Chase Kalisz On Top of Men’s 200 IM Semis

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The United States has won seven straight world titles in the men’s 200 IM with Michael Phelps winning three and Ryan Lochte winning the last four. Chase Kalisz has a chance to extend that winning streak to eight on Thursday night at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest. Kalisz swam a 1:55.88 on Wednesday to lead the 200 IM semi-finals. Kalisz will get serious pressure in the final from Japan’s Kosuke Hagino who is the second seed at 1:56.04.

Great Britain’s Max Litchfield (1:56.70), Switzerland’s Jeremy Desplanches (1:56.86), Japan’s Daiya Seto (1:56.92), Germany’s Philip Heintz (1:57.27), China’s Wang Shun (1:57.39) and China’s Qin Haiyang (1:57.81) will swim in the final tomorrow. China’s Qin re-broke his World Junior record from the prelims that stood at 1:59.01.

Abrahm DeVine from the US finished 10th and will not swim in tomorrow night’s final as he swam a 1:58.01.

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Brett Davies

8 years ago

I would not be surprised if Daiyo Seto upsets everyone and wins this one he was a second behind Kalisz in the semi’s but that effort was after taking third place in the 200 fly 40minutes earlier – tonight he will be fresh.