2016 FINA Short Course World Championships: Day Six Finals Recap

Photo Courtesy: Taylor Brien

It was a thrilling night of racing to cap the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships on Sunday. Kelsi Worrell got touched out by Katinka Hosszu in the butterfly, then was injured in a collision during her warm down. Worrell received stitches above her right eye and came back to lead Team USA to gold in the 400 medley relay to close the meet. Read below for the full recap of night six, including a final medal count!

Events:

Women’s 4×50 Freestyle Relay FINAL
Men’s 1500 Freestyle FINAL
Men’s 100 Freestyle FINAL
Women’s 200 Breaststroke FINAL
Men’s 200 Backstroke FINAL
Women’s 100 Butterfly FINAL
Men’s 50 Breaststroke FINAL
Women’s 50 Freestyle FINAL
Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay FINAL
Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay FINAL

Check out the complete results.

Women’s 4×50 Freestyle Relay

Canada started the final night of the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships giving the home crowd in Windsor, Ontario, something to cheer about.

Canada won the 4×50-meter freestyle relay with a Canadian-record 1:35.00. Michelle Williams led off for the Canadians, followed by Sandrine Mainville, Taylor Ruck and Penny Oleksiak.

The Netherlands (Tamara Van Vliet, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Maaike De Waard and Kim Busch) finished second at 1:35.37 to take the silver medal, while Italy (Silvia di Pietro, Erika Ferraioli, Aglaia Pezzato and Frederica Pellegrini) took the bronze at 1:35.61.

Team USA (Amanda Weir, Kelsi Worrell, Madison Kennedy and Katrina Marie Konopka) finished just out of the medals, taking fourth in 1:35.86.

Denmark took fifth (1:36.98), followed by France (1:37.21), China (1:37.96) and Japan in 1:39.79.

Men’s 1500 Freestyle

The first individual final of the final night of the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships was the longest men’s race of the meet.

Park Taehwan of Korea continued his strong performances in the 1500-meter freestyle, winning in 14:15.51. He had enough in the tank to hold off Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri (14:21.94), who took the silver.

Poland’s Wojciech Wojdak took the bronze in 14:25.37.

Denmark’s Anton Ipsen 14:31.53 took fourth, followed by Norway’s Henrik Christiansen (14:33.56), USA’s Nicholas Sweetser (14:35.51), Hungary’s Gergely Gyuarta (14:39.01) and Italy’s Gabriele Detti (14:39.34).

Men’s 100 Free

Simonas Bilis gave Lithuania a gold medal at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships by winning the 100-meter freestyle in 46.58 seconds, lowering his country’s record.

Bilis edged Japan’s Shinri Shioura (46.59) by one hundredth of a second. Shioura took the silver.

Swimming in lane eight didn’t keep Australia’s Tommaso D’Orsogna from a medal. He finished in 46.70 to take the bronze.

Team USA’s Blake Pieroni finished fourth (46.88), followed by Italy’s Luca Dotto (46.95), France’s Mehdy Metella (47.08), Korea’s Park Taewhan (47.09), who was racing just minutes after winning the 1,500 and Germany’s Marius Kusch (47.44).

Women’s 200 Breaststroke

Great Britain had a spectacular finish in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke. Molly Renshaw won the gold medal and compatriot Chloe Tutton won the bronze.

Renshaw won the race in 2:18.51, edging Canada’s Kelsey Lauren Wog (2:18.52) by one hundredth of a second. Tutton took third in 2:18.83.

Olympic gold medalist Lilly King, of the United States, took fourth from lane eight in 2:19.34, finishing just out of the medals.

Canada’s Kierra Smith was fifth (2:19.88), followed by Belgium’s Fanny Lecluyse (2:19.96), Japan Kako Ishida (2:20.81) and Team USA’s Molly Hannis (2:21.94) was eighth.

Men’s 200 Backstroke

Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki used a late surge to hold off Jacob Pebley and the rest of the field in the men’s 200-meter backstroke final at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships.

Kawecki won gold in 1:47.63, ahead of silver medal winner Pebley (1:48.98), of the United States.

Japan’s Masaki Kaneko (1:49.18) edged Australia’s Michell Larkin (1:49.25) for the bronze.

Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys (1:50.87) took fifth, followed by China’s Xu Jiayu (1:51.37), Japan’s Hayate Matsubara (1:52.16) and Romania’s Robert Glinta (1:52.57).

