Lilly King, Kylie Masse and Adam Peaty Smash World Records on Third Night of Swimming in Budapest

by Andy Ross

25 July 2017, 11:54am

The 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest have featured some very fast swims and exciting races. The action really heated up on Tuesday night with three world records. Adam Peaty, Kylie Masse and Lilly King all broke world records in Budapest in their respective events. Peaty lowered his 50 breast from this morning while Masse and King finally broke through and got their world records that they have been knocking on the door for the last year.

Sun Yang, Katie Ledecky and Xu Jiayu also picked up gold medals in their events in the pool.

Heat Sheets

Results

Tonight’s Events:

• Men’s 200 Free
• Women’s 1500 Free
• Men’s 50 Breast (SF)
• Women’s 100 Back
• Men’s 100 Back
• Women’s 200 Free (SF)
• Men’s 200 Fly (SF)
• Women’s 100 Breast

Men’s 200 Free

In the men’s 200 free final, Sun Yang of China won his first World Title in the 200 with a 1:44.39 to out pace the field over the second half. Sun ran away from the field to have the fastest last 50 in the field with a 26.94. American Townley Haas finished in second for his first individual medal in a major competition with a 1:45.04 for silver. Russian Alexandr Krasnykh won the bronze medal with a 1:45.23.

One of the surprises of the meet was the British duo of Duncan Scott (1:45.27) and James Guy (1:45.36) finishing off the medals stand in fourth and fifth. They will still be tough to beat in the 4×200 free relay later in the week.

Hungarian Dominik Kozma (1:45.54), Russian Mikhail Dovgalyuk (1:46.02) and Korean Park Tae Hwan (1:47.11) also competed in the A-final.

This is the first World Title for China in the men’s 200 free at the World Championships. It is the second medal for Sun in the Worlds in the 200 as he won silver in 2015.

Women’s 1500 Free

In really no surprise, Katie Ledecky ran away with the 1500 free gold medal. Ledecky led the race from start to finish for her third straight world title in the 1500 with a 15:31.82, a little off her 15:25 world record from 2015. Ledecky will be in action later on in the session in the 200 free semi-final.

The gold medal is Ledecky’s 12th overall World Championship gold medal, the most of all-time for a woman, breaking a tie with fellow American Missy Franklin.

Mireia Belmonte Garcia won the silver medal with a 15:50.89 ahead of Italian Simona Quadarella in bronze with a 15:53.86.

Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas (16:06.27), China’s Hou Yawen (16:08.10), Chile’s Kristel Kobrich (16:13.46), Liechtenstein’s Julia Hassler (16:14.86) and Hungary’s Ajna Kesely (16:22.87) also competed in the A-final.

The win is the fifth in the women’s 1500 at the World Championships for the United States. It is Ledecky’s third straight (2013, 2015) and adds on to Kate Ziegler’s golds from 2005 and 2007.

Men’s 50 Breast (SF)

Adam Peaty of Great Britain is in a league of his own as he broke his second world record of the day with a 25.95 to be the first man to break 26 seconds in the 50 breaststroke. Peaty broke his world record from 26.10 this morning.

Peaty will lead a field of seven 26’s into tomorrow’s final. Peaty leads Brazil’s Felipe Lima (26.68), South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh (26.74), Russia’s Kirill Prigoda (26.85), United States’ Kevin Cordes (26.86), Brazil’s Joao Gomes (26.86), Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich (26.90) and Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli (26.96) into Wednesday’s final.

American Cody Miller was 16th with a 27.46.

This is Peaty’s fourth World Record in the 50 breaststroke.

Women’s 100 Back

It was the oldest world record on the women’s side and it was finally broken Tuesday night at the 2017 FINA World Championships. Canadian Kylie Masse finally got under the women’s 100 back world record, a record that so many had gotten close to, but no one had gotten under. Masse swam a 58.10 to get under Gemma Spofforth’s world record of 58.12 from 2009. It is Canada’s first world record in the women’s 100 back since 1974 when Wendy Cook held the record for a short period.

Masse beat American Kathleen Baker who finished second at 58.58 for her first World Championship medal. Australia’s Emily Seebohm won the bronze with a 58.59 for her fourth 100 back world championship medal.

USA’s Olivia Smoliga (58.77), Russia’s Anastasia Fesikova (58.83), Daria Ustinova (59.50), Czech Republic’s Simona Baumrtova (59.71) and Great Britain’s Kathleen Dawson (59.90) also competed in the A-final.

