Men’s 200 IM Semi-finals:
Andreas Vazaios of Greece clocked the top time in semi-finals of the men’s 200 IM, stopping the clock at a 1:58.47. Vazaios’ time enters him into the top 20 world rankings for 2016 at thirteenth.
Posting the only other sub-2 minute swim was Portugal’s Alexis Manacas Santos. Santos delivered a final time of 1:59.93 to return as the second place seed in tomorrow’s final.
The field narrowed from there with the third through eighth place qualifiers posting times .79 seconds apart. Diogo Filipe Carvalho of Portugal grabbed the third place seed with a 2:00.07.
Israel’s Gal Nevo finished fourth overall with a 2:00.32, while fifth fell to Federico Turrini of Italy.
The sixth place seed was picked up by Luxembourg’s Raphael Stacchiotti and his time of (2:00.72).
The British duo of Dan Wallace (2:00.74) and Max Litchfield (2:00.86) rounded out the qualifiers.
