Andrii Govorov, Caeleb Dressel Sub-23 in Men’s 50 Fly Heats

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Ukraine’s Andrii Govorov earned the top seed into semi-finals in the men’s 50 fly, touching the wall in 22.92, winning his heat by five hundredths over the USA’s Caeleb Dressel.

Dressel ended up qualifying second in 22.97, and Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, the Olympic gold medalist in the 100 fly, was third in 23.05.

Great Britain’s Ben Proud was fourth in 23.11, and he was followed by the Brazilian duo of Nicholas Santos (23.24) and Henrique Martins (23.34).

Rounding out the semi-final field were the USA’s Tim Phillips (23.38), Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh (23.41), Poland’s Konrad Czerniak (23.42), Russia’s Evgeny Sedov (23.49), Italy’s Piero Codia (23.50), Serbia’s Sebastian Sabo (23.51), the Netherlands’ Mathys Goosen (23.52), Ukraine’s Andrii Khloptsov (23.54) and the Belarus duo of Yauhen Tsurkin (23.55) and Yahor Dodaleu (23.56).

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Listen to Dressel discuss his prelims effort, how much he enjoys the 50 fly, his thoughts on competing against his old teammate Schooling and his plan for the 400 free relay in finals.

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Shaheen Alghofari

8 years ago

What u saying Joe Stott our predictions are kind of right except I said dressel would win wait till final