Kelsi Dahlia Posts Sixth Fastest 50 Fly in the World in Mesa Shootout

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Tonight’s Women’s 50 Fly Quarterfinals started with Alyssa Marsh, Mallory Comerford, Farida Osman, Kelsi Dahlia, Louise Hansson, Aliena Schmidtke, Hellen Moffitt and Sarah Gibson as the top eight competitors.

In the first round, Dahlia (26.12), Hansson (26.26), Osman (26.37) and Moffitt (26.39) charged their way into the top four. Dahlia was just off her prelims swim of 25.97 which currently sits eighth in the world rankings. Hansson raced to a now twelfth-ranked swim, as Osman is now thirteenth and Moffitt moved up to fifteenth.

Schmidtke (26.52), Comerford (26.65), Marsh (26.99) and Gibson (27.12) rounded out the heat.

Roughly ten minutes later, Dahlia took the heat in 26.18 while Osman earned the second spot in the finals in 26.30.

In the third race in about seventeen minutes, Dahlia used her underwaters to help her surge out front. She posted a huge 25.74 bumping her up to sixth in the world rankings. She was only .26 off her own American Record in this event.

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