Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick
Mallory Comerford opened her world championships in record fashion. In the 200 free prelims, she went 1:52.52 to break Missy Franklin‘s 1:52.74 from the Duel In the Pool in 2015.
The short course world record is 1:50.43 by Sarah Sjostrom.
Comerford’s prelims swim sets up an interesting showdown in the final as Australia’s Ariarne Titmus was seconding 1:52.66.
Russia’s Veronika Andrusenko took the third seed in 1:54.11, followed by Femke Heemskerk of the Netherlands, who finished in 1:54.16.
Also making the finals are Sweden’s Michelle Coleman (1:54.22), Italy’s Federica Pellegrini (1:54.46), China’s Wang Jianjiahe (1:54.63) and Czech Republic’s Barbora Seemanova (1:54.82).
Leah Smith finished 15th (1:55.52).
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That’s awesome
Great, Mallory. Would love to see you get S. S. ‘s World Record!