hayato Odagiri (1:57.14) turned in second through fourth-place finishes.

Brazil's Leonardo De Deus (1:57.26), Japan's Kiyotaka Ido (1:57.58), Hirotaka Satou (1:57.95) and Japan's Jun Isaji (1:58.33) also made the finale.

Women's 200 IM
Japan's Izumi Katou (2:11.07), USA's Julia Smit (2:11.36) and Japan's Emi Takabatake (2:11.81) posted 2:11s for the top three seeds.

Japan's Tomoyo Fukuda (2:12.66), Chihiro Igarashi (2:13.11), Miho Teramura (2:13.30), Masako Kuroki (2:13.32) and Haruna Shinohara (2:13.44) provided the hometown crowd even more local swimmers to root for in the finale.

Men's 400 free
Japan's Syou Uchida held off Switzerland's Dominik Meichtry, 3:46.13 to 3:46.25, for the top seed. Japan's Junpei Higashi (3:47.98), Russia's Mikhail Polishchuk (3:48.00) and Japan's Hirotada (Noritake (3:49.67) placed third through fifth.

Japan's Kai Kohata (3:49.70), Takashi Koike (3:49.88) and Yuuki Kobori (3:49.98) grabbed the final three transfer spots.

Women's 50 free
The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (24.39), Sweden's Therese Alshammar (24.69), Australia's Marieke Guehrer (24.73), USA's Jessica Hardy (24.80) and Germany's Dorothea Brandt (24.99) all cleared 25 seconds to lead the way in the sprint free.

USA's Madison Kennedy (25.12), Japan's Tomoko Hagiwara (25.24) and Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (25.32) snared the rest of the top spots.

Men's 200 breast
Japan's Kosuka Kitajima raced to the top seed with a time of 2:08.20. Austria's Markus Rogan (2:08.72), Brazil's Tales Cerdeira (2:08.75), Japan's Ryo Tateishi (2:08.79), Japan's Naoya Tomita (2:08.84) and Japan's Kazuki Otsuka (2:08.97) joined him in the 2:08s.

Japan's Masaya Kanou (2:09.19) and Japan's Yukihiro Takahashi (2:09.73) also earned spots in the championship field.

Men's 100 IM
Brazil's Thiago Pereira will look to continue on his World Cup-leading roll, and his top-seeded time in the sprint medley of 53.38 gave him a good start. Japan's Takuro Fujii (53.52), Brazil's Henrique Barbosa (53.59) and Russia's Sergey Fesikov (53.79) also posted 53s.

Japan's Yuma Kosaka (54.44), Canada's Brian Johns (54.46) and Japan's Kosuke Kitajima (54.71) picked up the other three lanes in the finale.

Women's 200 back
Japan's Shiho Sakai posted a top time of 2:06.11 to move into sixth in the world rankings. Teammate Aya Terakawa finished second in 2:06.17 to grab seventh in the rankings. Japan's Marie Kamimura (2:06.20) picked up third to move to eighth in the rankings.

Japan's Sayaka Akase (2:07.25), Japan's Eriko Tanaka (2:08.27), Japan's Mai Harada (2:08.46), USA's Julia Smit (2:08.49) and Germany's Jenny Mensing (2:09.61) placed fourth through eighth.

Men's 50 fly
Germany's Steffen Deibler, who has the top ranking in the world with a 22.49 from the Rio stop, took the top seed in 22.72. Japan's Kohei Kawamoto (23.18), South Africa's Roland Schoeman (23.33), Sweden's Lars Frolander (23.48) and Japan's Arata Inoue (23.60) finished second through fifth.

Japan's Ryo Takayasu (23.66), Takayuki Ohno (23.75) and Yuki Hirose (23.76) also snagged spots in the finale.

Day One Prelims Results

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