Turkey’s Viktoria Gunes leads the competition in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke going into tonight’s semi-finals. Gunes posted a time of 30.73 to make her the only competitor to go under the 31-second mark in prelims.
Great Britain’s Katie Matts and Sweden’s Sophie Hansson are tied for second going into tonight’s semi-finals after both posted a 31.48.
Nikol Popov of the USA claimed the third-place seed with a 31.69, while Japan’s Yukino Miyasaka grabbed a close fifth with a 31.76.
Kennedy Lohman of the USA will join teammate Popov after posting a 32.00. Australia’s Ella Bond grabbed seventh with a 32.15, while Russia’s Mariia Astashkina and Hungary’s Szonja Szokol tied for eighth with a 32.40.
Japan’s Runa Imai (32.42), Slovenia’s Tina Celik (32.51), Germany’s Laura Kelsch (32.53), Russia’s Daria Chikunova (32.56), Italy’s Giulia Verona (32.66), Slovakia’s Andrea Podmanikova (32.66), and Australia’s Calypso Sheridan (32.73) round out the top sixteen.
