Laszlo Cseh Tops 200 Fly Semis, Looking for First World Title in Decade at 2015 FINA World Championships

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Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh unleashed another world best during the men’s 200-meter fly semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships.

Cseh clocked a top time of 1:53.53 out of semis, bettering his world best of 1:53.71 from this morning.

Cseh is looking for his second world title ever. He won the 400-meter IM way back in 2005 and hasn’t been able to break through the Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte roadblock. Since 2005, he’s managed to tally 10 career world medals with a gold, four silvers and five bronzes.

South Africa’s Chad le Clos claimed the second seed in 1:54.50 as he had to win semifinal 1 from an outside lane after going easy during prelims. Le Clos is looking for his third world title overall.

Japan’s Masato Sakai (1:54.75), Denmark’s Viktor Bromer (1:54.82), Japan’s Daiya Seto (1:54.95), Poland’s Jan Switkowski (1:55.42), Belgium’s Louis Croenen (1:55.49) and USA’s Tom Shields (1:55.75) also made their way into the championship heat.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

Men’s 200 free finals
Women’s 100 back finals
Men’s 50 breast semis
Women’s 1500 free finals
Men’s 100 back finals
Women’s 200 free semis
Men’s 200 fly semis
Women’s 100 breast finals

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Bill Bell

8 years ago

If hecwins — and, c’ min now, he’s got two chances, slimski and noneskiy– but if he were to best Le Clos there should STILL be an asterisk after his name saying: “the GOAT wasn’t there,”