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- Women’s 50 breast<\/li>\n
- Men’s 50 free<\/li>\n
- Women’s 200 fly<\/li>\n
- Women’s 50 free<\/li>\n
- Men’s 800 free relay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
LIVE STREAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
LIVE RESULTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Women’s 50 breast<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Photo Courtesy: Xinhua\/Yang Lei<\/p><\/div>\n
Olympic gold medalist Ruta Meilutyte, fresh off the plane from winning a pair of title at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, threw down a 30.73 to lead all qualifying in the sprint breaststroke event. \u00a0She still has time to make up to clear her world-leading 29.90 from the Sette Colli Trophy meet, but she’s definitely in the mix for the title after shoving off jet lag to make semis.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands’ Moniek Nijhuis (30.75), Sweden’s Jennie Johansson (30.79) and Germany’s Dorothea Brandt (30.82) also cleared 31 seconds to round out the top four.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s Sycerika McMahon (31.02), Ukraine’s Mariya Liver (31.13), Denmark’s Rikke Moeller Pedersen (31.21), Iceland’s Hilda Luthersdottir (31.21) and Czech’s Petra Chocova (31.25) were among the top half of the semifinalists.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni (31.36), Czech’s Martina Moravcikova (31.45), Israel’s Amit Ivri (31.50), Ireland’s Fiona Doyle (31.63), Finland’s Veera Kivirinta (31.71), Belgium’s Fanny Lecluyse (31.84) and Germany’s Caroline Ruhnau (31.85) made up the rest of the semifinalists in what proved to be a clean set of qualifying with no two-per-country rule washouts.<\/p>\n
Men’s 50 free<\/h1>\n
Italy’s Marco Orsi and Russia’s Oleg Tikhobaev led the way in the men’s splash-and-dash with matching 22.18s for the top seed as plenty of the other higher seeded sprinters had some problems during preliminary heats.<\/p>\n
Russia’s depth bumped a pair of all-star sprinters out of semis again with the two-per-country rule as Sergey Fesikov (9th, 22.33) and the Sizzling Siberian Vlad Morozov (12th, 22.35) both missed semis. \u00a0Morozov is the third-ranked swimmer in the world with a 21.55 from Russian Nationals, while Fesikov is ranked 19th with a 22.03 from that meet as well. \u00a0That’s a lot of firepower to miss out on the evening’s swims, and that’s Morozov’s second miss after having the same situation happen in the 100 free.<\/p>\n
Greece’s Kristian Gkolomeev (22.19), France’s Florent Manaudou (22.20), Italy’s Luca Dotto (22.21), Great Britain’s Ben Proud (22.26), Poland’s Konrad Czerniak (22.26), Russia’s Andrey Grechin (22.29), Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (22.33), and Hungary’s Dominik Kozma (22.33) were among the top half of the qualifiers into the semis.<\/p>\n
Hungary’s Krisztian Takacs (22.41), Ukraine’s Andriy Govorov (22.44), France’s Fabien Gilot (22.47), Belgium’s Francois Heersbrandt (22.51), Belgium’s Jasper Aerents (22.60), and Romania’s Marius Radu (22.68) also moved on through to the semis.<\/p>\n
Women’s 200 fly<\/h1>\n
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Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia clocked in with a 2:08.41 for the top swim out of this morning’s prelims, as a total of four swimmers turned in 2:08s during qualifying. \u00a0Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos (2:08.73), Switzerland’s Martina Van Berkel (2:08.81) and the Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu (2:08.91) also made it under 2:09.<\/p>\n
Belmonte Garcia is ranked second in the world with a 2:06.33 from Spanish Nationals, and is the favorite during semis tonight. Hosszu is the only other swimmer out of the top four in the top 15 of the world this year with a 2:07.53 from the Sette Colli Trophy meet. Hosszu is looking to add to her three golds and one bronze from this week already.<\/p>\n
Belmonte Garcia’s Splits:<\/h2>\n
29.79 (5) 1:02.85 (3)
\n33.06 1:35.59 (2)
\n32.74 2:08.41
\n32.82<\/p>\nSpain’s Judit Ignacio Sorribes (2:09.21), Germany’s Franziska Hentke (2:10.60), Slovenia’s Anja Klinar (2:10.63), Great Britain’s Aimee Willmott (2:11.56), France’s Lara Grangeon (2:11.64), Italy’s Alessia Polieri (2:11.77), Great Britain’s Jemma Lowe (2:11.86), Israel’s Keren Siebner (2:12.19), Italy’s Stefania Pirozzi (2:12.36), France’s Marie Wattel (2:12.68), Switzerland’s Danielle Villars (2:12.70) and Russia’s Yana Martynova (2:13.66) will also compete in the semis.<\/p>\n
Hungary’s Evelyn Verraszto lost an eighth-place 2:10.97 to the two-per-country rule.<\/p>\n
Women’s 50 free<\/h1>\n
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