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FINA World Swimming Championships (Ryan Murphy)
Gwangju 2019
Day Five Heats (Men’s 200 Back)
After a disappointing fourth place finish in the 100 back on Tuesday, USA’s Ryan Murphy rebounded with a solid heats swim in the 200 back at 1:56.61. Murphy is looking for his first world title in the 200 back as the Olympic champion was fifth in Kazan and second in Budapest. Murphy is ahead of reigning world champion Evgeny Rylov of Russia, as the 2017 champion was a 1:56.76. Neither Murphy nor Rylov took a hard stroke in the heats.
Rylov had a lot of momentum heading into today as he was a 51.97 leading off Russia’s mixed medley relay last night which would have won him the gold medal. Rylov is looking to be the first man to repeat in the 200 back at the World Championships since Aaron Peirsol won three titles in succession from 2001-2005.
Great Britain’s Luke Greenbank, who is starting to fill a backstroke void for Great Britain, had a solid morning swim to get the third seed at 1:56.83. Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki, who won silver in 2015, is seeded fourth at 1:56.99. China’s Xu Jiayu, who cruised this morning, is the fifth seed at 1:57.15. Xu defended his 100 back world title earlier in the week over Rylov and Murphy.
Notably, Australia’s Mitch Larkin, who won the world title in 2015, scratched this morning to focus on the 200 IM final tonight. Larkin has shown to have great strength in the 200 IM in the last 12 months and he will try his hand at a medal tonight, coming in as the fifth seed. Australia hasn’t won a medal in the men’s 200 IM at Worlds since Ian Thorpe won silver in 2003.
Hungary’s Adam Telegdy (1:57.30), Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (1:57.60) and Christian Diener (1:57.61) also qualified for the semifinals. Korea’s Lee Juho also qualified for the semifinals, much to the delight of the Korean crowd. He was 12th at 1:57.80. Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys, who won the 200 free final before getting disqualified, is 14th at 1:58.04 while USA’s Jacob Pebley barely scraped in at 1:58.07.
| 1 | MURPHY | Ryan |  USA |
1:56.61 | ||||||
| 2 | RYLOV | Evgeny |  RUS |
1:56.76 | ||||||
| 3 | GREENBANK | Luke |  GBR |
1:56.83 | ||||||
| 4 | KAWECKI | Radoslaw |  POL |
1:56.99 | ||||||
| 5 | XU | Jiayu |  CHN |
1:57.15 | ||||||
| 6 | TELEGDY | Adam |  HUN |
1:57.20 | ||||||
| 7 | IRIE | Ryosuke |  JPN |
1:57.60 | ||||||
| 8 | DIENER | Christian |  GER |
1:57.61 | ||||||
| 8 | SKIERKA | Jakub | POL |
1:57.61 | ||||||
| 10 | RESTIVO | Matteo |  ITA |
1:57.67 | ||||||
| 11 | MARTIN | Daniel |  ROU |
1:57.76 | ||||||
| 12 | LEE | Juho |  KOR |
1:57.80 | ||||||
| 13 | TARASEVICH | Grigory | RUS |
1:57.99 | ||||||
| 14 | MITYUKOV | Roman |  SUI |
1:58.04 | ||||||
| 14 | RAPSYS | Danas |  LTU |
1:58.04 | ||||||
| 16 | PEBLEY | Jacob | USA |
1:58.07 |
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Stephanie Rice won medals at Melbourne 2007, Rome 2009, Shanghai 2011 in the IM if I’m not wrong.
Yes you are. But I should have clarified men’s 200 IM.