Women’s 100 Butterfly

Katinka Hosszu used a late surge to push past Kelsi Worrell in the women’s 100-meter butterfly at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships to earn another gold medal.

Hosszu, of Hungary, passed Worrell after the final turn and used an extra half stroke to edge the American. It was her seventh gold medal of the championships.

Hosszu finished in 55.12, just a tenth ahead of Worrell (55.22), who set the American record, and took the silver — her fifth medal of the meet.

Japan’s Rikako Ikee (55.64) took the bronze medal.

Canada’s Katerine Savard (56.15) was fourth, followed by Russia’s Svetlana Chimrova (57.12), Team USA’s Sarah Gibson (57.22), Australia’s Emily Washer (57.35) and Brazil’s Daiene Dias (57.56).

Men’s 50 Breaststroke

South Africa’s Cameron Van Der Burgh pulled off a stunning victory in the men’s 50-meter breaststroke at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships on Sunday.

Though he is the world record holder in the event, Van Der Burgh failed to make the final in the 100 breaststroke and won the gold medal in the 50 from lane one, finishing in 25.64.

Slovenia’s Peter Stevens (25.85) took the silver medal and Brazil’s Felipe Lima earned the bronze at 25.98.

Russia’s Kirill Prigoda (26.03) was fourth, followed by South Africa’s Giulio Zorzi (26.13) and Brazil’s Felipe Franca Silva (26.13), who each tied for fifth.

There was another tie for seventh as Cody Miller of the United States and Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli both finished in 26.18.

Women’s 50 Freestyle

Ranomi Kromowidjojo continued her strong sprinting, winning gold in the women’s 50-meter freestyle at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships on Sunday.

The swimmer from the Netherlands won the race in 23.60, holding off Italy’s Silvia Di Pietro (23.90), who won the silver.

Swimming in lane eight, Team USA’s Madison Kennedy used a late surge to win the bronze in 23.93.

Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen (24.00) was fourth, followed by Italy’s Erika Ferraioli (24.04) and France’s Anna Santamans (24.04), who tied for fifth. Australia Brittany Elmslie (24.05) was seventh and Amanda Weir (24.48), of the United States, was eighth.

Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Russia passed the United States on the final leg to win the men’s 4×100-meter medley relay at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Team USA was disqualified for an early start, and will miss out on the silver medal to end the men’s meet.

Russia won gold in 3:21.17 behind Andrei Shabasov, Kirill Prigoda, Aleksandr Kharlanov and Vladimir Morozov.

With the disqualification of the U.S. (Jacob Pebley, Cody Miller, Tom Shields and Blake Pieroni) Australia (Mitchell Larkin, Tommy Sucipto, David Morgan and Tommaso D’Ordsogna) moved up to earn silver in 3:23.56 and Japan won the bronze in 3:24.71.

Belarus was fifth (3:25.36), followed by Great Britain (3:25.77), France (3:26.33) and China (3:26.87).

Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Kelsi Worrell was injured in the warmup pool after taking silver in the 100-meter butterfly at he 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships on Sunday.

The American swimmer required stitches above her right eye but still wanted to swim the meet-closing 400 medley relay.

She swam a split of 55.4 to lead the United States to the gold medal to finish the meet on a high note.

Worrell teamed with Ali DeLoof, Lilly King and Mallory Elizabeth Comerford to win gold in 3:47.89 — a championship record.

Host Canada finished with the silver in 3:48.87 behind Kylie Jacqueline Masse, Rachel Nicol, Katerine Savard and Penny Oleksiak.

Australia (3:49.66) took the bronze.

Japan (3:50.28) finished fourth, followed by China (3:51.01), Russia (3:52.95), Italy (3:53.58) and Great Britain (3:54.54).

Final medal count

Team USA totaled 30 medals with eight gold, 15 silver and seven bronze to win the gold medal standings.

Hungary finished second with seven gold, two silver and two bronze for 11 overall.

Russia was third with 14 overall, with six gold, five silver and three bronze.

Japan had the second-highest total with 15 total medals, but 11 were bronze with two gold and two silver. Australia had 11 medals with seven bronze, two gold and two silver.

South Africa had four gold and one silver. South Korea had three gold, host Canada had two gold, three silver and three bronze, while the Netherlands had two gold, three silver and a bronze.

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