Junya Koga Edges Camille Lacourt in Prelims of Men’s 50 Back

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Men’s 50 Back

Neither Junya Koga of Japan or Camille Lacourt of France swam the 100 back or any other event at the FINA World Championships, but those two posted the top prelim times in the 50 back. Koga swam a mark of 25.54, and Lacourt came in at 24.58.

Lacourt is the defending World Champion in the event, and he has already declared this World Championships to be his final meet.

China’s Xu Jiayu edged out the USA’s Matt Grevers by four hundredths for gold in the men’s 100 back, and the two were even closer in prelims, tying for third in 24.78. France’s Jeremy Stravius took fifth in 24.80, while Israel’s Jonaton Kopelev tied the USA’s Justin Ress for the sixth-best time, with a 24.86.

Russia’s Grigory Tarasevich qualified eighth in 24.88, and also breaking 25 seconds were Hungary’s Richard Bohus (24.93), Belarus’ Pavel Sankovich (24.94) and Greece’s Apostolos Christou (24.99).

Rounding out the semi-final qualifiers were South Korea’s Won Youngjun (25.10), Poland’s Tomasz Polewska (25.10), Brazil’s Guilherme Guido (25.13), Canada’s Javier Acevedo (25.16) and Indonesia’s I Gede Siman Sudartawa (25.17).

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