{"id":141523,"date":"2015-07-06T02:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=141523"},"modified":"2015-07-06T05:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:35:24","slug":"2015-world-university-games-day-3-finals-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2015-world-university-games-day-3-finals-live-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 World University Games: Day 3 Finals Live Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everything you need to follow along with finals\u00a0live during the World University Games. Hit refresh for the latest coverage.<\/p>\n

Women’s 1500 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Italy’s Martina Rita Caramignoli<\/strong> dominated the women’s 1500-meter free with a top time of 16:06.71.<\/p>\n

That swim shot Caramignoli to sixth in the world rankings, and finished just a few seconds back of Stephanie Peacock’s<\/strong> meet record of 16:04.44.<\/p>\n

1500 Free World Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]
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USA’s Lindsay Vrooman<\/strong> raced her way to silver with a time of 16:13.85 to take 15th in the world rankings. That’s a big time drop for Vrooman, who came into the meet with a 16:22.71 personal best from the 2013 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Kiah Melverton<\/strong> took bronze with a time of 16:21.39 to move to 19th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

China’s Li Xuanxu<\/strong> (16:21.63), Japan’s Yuna Kikuchi<\/strong> (16:31.11), Japan’s Asari Wada<\/strong> (16:32.55), USA’s Kathryn Campbell<\/strong> (16:41.82) and Czech’s Martina Elhenicka<\/strong> (16:44.95) also competed in the finale.<\/p>\n

Men’s 200 fly semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pair of 1:55s led the way in semis of the men’s 200-meter fly this evening.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Evgeny Koptelov<\/strong> raced his way to the top seed out of the first semifinal\u00a0with a 1:55.58 to move to 10th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Masayuki Umemoto<\/strong> followed with an 11th-ranked time of 1:55.72 in the second semifinal.<\/p>\n

That duo could take down Pawel Korzeniowski’s<\/strong> meet record of 1:54.30 set in 2009.<\/p>\n

France’s Jordan Coelho<\/strong> (1:56.56) and Italy’s Francesco Pavone<\/strong> (1:56.67) qualified third and fourth.<\/p>\n

Japan’s\u00a0Yuya Yajima<\/strong> (1:56.74), USA’s Andrew Seliskar<\/strong> (1:56.84), Russia’s Aleksandr Pribytok<\/strong> (1:56.92) and Australia’s Nicholas Brown<\/strong> (1:57.08) also made the finale.<\/p>\n

Women’s 200 IM semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

A trio of swimmers put up 2:12s during semis of the women’s 200-meter IM.<\/p>\n

USA’s Madisyn Cox<\/strong> clocked her second lifetime best of the day with a 2:12.15 to lead everyone. \u00a0That swim bettered her prelim time of 2:12.79 that smashed her lifetime best of 2:14.23 from last summer’s nationals.<\/p>\n

Cox moved to 18th in the world with her swim, and is just off Ava Ohlgren’s<\/strong> 2009 meet record of 2:12.07.<\/p>\n

China’s Zhang Sishi<\/strong> qualified second in 2:12.55, while Australia’s Ellen Fullerton<\/strong> turned in a third-seed time of 2:12.94.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Aisling Scott<\/strong> (2:14.08), Czech’s Barbora Zavadova<\/strong> (2:14.19), South Korea’s Seoyeong Kim<\/strong> (2:14.37), Italy’s Luisa Trombetti<\/strong> (2:14.42) and Japan’s Miho Takahashi<\/strong> (2:14.58) will also vie for the championship gold in finals.<\/p>\n

USA’s Celina Li<\/strong> wound up 11th overall in 2:15.68.<\/p>\n

Women’s 100 breast finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan’s Mina Matsushima<\/strong> had just too much coming home for USA’s Lilly King<\/strong> to handle as Matsushima overhauled the field with a 35.01 down the stretch. Matsushima initially turned in seventh with a 31.75 at the 50.<\/p>\n

Matsushima won gold with a time of 1:06.76 to move to fifth in the world rankings, and is the second-fastest woman from Japan behind Kanako Watanabe’s<\/strong> 1:06.45 from Japanese Nationals.<\/p>\n