Canada has never won a gold medal in the women’s 100 back at World Championships and Masse’s gold is the first medal for Canada since Cheryl Gibson won bronze in 1978.

Men’s 100 Back

It was expected that a world record would win the gold for the men’s 100 back at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest. China’s Xu Jiayu was expected to give Ryan Murphy’s 51.85 a run but ultimately Xu fell short in the final with a 52.44 for the gold.

Xu got some serious pressure from Americans Murphy and Matt Grevers but the Chinese man held them off barely. Grevers won the silver medal with a 52.48 ahead of Murphy’s 52.59. Xu wins his first World Championship gold while Grevers wins his third straight medal in the 100 back at the World Championships. This is also Murphy’s first World Championship individual medal.

Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (53.03), Russia’s Grigory Tarasevich (53.12), Australia’s Mitch Larkin (53.24), Brazil’s Guilherme Guido (53.66) and New Zealand’s Corey Main (53.87) also swam in the championship final.

This is China’s first medal in the World Championships for the men’s 100 backstroke.

Women’s 200 Free (SF)

Katie Ledecky will have a chance to defend her 200 free world title from 2015 as she enters Wednesday’s final as the top seed. Ledecky went 1:54.69 less than an hour after she won the gold medal in the 1500. Ledecky leads a quick final ahead of Australia’s Emma McKeon (1:54.99) and Russia’s Veronika Popova (1:55.08).

McKeon is having herself quite a meet after she won the silver in the 100 fly in a new Australian record and anchored the 4×100 free relay silver medal team with a 52.20 anchor split. Can McKeon do the unthinkable and chase down Ledecky?

Italy’s Federica Pellegrini (1:55.58) has the fourth seed into Wednesday’s final as she looks for her sixth straight medal in the 200 at the World Championships. Pellegrini is the current world record holder and has medaled at every Worlds since 2007 in the 200.

Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (1:55.98), Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey (1:56.21), France’s Charlotte Bonnet (1:56.28) and United States’ Leah Smith (1:56.34) will swim in the 200 free final.

Men’s 200 Fly (SF)

Daiya Seto of Japan led the 200 semis on Tuesday night in Budapest with a 1:54.03 to lead the Hungarian duo of Laszlo Cseh (1:54.22) and Tamas Kenderesi (1:54.98) into Wednesday’s final. Cseh and Kenderesi got big cheers in their semi-final as they will certainly get the cheers in the final tomorrow from the Budapest crowd.

South African Chad Le Clos (1:55.09) and American Jack Conger (1:55.30) could also be spoilers for medals in a much anticipated final. Denmark’s Viktor Bromer (1:55.39), Japan’s Masato Sakai (1:55.57) and Bulgaria’s Antani Ivanov (1:55.58) will swim in tomorrow’s final.

Women’s 100 Breast

Lilly King of the USA blazed ahead of the competition in the women’s 100 breast, over-turning Ruta Meilutyte’s World Record en route to gold. Tonight’s 100 breast swim was one of the most anticipated events of the schedule as King went head-to-head with Russian rival Yulia Efimova.

Efimova neared the world record .01 seconds in semi-finals, but it was King who would take gold and the world record. King delivered a sizzling time of 1:04.13 to finish well ahead of the previous 1:04.35, set in 2013 by Meilutyte.

Comparative splits:

• King (2017): 29.80, 34.33 = 1:04.13
• Meilutyte (2013): 29.97, 34.38 = 1:04.35

King’s new record makes her the third American in the last decade to etch her name in the 100 breast world record book, joining the likes of Jessica Hardy and Rebecca Soni. Her world record also doubles as a new American Record.

King’s gold is the fourth American gold medal at the World Championships in the 100 breast joining Kristy Kowal (1998) and Soni (2009, 2011).

Fellow American Katie Meili snuck her way into second place with a swift time of 1:05.03, a personal best for Meili, while Efimova sunk to third and a final time of 1:05.05. Efimova gets her fourth 100 breast World’s medal dating all the way back to her silver in 2009. She was second in 2013 and won gold in 2015.

Meilutyte posted a final time of 1:05.65 for fourth overall, followed by China’s Shi Jinglin and her time of 1:06.43.

Canada’s Kierra Smith (1:06.90), Spain’s Jessica Vall (1:06.95), and Great Britain’s Sarah Vasey (1:07.19) rounded out the top eight.

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Thomas A. Small

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Congratulations

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