FINA World Cup, Rio De Janeiro: Day Two Prelims

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, September 11. THE second session of short course meter preliminaries is complete at the FINA World Cup held in Rio.

Women's 100 free
Brazil's Tatiana Lemos Barbosa led the way in prelims with a 54.20, while teammate Flavia Delaroli (55.35) and Julyana Kury (55.69) took second and third. Barbosa moved into the early top 10 in the rankings.

The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (55.89), Sweden's Magdalena (56.18), Brazil's Gabriella Silva (56.19), Brazil's Robert Albino (56.24) and Brazil's Giuliana Gigliotti (56.36) also made the championship finale.

Men's 200 free
Brazil's Rodrigo Castro topped qualifying with a 1:47.23, while China's Jiang Yuhui took second in 1:48.03. Brazil's Thiago Pereira (1:48.25), Leonardo Fim (1:48.35) and Guilherme Roth Santos (1:48.69) took third through fifth.

Argentina's Federico Gradich (1:48.94), Japan's Kenichi Doki (1:49.32) and Brazil's Caue Paciornick (1:49.81) cleared 1:50 to qualify sixth through eighth.

Women's 50 breast
Brazil's Tatiane Sakemi (31.66) and Ana Carla Carvalho (31.98) both cleared 32 seconds for the top two seeds. Germany's Kerstin Vogel (32.01) and Sweden's Joline Hostman (32.43) placed third and fourth in prelims.

Brazil's Carolina Mussi (32.79), Raphaela Cunha (32.93), Beatriz Travalhon (33.25) and Graciele Hermann (33.39) comprised the rest of the final field.

Men's 100 breast
Three Brazilians went sub-59 in prelims with Tales Cerdeira leading the way in 58.38. Henrique Barbosa (58.63) and Felipe Silva (58.82) qualified second and third. Three other swimmers have posted 58s this year: Cameron van der Burgh (58.28), Christian Sprenger (58.75) and Fabio Scozzoli (58.97).

Japan's Kazuki Otsuka (59.26), Brazil's Raphael Rodrigues (59.64), Brazil's Eduardo Fischer (59.89), Brazil's Joao Gomes Jr. (1:00.19) and Germany's Marco Koch (1:00.40) qualified fourth through eighth.

Men's 100 fly
Brazil's Glauber Henrique Silva clocked a 51.98 for the top seed. Just four other swimmers have cleared 52 seconds so far this year: Chris Wright (51.17), Daniel Lester (51.71), Adam Pine (51.82) and Jayden Hadler (51.86).

Germany's Steffen Deibler (52.04), Brazil's Fernando Silva (52.87) and Russia's Nikolay Skvortsov (52.91) qualified second through fourth.

Brazil's Eduardo Goncalves (53.24), Frederico Castro (53.33), Thiago Sickert (53.38) and Heitor Rodrigues (53.97) grabbed the other transfer spots into the finale.

Women's 100 back
Japan's Miyuki Takemura (1:00.33) and Germany's Jenny Mensing (1:00.98) qualified first and second. Argentina's Cecilia Bertoncello (1:01.51) and Brazil's Fabiola Molina (1:01.53) touched third and fourth.

Sweden's Therese Svendsen (1:01.59), Brazil's Natalia Diniz (1:01.74), Brazil's Etiene Medeiros (1:02.21) and Brazil's Fernanda Alvarenga (1:03.22) rounded out the rest of the top eight.

Men's 50 back
Brazil's Guilherme Guido posted the top time in the early world rankings with a 23.78 in the sprint back. Ben Treffers held the previous top time with a 23.81 from July. Brazil's Daniel Orzchowski (24.10) and USA's Peter Marshall (24.13) qualified second and third, both among the top five in the early world rankings.

Russia's Arkady Vyatchanin (24.29), USA's Randall Bal (24.34), Brazil's Leonardo Guedes (24.56), Brazil's Leonardo Sumida (24.71) and Colombia's Omar Pinzon (24.78) earned the other lanes into the championship field.

Women's 200 fly
Brazil's Joanna Maranhao Melo cruised to the top seed with a time of 2:09.81, while Japan's Nao Kobayashi took second in 2:12.92.

