Sarah Sjostrom Wins Two, Breaks Another WR at FINA World Cup in Moscow

by David Rieder - Senior Writer

03 August 2017, 09:50am

For the second time in two days, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom took down a world record at the FINA World Cup stop in Moscow. Sjostrom, along with Russia’s Vladimir Morozov, each won two events on day two of the meet.

Read below for event-by-event full coverage from Moscow.

Full results

Men’s 100 IM

Russia’s Vladimir Morozov did not come close to his own world record but he pulled away from countryman Sergei Fesikov on the back half to take the victory in his first event of the day. Morozov recorded a time of 51.04 for the top spot, about three-quarters of a second short of his world-record time of 50.30.

Fesikov finished second in 51.78, while Kenneth To, competing for Hong Kong for the first time after previously representing Australia, came in third at 51.97.

Belarus’ Pavel Sankovich took fourth in 52.25, and fifth went to Germany’s Philip Heintz (52.54). Heintz had previously won the 100 IM one day earlier. Others swimming in the final included Italy’s Marco Orsi (52.69), Norway’s Marcus Lie (52.80) and Japan’s Kosuke Matsui (53.07).

Women’s 200 Breast

Denmark’s Rikke Moeller Pedersen had to work as she faded down the stretch, but she had enough to hold on for the win in her signature event. She touched in 2:19.84, holding off a strong final 50 charge from Russia’s Mariia Temnikova, who had to settle for second in 2:20.14.

Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, an early leader at the 50-meter mark, ended up third in 2:20.63, just ahead of Russia’s Daria Chikunova (2:20.84).

Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte, more known for her abilities in the sprint breaststroke events, showed some range in finishing fifth in 2:22.21, while Russia’s Vera Kalashnikova (2:24.71), Poland’s Dominika Sztandera (2:25.04) and France’s Camille Dauba (2:28.18) rounded out the finalists.

Men’s 400 Free

Russia’s Alexander Krashnykh won a tight battle with Italy’s Gabriele Detti to take the win in the 400 free, coming into the wall in 3:38.85, to Detti’s 3:39.02. Neck and neck the entire way, Krashnykh just had a bit more in the tank on the final 50 meters to get the job done.

Norway’s Henrik Christiansen stayed close enough to the top three to secure a third-place finish, touching in 3:39.88.

Poland’s Wojiech Wojdak took fourth in 3:41.26, and then there was a big gap back to fifth-place finisher Alexander Fedorov of Russia (3:45.47). Others in the final included Colombia’s Jonathan Gomez (3:47.28), Belgium’s Lorenz Weiremans (3:50.21) and South Africa’s Aryton Sweeney (3:51.84).

Women’s 100 Free

After breaking the world record in the women’s 50 free on day one in Moscow, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom took down yet another global standard in the four-lap race on day two.

Sjostrom won the event Thursday in 50.77, 14 hundredths faster than the 50.91 Campbell swam two years ago. Two weeks ago, she had never set a world record in the 50 or 100 free, but she know owns the records in both distances in both short and long course.

Sjostrom broke the two long course world record at the FINA World Championships in Budapest before taking down Ranomi Kromowidjojo’s 50 free record Wednesday in Moscow.

Kromowidjojo, representing the Netherlands, finished second to Sjostrom in this Moscow final, coming at 51.14 — quicker than the previous World Cup record of 51.14 set by Fran Halsall in 2009. Campbell finished third in 51.59.

The Netherlands’ Femke Heemskerk took fourth in 51.98, and Italy’s Federica Pellegrini tied with Russia’s Veronika Popova for fifth in 52.99. Also competing in the final were Russians Daria Kartashova (54.09) and Daria Ustinova (54.29).

Men’s 200 Back

Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki picked up the win in his signature event, recording the only performance under 1:49 as he touched the wall in 1:48.96. Kawecki was the World Short Course champion in the event last year but missed out on the semi-finals in the 200 back at last week’s World Championships in Budapest.

Japan’s Masaki Kaneko finished second in 1:49.93, and Germany’s Christian Diener was third in 1:50.37. Well back in fourth was Russia’s Grigory Tarasevich (1:52.55), and Poland’s Jakub Skierka took fifth in 1:54.64.

Australia’s Mitch Larkin, the world record-holder in the event, finished a surprising sixth in 1:53.30. Larkin has been almost eight seconds faster in his career, but he has struggled badly recently, including at the World Championships, where he was eliminated in the 200 back semi-finals as the defending World Champion.

Russia’s Dmitrii Maltcev finished seventh in 1:53.88, and France’s Maxence Orange took eighth in 1:54.03.

Women’s 200 IM

In her lone event of the day, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu was never challenge in the middle of the three medley distances. Hosszu won the race in 2:04.76, almost three seconds off her world record of 2:01.86.

Australia’s Emily Seebohm came in second at 2:07.64, and Poland’s Alicja Tchorz took third in 2:08.13. The Netherland’s Femke Heemskerk took fourth for the second straight women’s final (following the 100 free) as she touched in 2:09.80.

