2019 World Junior Swimming Championships Day 4 Prelims: Minakov, Pallister Take Top Seeds

Andrei Minakov - Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

World Junior Swimming Championships (Lani Pallister, Andrei Minakov)

Budapest, Day 4 Prelims

The 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships is underway Friday morning in Budapest with a full slate of events as the top junior swimmers in the world vied for world titles.

The session began with the women’s 50 backstroke, followed by the men’s 50 fly, the women’s 400 free, the men’s 200 breast and the women’s 200 IM before the relay of the day, the men’s 4×200 free relay.

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Women’s 50 Back

World Record: Liu Xiang, China (26.98)
Meet Record: Gabrielle Fa’amausili, New Zealand (27.81)
World Junior Record: Minna Atherton, Australia (27.49)
Top Entry: Daria Vaskina, Russia (27.51)

The quest for the world junior title got off to an intriguing start to kick off the fourth day of competition.

Canada’s Jade Hannah and Australia’s Bronte Job tied for the top seed in 28.02 and will head into the semifinals with identical times.

Plenty of other swimmers were within striking distance as Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan took the third seed in 28.24 and Russia’s Daria Vaskina took the fifth spot (28.34).

Another tie put two swimmers in the sixth seed as Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko and USA’s Annabel Crush each touched the wall in 28.74.

USA’s Claire Curzan rounded out the top eight with a 28.77.

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Men’s 50 Fly

World Record: Andrii Govorov, Ukraine (22.27)
Meet Record: Michael Andrew, USA (23.22)
World Junior Record: Michael Andrew, USA (23.22)
Top Entry: Thomas Ceccon, Italy (23.46)

Andrei Minakov of Russia took the top seed in the 50 fly, touching the wall in 23.45.

It was a hundredth of a second ahead of the top entry time of 23.46 by Thomas Ceccon of Italy, who tied for the eighth seed.

Germany’s Luca Armbruster took the second seed in 23.75, followed by Russia’s Aleksandr Shchegolev (23.77) and Brazil’s Bernardo Bondra (23.83).

Bulgaria’s Josif Miladinov was fifth in 23.87, followed by USA’s Blake Manoff (24.04) and Belarus’ Arseni Barzhakou (24.11).

Ceccon and Egypt’s Youssef Ramadan tied for the eighth seed in 24.13.

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Women’s 400 Free

World Record: Katie Ledecky, USA (3:56.46)
Meet Record: Tamsin Cook, Australia (4:06.17)
World Junior Record: Katie Ledecky, USA (3:58.37)
Top Entry: Lani Pallister, Australia (4:06.57)

Australia’s Lani Pallister continued her strong performances this week with a strong prelim swim in the 400 free.

She took the top seed in 4:08.30, more than 2 seconds ahead of the field. She had the fastest first 100 in the field at 59.20 and continued to build a lead in the final prelim heat.

Japan’s Miyu Namba closed with a 30.47 to take the second seed in 4:10.47.

USA’s Claire Tuggle was even faster in her final split with a 30.30 which helped her take the third seed in 4:10.48, just a hundredth behind Namba.

Turkey’s Beril Bocekler and USA’s Rachel Stege were in different heats but both touched the wall in 4:10.55 to tie for the fourth seed.

New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather was sixth in 4:10.77, followed by Canada’s Emma O’Croinin (4:11.07) and Spain’s Paula Juste Sanchez (4:11.83).

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Men’s 200 Breast

World Record: Anton Chupkov, Russia (2:06.12)
Meet Record: Anton Chupkov, Russia (2:10.19)
World Junior Record: Qin Haiyang, China (2:09.39)
Top Entry: Shoma Sato, Japan (2:09.42)

Japan made its mark in the 200 breast, taking the top two seeds into the finals.

Shoma Sato used an impressive 1:02.52 opening 100 to take the top seed in 2:10.44. It was about a second behind his entry time, but also 25 hundredths off the meet record. A solid swim in finals and he could be faster than both of those marks.

Yuta Arai took the second seed in 2:12.87, nearly 2 ½ seconds behind Sato, but two tenths ahead of the rest of the field.

USA’s Josh Matheny took the third seed in 2:13.08, followed by Russia’s Alexander Zhigalov (2:13.40), Greece’s Savvas Thomoglou (2:13.50) and Turkey’s Demirkan Demir (2:13.63), who were all within about a half second from each other.

Great Britain’s Kyle Booth (2:14.29) and Canada’s Gabe Mastromatteo (2:14.30) rounded out the finals qualifiers.

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Women’s 200 IM

World Record: Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2:06.12)
Meet Record: Viktoria Gunes, Turkey (2:11.03)
World Junior Record: Rikako Ikee, Japan (2:09.98)
Top Entry: Anastasia Gorbenko, Israel (2:11.92)

Justina Kozan of the U.S. continued her strong performance by taking the top seed in the 200 IM. She finished in 2:12.83, nearly 2 seconds off the meet record, but nearly 2 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

Kozan was out in 28.38 and continued to build her lead.

Japan’s Mei Ishihara took the second seed after touching the wall in 2:14.62. Only one other person broke 2:15 during prelims and that was Germany’s Zoe Vogelmann, who finished in 2:14.81.

Israel’s Lea Polonsky took the fourth seed in 2:15.10, followed by Japan’s Shiho Matsumoto (2:15.58), USA’s Grace Sheble (2:15.66), Spain’s Alba Vazquez Ruiz (2:15.82) and Canada’s Ashley McMillan (2:15.85).

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Men’s 4×200 Free Relay

World Record: USA, 6:58.55
Meet Record: Hungary, 7:10.95
World Junior Record: Hungary, 7:10.95
Top Entry: USA, 7:16.42

Team USA put together the top foursome in the men’s 4×200 free relay to end the morning session.

Jake Magahey, Dare Rose, Wyatt Davis and Jake Mitchell finished in 7:13.14 to take the top seed.

Magahey split a 1:48.24, while Rose split a 1:48.78, Davis split a 1:48.33 and Mitchell anchored with a 1:47.79.

Australia took the second seed with Mitchell Tinsley, Noah Millard, Thomas Hauck and Alexander Grant finishing in 7:19.20.

Russia’s Nikita Danilov, Egor Pavlov, Maksim Aleksandrov and Roman Moskalenko took the third seed in 7:19.51.

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