Well behind, Brazilians Yana Medeiros (2:18.71), Camila Zattar (2:19.90), Carolina Queiroz (2:21.65), Barbara Venancio (2:22.58), Marianna Terto (2:23.05) and Nathalia Almeida (2:25.64) also made the final. Only one swimmer finished outside the top eight, Brazil's Eliandra Silva (2:26.69).

Men's 200 IM
In the second-straight sparse preliminary field, Brazil's Henrique Barbosa does not look to have much competition with a 1:57.45. That time puts him sixth in the early world rankings. Brazil's Diogo Yabe (2:02.39) and Giuliano Rocco (2:02.63) took second and third.

Japan's Yamato Ujibayashi (2:03.99), Brazil's Thiago Pereira (2:04.14), Brazil's Diego Santos (2:04.85), Brazil's Igor Baldoino (2:05.56) and China's Sun Yunchao (2:06.32) placed fourth through eighth. Brazil's Tiago Fernandes (2:08.20) was the only other prelim swimmer.

Women's 400 free
Argentina's Cecilia Biagioli (4:14.44) and Brazil's Poliana Okimoto (4:14.88) finished first and second in the middle distance qualifying. Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha (4:15.17) and Sarah Correa (4:15.48) qualified third and fourth.

Japan's Ayano Koguchi (4:15.78) and Sakiko Nakamura (4:16.92) finished fifth and sixth, while Brazil's Monique Ferreira (4:17.52) and China's Song Yang (4:20.66) placed seventh and eighth.

Men's 50 free
He might have had some competition in the 100 this morning, but Brazil's Cesar Cielo should win the 50 free going away after qualifying with a 21.08. That effort far surpassed the previous top-ranked time in the early world rankings of 21.42 set by Marco Koch.

Germany's Steffen Deibler (21.83) and Brazil's Nicholas Santos (21.86) qualified second and third under 22 seconds. Meanwhile, Brazilians made up the rest of the championship field with qualifying times from Andre Daudt (22.19), Alan Vitoria (22.23), Marcelo Chierghini (22.25), Bruno Fratus (22.26) and Guilherme Roth Santos (22.26).

Women's 200 breast
Sweden's Joline Hostman qualified first in 2:29.91, while Brazil swept the rest of the transfer spots. Thamy Ventorin (2:31.50), Tatiane Sakemi (2:31.59), Carolina Mussi (2:31.96), Juliana Marin (2:35.19), Raphaela Cunha (2:38.23), Ana Carla Carvalho (2:39.22) and Aline Ribeiro (2:40.54) pocketed the rest of the championship lanes.

Women's 100 IM
Sweden's Therese Alshammar moved to third in the early world rankings of the sprint medley with a 1:01.35. The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder placed second in 1:02.55, while Brazil's Julyana Kury finished third in 1:03.18.

Argentina's Manuela Morano (1:03.41), Brazil's Fabiola Molina (1:03.85), Argentina's Julia Arino (1:04.19), Japan's Nao Kobayashi (1:04.36) and Sweden's Magdalena Kuras (1:04.83) also made their way into the finale.

Men's 200 back
Brazil's Leonardo Fim paced prelims with a 1:56.97, while Colombia's Omar Pinzon touched second in 1:57.63. Brazil's Fabio Santi (1:58.50) and Japan's Yamato Ujibayashi (1:58.70) qualified third and fourth.

Russia's Arkady Vyatchanin (1:59.36), Brazil's Leonardo Guedes (1:59.52), China's Sun Yunchao (1:59.73) and Brazil's Lucas Salatta (1:59.91) all cleared 2:00 to make the championship finale.

Women's 50 fly
Brazil's Daniele De Jesus (26.56), Sweden's Therese Alshammar (26.76) and The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (26.82) placed first through third in prelims.

Brazil's Gabriella Silva (27.40), Brazil's Dandara Antonio (27.42), China's Liu Xinyi (27.69), Brazil's Roberta Albino (27.79) and Brazil's Carolina Athayde (27.81) qualified fourth through eighth.

Day Two Prelims Results

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