King, meanwhile, cracked 1:07 for the first time with a 1:06.93 to take silver after going out in 31.26. That swim pushed her to seventh in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

100 Breast World Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]
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Ireland’s Fiona Doyle<\/strong> raced her way to bronze with a time of 1:07.15. That swim pushed her to 13th in the world rankings in what proved to be a fast finale.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Ilaria Scarcela<\/strong> (1:07.62), Australia’s Jessica Hansen<\/strong> (1:07.80), Ukraine’s Mariia Liver<\/strong> (1:07.94), Italy’s Martina Carraro<\/strong> (1:08.07) and Russia’s Natalia Ivaneeva<\/strong> (1:08.22) rounded out the finale.<\/p>\n

Men’s 200 breast semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of the more stacked events coming into Gwangju, Great Britain’s Craig Benson<\/strong> looks to be standing up to his medal favorite status after leading qualifying in 2:10.18.<\/p>\n

That time is off his ninth-ranked season best of 2:09.32 from British Nationals, but is more than enough to put him into the top seed in finals.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Kazuki Kohinata<\/strong> qualified second in 2:10.63, off his 10th-ranked season best of 2:09.51 from the Japan Open.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> snared the third seed in 2:10.95, while eighth-ranked Josh Prenot<\/strong> (with a 2:09.30 from the Arena Pro Swim Series) qualified fourth in 2:11.04.<\/p>\n

Unless the top swimmers are keeping their powder dry for finals, it’s unlikely any will take down Igor Borysik’s<\/strong> meet record of 2:08.73 from 2009.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Luca Pizzini<\/strong> (2:11.26), Italy’s Flavio Bizzarri<\/strong> (2:11.68), Great Britain’s Calum Tait<\/strong> (2:11.84) and Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandin<\/strong> (2:11.98) also earned spots in the finale.<\/p>\n

Men’s 200 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Red, White and Blue went 1-2 in the men’s 200-meter free as Reed Malone<\/strong> and Clay Youngquist<\/strong> swept the top of the podium.<\/p>\n

Malone clocked in with a 1:47.15 for the gold medal, jumping to 16th in the world rankings in the process. \u00a0That swim cleared his previous best of 1:47.41 from last summer’s nationals.<\/p>\n

Youngquist, meanwhile, took home silver with a time of 1:47.91. That’s just barely his lifetime best, clipping the 1:47.93 he also clocked last year at summer nationals.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Jacob Hansford<\/strong> placed third overall with a time of 1:48.29.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Naito Ehara<\/strong> (1:48.41), Italy’s Gianluca Maglia<\/strong> (1:48.54), Japan’s Reo Sakata<\/strong> (1:48.99), China’s Qian Zhiyong<\/strong> (1:49.06) and Switzerland’s Alexandre Haldemann<\/strong> (1:49.13) closed out the championship heat.<\/p>\n

Women’s 100 back semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada’s Kylie Masse<\/strong> looks to be determined to upset the vaunted U.S. backstroke dynamic duo of Elizabeth Pelton<\/strong> and Rachel Bootsma<\/strong> as she picked up the top seed for the second session in a row ahead of the pair.<\/p>\n

Masse clocked a time of 1:00.26 to move to 16th in the world rankings, bettering her 1:00.50 from the Canadian Team Trials earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Bootsma, meanwhile, took the second seed into finals with a 1:00.64, while Pelton won the first semifinal with a third-seeded effort of 1:00.92. \u00a0Italy’s Carlotta Zofkova<\/strong> also joined them under 1:01 with a fourth-seeded 1:00.94.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Polina Lapshina<\/strong> (1:01.23), Kazakhstan’s Yekaterina Rudenko<\/strong> (1:01.34), Czech’s Simona Baumrtova<\/strong> (1:01.39) and Australia’s Holly Barratt<\/strong> (1:01.71) will also swim in the championship heat.<\/p>\n

