Adam Peaty Moves Through to 50 Breast Semifinals With 26.28

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Adam Peaty - Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant

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FINA World Swimming Championships (Adam Peaty)

Gwangju 2019

Day 3 Heats (Men’s 50 Breast)

Great Britain’s Adam Peaty, fresh off a world record in the 100 breast semifinals from Sunday night, swam the fastest 50 breast time in the heats on Tuesday morning in Gwangju. Peaty swam a 26.28 to lead the semifinalists into tonight as he is ahead of the Brazilian duo of Joao Gomes and Felipe Lima. Those countrymen tied for second at 26.73.

Coming into the meet, Gomes and Lima showed signs of challenging Peaty by the time the final rolls around. But after Peaty’s otherworldly 56.88 on Sunday, he is looking to be a slam dunk to win the gold medal tomorrow night. But these World Championships have already seen Katie Ledecky and Sarah Sjostrom stand in the silver medal position on the podium, so anything is possible.

Turkey’s Huseyin Sakci (26.87) is tied for fourth with Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich, who was 12th in the 100 after coming in as a medal favorite. There was yet another tie for sixth place with Russia’s Kirill Prigoda (26.93) and China’s Yan Zibei, who broke the Asian Record in the process. Yan won the bronze medal in the 100 breast behind Peaty and fellow Brit James Wilby.

Ireland’s Darragh Greene (26.94) and Russia’s Andrei Nikolaev (26.99) also broke 27 seconds in the heats. USA’s Michael Andrew (27.02) advanced to the semifinals in 11th place while the other American Andrew Wilson scratched to presumably focus on the 200 breast later in the week.

1	PEATY	Adam	GBR	26.28
2	GOMES JUNIOR	Joao	BRA	26.73
2	LIMA	Felipe	BRA	26.73
4	SAKCI	Huseyin	TUR	26.87
4	SHYMANOVICH	Ilya	BLR	26.87
6	PRIGODA	Kirill	RUS	26.93
6	YAN	Zibei	CHN	26.93	AS
8	GREENE	Darragh	IRL	26.94
9	NIKOLAEV	Andrei	RUS	26.99
10	MARTINENGHI	Nicolo	ITA	27.00
11	ANDREW	Michael	USA	27.02
12	SCOZZOLI	Fabio	ITA	27.11
13	BJERG	Tobias	DEN	27.13
14	ELZERMAN	Ties	NED	27.19
15	OBROVAC	Nikola	CRO	27.27
16	KOSEKI	Yasuhiro	JPN	27.33

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