Others competing in the final included Germany’s Alexandra Wenk (2:10.57), Russia’s Kristina Vershinina (2:12.04), France’s Camille Dauba (2:15.14) and Russia’s Aleksandra Maslova (2:15.91).

Men’s 50 Fly

The changes to the World Cup format meant that only two men’s butterfly races would be contested in Moscow, but South Africa’s Chad Le Clos has now won them both. After winning the 100-meter race Wednesday, he added the 50 to his collection of first-place finishes, touching in 22.31.

Le Clos easily out-paced Great Britain’s Adam Barrett, who touched second in 22.55. Belarus’ Yauhen Tsurkin and the United States’ Tom Shields each touched five hundredths back in 22.60, tying for third.

There were actually two additional ties in the final as Russian countrymen Nikita Korolev and Oleg Kostin tied for fifth in 22.73, and Belarus’ Pavel Sankovich tied Finland’s Riku Polytakivi for seventh in 22.95.

Women’s 50 Back

After twice finishing second to Katinka Hosszu in both the 100 back and 200 IM, Australia’s Emily Seebohm picked up her first victory of the two-day Moscow meet in the 50 back. The World Champion in the 200 back last week, Seebohm touched in 26.35 to beat the Netherlands’ Maaike De Waard by two tenths.

De Waard finished second in 26.55, and Poland’s Alicja Tchorz took third in 26.69.

Russia’s Maria Kameneva finished fourth in 26.73, and then there was a tie for fifth between Russia’s Anastasiia Fesikova and the Netherlands’ Ranomi Kromowidjojo, with both touching in 26.77. Kromowidjojo, more known for her sprint free abilities, was making a rare appearance in a dorsal race.

Poland’s Aleksandra Urbanczyk took seventh in 26.98, followed by Colombia’s Isabella Arcila in 27.41.

Men’s 100 Breast

Swimming out of lane eight, South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh took down a pair of impressive Russians to win the 100 breast in Moscow. Van der Burgh holds the world record in the event at 55.61, and he came in seven tenths behind that in 56.30, just enough to touch out Ilya Shymanovich (56.40).

Kirill Prigoda, who captured a bronze in the event at the World Championships, took third again in 56.80.

Belgium’s Basten Caerts finished fourth in 57.71, while Russia’s Vladimir Morozov, the top seed and winner of the 100 IM earlier in the night, was fifth in 57.95.

Just behind Morozov was Russian Anton Chupkov, the 200 breast World Champion, who finished in 57.97. Two other Russians, Andrei Nikolaev (58.47) and Rustam Gadirov (59.13), finished seventh and eighth, respectively.

Women’s 800 Free

Spain’s Mireia Belmonte could not quite approach her sensational world record of 7:59.34, but she cruised to first in the 800 free, pulling away from Chile’s Kristel Kobrich and touching in 8:07.10. Kobrich ended up second in 8:18.88.

New Zealand’s Emma Robinson took third in 8:21.58, and Russia’s Anna Egorova finished fourth in 8:21.84. Portugal’s Diana Duraes (8:24.09) and Tamila Holub (8:30.86), China’s Wang Guoyue (8:36.59) and Russia’s Arina Openysheva (8:38.43) completed the top eight.

Men’s 50 Free

Russia’s Vladimir Morozov picked up his second top finish of the day, finishing well ahead of the field in the splash-and-dash and touching in 20.93.

Poland’s Pawe Juraszek finished second in 21.25, touching out Russia’s Sergei Fesikov (21.28) by three hundredths.

Hungary’s Maxim Lobanovskij took fourth in 21.40, and he was followed by Italy’s Marco Orsi (21.45), the Netherlands’ Jesse Puts (21.53), Japan’s Kosuke Matsui (21.63) and Belarus’ Artsiom Machekin (21.69).

Women’s 100 Fly

After setting a world record earlier in the evening in the 100 free, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom picked up another win in the women’s 100 fly– even if she couid not approach her own world record this time around.

Sjostrom cruised to victory in 55.70, well ahead of anyone else in the field. Russia’s Svetlana Chimrova took second in 57.02, and Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, much better-known for her breaststroke abilities than butterfly, came in third in 57.56.

Also breaking 58 were Russia’s Ekaterina Shapanikova (57.73) and Germany’s Franziska Hentke (57.84), and the rest of the field consisted of Hong Kong’s Kin Lok Chan (58.58), Russia’s Anastasia Guzhenkova (59.00) and Germany’s Alexandra Wenk (59.16).

Mixed 200 Free Relay

Russia cruised to victory in the mixed 200 free relay to round out the night, with Vladimir Morozov (21.51), Sergei Fesikov (21.37), Rozaliya Nasretdinova (24.21) and Veronika Popova (24.30) combining to swim a time of 1:31.39.

Poland took second in 1:32.93 with Pawe Juraszek, Aleksandra Urbanczyk, Alicja Tchorz and Tomasz Polewka competing. Another Russian squad, Roman Shevliakov, Kirill Kiselev, Daria Kartashova and Daria Ustinova, took third in 1:33.11.

Yet another foursome from Russia finished fourth in 1:33.54, and China was fourth in 1:40.34.

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