Men’s 200 IM finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an incredibly close finale, the men’s 200-meter IM ran out of room to decide the gold medal as USA’s Josh Prenot<\/strong> and Australia’s Justin James<\/strong> shared the gold medal in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

Prenot and James put up matching times of 1:58.38 to share the gold as both moved up to eighth in the world with their swims.<\/p>\n

It took a ridiculously fast breaststroke split of 32.83 for Prenot to even have a chance at the tie as he went from seventh to third in the pack after the breaststroke.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Keita Sunama<\/strong> clinched the bronze with a time of 1:58.45 to tie Dan Wallace for 10th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Takeharu Fujimori<\/strong> just missed the podium with a fourth-place time of 1:58.85.<\/p>\n

There was a clear difference between the top four and the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Travis Mahoney<\/strong> (2:00.16), Great Britain’s Max Litchfield<\/strong> (2:00.25), USA’s Kyle Whitaker<\/strong> (2:00.67) and Russia’s Dmitrii Gorbunov<\/strong> (2:01.54) comprised the rest of the finale.<\/p>\n

Women’s 100 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Stars and Stripes ripped off another freestyle 1-2 as Shannon Vreeland<\/strong> and Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong> captured the top two spots in the 100 free.<\/p>\n

Vreeland, and Olympic gold\u00a0medalist, use that extended experience to top the finale in 54.39. She had the fastest closing speed by a large margin with a 28.07 on the way home.<\/p>\n

Weitzeil turned in a silver-winning time of 54.53, while Australia’s Ami Matsuo<\/strong> joined them on the podium and under 55 seconds with a third-place time of 54.94.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Yui Yamane<\/strong> (55.07), Russia’s Margarita Nesterova<\/strong> (55.07), Slovakia’s Katarina Listopadova<\/strong> (55.09), Russia’s Rozaliya Nasretdinova<\/strong> (55.23) and Italy’s Laura Letrari<\/strong> (55.46) closed out the rest of the championship heat.<\/p>\n

Men’s 50 back semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan’s Junya Hasegawa<\/strong> topped the men’s sprint backstroke after a long delay.<\/p>\n

Hasegawa clocked in with a time of 25.19 to move into a 19th-ranked tie with Daniel Orzechowski<\/strong> in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

The men’s 50 back semis faced a significant delay as Russia’s Nikita Ulyanov<\/strong> tried to swim in the wrong semifinal and was pulled from semifinal 1 as Japan’s Kosuke Matsui<\/strong> was placed into the correct heat.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Matteo Milli<\/strong> earned the second seed in 25.27, while Ulyanov shook off the controversy with a third-seeded time of 25.43. \u00a0Matsui didn’t react as well with a 13th-place time of 25.90.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Stefano Pizzamiglio<\/strong> (25.52), South Korea’s Seonkwan Park<\/strong> (25.54), Indonesia’s Gede Sudartawa<\/strong> (25.55), South Korea’s Heewoong Shin<\/strong> (25.65) and Brazil’s Henrique Martins<\/strong> (25.75) grabbed the rest of the spots into the finals.<\/p>\n

Men’s 400 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an epic battle, Great Britain’s Jay Lelliott<\/strong> pipped Australia’s Jack McLoughlin<\/strong> at the wall in the middle distance event.<\/p>\n

Lelliott, who took silver in the 800 free earlier this week, grabbed gold with a time of 3:48.84 as McLoughlin settled for silver with a 3:48.88.<\/p>\n

The duo traded shots throughout the race with each surging at various moments of the race.<\/p>\n

USA’s Reed Malone<\/strong>, fresh off a win in the men’s 200-meter free, completing an epic double with a bronze-winning time of 3:50.13.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Sergii Frolov<\/strong>, the 800 free victor, wound up fourth in 3:50.99.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Damiano Lestingi<\/strong> (3:51.12), Russia’s Aleksandr Fedorov<\/strong> (3:51.89), Japan’s Naito Ehara<\/strong> (3:53.56) and South Korea’s Seungho Baek<\/strong> (3:55.26) rounded out the championship finale.<\/p>\n

2015 World University Games, Day 3 Finals – Results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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