World Cup, Moscow: Day Two Prelims

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MOSCOW, Russia, November 3. THE second day of short course meter prelims racing is complete at the World Cup stop in Moscow.

Women's 100 free
Denmark's Jeanette Ottesen led the way with a 54.28, while Veronika Popova (54.81) and Margarita Nesterova (54.86) finished second and third.

Sweden's Michelle Coleman (55.11), Natalia Lovtsova (55.23), Anastasia Aksenova (55.23), Svetlana Fedulova (55.31) and Ukraine's Darya Stepanyuk (55.45) rounded out the top eight.

Men's 200 free
Evgeny Lagunov jumped to second in the world rankings with a top time of 1:44.03. Only Takeshi Matsuda has been faster this year with a 1:43.93 from Tokyo. Artem Lobuzov took second in 1:46.20, while Mikhail Polishchuk finished third in 1:46.36.

Poland's Pawel Korzeniowski (1:46.86), Alexander Sukhorukov (1:46.99), Danila Izotov (1:47.03), Andrey Ushakov (1:47.63) and Vitaly Syrnikov (1:47.84) made up the rest of the finale.

Women's 50 breast
Yuliya Efimova ripped off a 30.36, just short of her top-ranked season best of 30.16 from Berlin. Valentina Artemyeva claimed second overall in 31.42, while Germany's Kerstin Vogel placed third in 31.57.

Ekaterina Baklakova (31.60), Daria Deeva (31.61), Ekaterina Burdina (32.07), Anna Kuzmicheva (32.11) and Natalia Geraskina (32.19) picked up the other transfer spots to finals.

Men's 100 breast
Aleksandr Triznov (59.63), Stanislav Lakhtyukhov (59.64), Maksim Shcherbakov (59.84) and Ukraine's Andriy Kovalenko (59.86) cleared 1:00 for the top four spots.

Mikhail Lapshin (1:00.01), Grigory Falko (1:00.12), Brazil's Joao Gomes Jr. (1:00.17) and Brazil's Raphael Rodrigues (1:00.24) earned fourth through eighth.

Men's 100 fly
Nikolay Skvortsov (52.69), Nikita Konovalov (52.78) and Evgeny Korotyshkin (52.82) made up the top three in prelims.

Germany's Steffen Deibler (52.93), South Africa's Lyndon Ferns (52.98), Ivan Udalov (53.23), Alexander Spiridonov (53.45) and Alexander Vorobyev (53.49) grabbed the rest of the championship field spots.

Women's 100 back
Kseniya Moskvina touched out Ukraine's Daryna Zevina, 59.60 to 59.63, for the top seed. Japan's Marie Kamimura (59.77) and Maria Gromova (59.96) all cleared 1:00 for the top four.

Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry (1:00.06), Japan's Mai Harada (1:00.50), Anastasia Zueva (1:00.60) and Alexandra Papusha (1:00.85) also made the championship final.

Men's 50 back
Vitaly Borisov topped prelims in 23.98, while Stanislav Donets (24.07), Arkady Vyatchanin (24.44) and Sergey Makov (24.45) rounded out the top four.

Artem Dubovskoy (24.55), Mikhail Noskov (24.82), Anton Butymov (24.89) and Germany's Christian Diener (25.10) earned the other lanes in the finale.

Women's 200 fly
USA's Elaine Breeden (2:10.63) and Jasmine Tosky (2:11.16) went 1-2 in qualifying with South Africa's Mandy Loots (2:11.24) and Anastasia Lyazeva (2:13.40) earned third and fourth.

Anna Kiseleva (2:13.49), Ukraine's Anna Yevchak (2:13.51), Daria Shmakova (2:15.27) and USA's Celina Li (2:15.66) pocketed the other championship heat lanes.

Men's 200 IM
Dmitry Zhilin (1:59.06) and Alexander Tikhonov (1:59.46) finished first and second with Dmitry Gorbunov (2:00.32) and China's Sun Han (2:00.44) taking third and fourth in qualifying.

Sergey Kashperskiy (2:00.61), Maxim Redkov (2:01.17) and Brazil's Thiago Pereira (2:01.56) touched fifth through seventh. South Africa's Darian Townsend and Ivan Pavlov set up a swimoff with matching 2:01.60s for eighth place.

Women's 400 free
Elena Sokolova earned the top seed with a 4:11.56, while Ukraine's Valeriya Podlisna touched second in 4:12.85. Alexandra Veselova (4:13.94) and Elizaveta Gorshkova (4:15.18) placed third and fourth.

USA's Catherine Breed (4:17.13), Anna Guseva (4:17.48), Regina Sych (4:17.97) and USA's Allison Brown (4:19.07) also made the championship field.

Men's 50 free
Evgeny Lagunov checked in with a 21.75 for the top seed, while Sergey Fesikov placed second in 21.77. Nikita Konovalov (21.88), Vitaly Syrnikov (22.08) and Andrey Arbuzov (22.39) placed third through fifth for Russia.

Ukraine's Andriy Govorov (22.40) and Albert Maltsev (22.41) earned sixth and seventh. South Africa's Roland Schoeman and Oleg Tikhobaev set up another swimoff with matching 22.48s.

Women's 200 breast
Japan's Keiko Fukudome paced prelims with a time of 2:25.18, while Vitalina Simonova (2:27.15) and Olga Detenyuk (2:27.93) took second and third.

Ekaterina Vinokurova (2:28.06), Valentina Artemyeva (2:28.69) and Anastasia Chaun (2:28.93) placed fourth through sixth. Japan's Kanako Watanabe (2:29.59) and Ekaterina Baklakova (2:29.95) qualified seventh and eighth.

Women's 100 IM
USA's Julia Smit finished first in the sprint medley with a 1:01.14, while The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder earned second in 1:01.75. Daria Belyakina (1:02.19), Kristina Kochetkova (1:02.48) and Ekaterina Andreeva (1:02.60) claimed third through fifth.

Aleksandra Musienko (1:02.83), USA's Jasmine Tosky (1:02.86) and Polina Kiseleva (1:03.01) also made the finale.

Men's 200 back
Arkady Vyatchanin (1:54.36) and Anton Anchin (1:54.73) posted 1:54s for first and second. Poland's Radoslaw Kawecki (1:55.00) and Artem Dubovskoy (1:55.21) took third and fourth in prelims.

Japan's Kosuke Hagino (1:55.27), Colombia's Omar Pinzon (1:55.82), South Africa's George Du Rand (1:55.99) and Germany's Christian Diener (1:57.96) finished fifth through eighth.

Women's 50 fly
Sweden's Therese Alshammar (26.15) and Denmark's Jeanette Ottesen (26.20) finished first and second. Svetlana Fedulova (26.98) and USA's Elaine Breeden (27.10) took third and fourth.

Irina Bespalova (27.22), The Netherlands' Hinkelien Schreuder (27.32), Yulia Mantseva (27.40) and Ukraine's Nadiya Koba (27.52) grabbed the rest of the championship field spots.

Day Two Prelims Results

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