{"id":141765,"date":"2015-07-07T02:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=141765"},"modified":"2015-07-07T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T14:04:59","slug":"2015-world-university-games-day-4-finals-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2015-world-university-games-day-4-finals-live-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 World University Games: Day 4 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 400 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

USA’s Leah Smith<\/strong> was unable to replicate her Universiade record of 4:04.66<\/a> from prelims, but she still managed to lead an American 1-2 in the middle distance event.<\/p>\n

Smith hit the wall in 4:05.29 for the win with a time that still stands in the top 10 in the world even after her transcendent effort this morning.<\/p>\n

USA’s Lindsay Vrooman<\/strong> turned in a silver-winning time of 4:07.28 to move to 19th in the world rankings. That’s a personal best, beating her 4:07.82 from last summer’s nationals.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Martina De Memme<\/strong> finished third overall with a time of $:08.95.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Kiah Melverton<\/strong> (4:12.92), Poland’s Justyna Burska<\/strong> (4:13.24), Japan’s Asami Chida<\/strong> (4:13.38), Italy’s Martina Rita Caramignoli<\/strong> (4:15.01) and Canada’s Barbara Rojas-Jardin<\/strong> (4:17.43) rounded out the finale.<\/p>\n

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

Japan responded in the women’s 200-meter breast with a 1-2 of its own.<\/p>\n

Keiko Fukudome<\/strong> posted the top qualifying time with a 2:25.80, just off her 19th-ranked season best of 2:25.54 from Japanese Nationals.<\/p>\n

Teammate Reona Aoki<\/strong> clocked in with a second-seeded 2:27.04, well back of her 17th-ranked season best of 2:25.43 also from Japanese Nationals.<\/p>\n

The duo will have a tough time challenging Rie Kaneto’s<\/strong> meet record of 2:22.32 set in 2009.<\/p>\n

USA’s Andrea Cottrell<\/strong> broke through the 2:28 mark for the first time as she posted a third-seeded 2:27.27. \u00a0That swim beat her preliminary time of 2:28.65 that stood as her lifetime best.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s Olivia White<\/strong> (2:27.45), USA’s Molly Hannis<\/strong> (2:27.72), Czech’s Martina Moravcikova<\/strong> (2:27.73), Italy’s Francesca Fangio<\/strong> (2:28.12) and South Korea’s Suyeon Back<\/strong> (2:28.37) also made their way into the finale to battle for the title.<\/p>\n

Women’s 200 IM finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

China’s Zhang Sishi<\/strong> had just too much of a freestyle for USA’s Madisyn Cox<\/strong> as Zhang claimed the women’s 200-meter IM gold.<\/p>\n

Although Cox withstood a challenge from Australia’s Ellen Fullerton<\/strong> earlier in the heat, she was unable to hold off Zhang’s freestyle leg of 30.99 as Zhang won in 2:12.31.<\/p>\n

Cox fell off her semi time of 2:12.15 to take silver in 2:12.77 as Ava Ohlgren’s<\/strong> meet record of 2:12.07 from 2009 surprisingly remained intact.<\/p>\n

Fullerton closed out the podium with a third-place time of 2:13.48.<\/p>\n

Australia’s Aisling Scott<\/strong> (2:13.67), South Korea’s Seoyeong Kim<\/strong> (2:13.81), Czech’s Barbora Zavadova<\/strong> (2:14.37), Italy’s Luisa Trombetti<\/strong> (2:14.46) and Japan’s Miho Takahashi<\/strong> (2:15.57) placed fourth through eighth in the championship field.<\/p>\n

Men’s 100 free semis<\/strong><\/p>\n

USA’s Jack Conger<\/strong> turned in a lifetime best in the men’s 100-meter semis as he dominated the field.<\/p>\n

Conger threw down a 49.04, bettering his previous best of 49.28 from last summer’s nationals.<\/p>\n

Conger has some work to do if he wants to challenge Vlad Morozov’s<\/strong> meet record of 47.62 from 2013.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s Henrique Martins<\/strong>, the 50 fly winner, and Italy’s Marco Belotti<\/strong>\u00a0tied for the second seed into finals with 49.37s<\/p>\n

USA’s Seth Stubblefield<\/strong> (49.52), Russia’s Oleg Tikhobaev<\/strong> (49.81), New Zealand’s Daniel Hunter<\/strong> (49.82), Turkey’s Kemal Gurdal<\/strong> (49.95) and Japan’s Toru Maruyama<\/strong> (50.02) claimed the other spots in the finale.<\/p>\n

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

In one of the deepest events of the meet, USA’s Josh Prenot<\/strong> had just enough to clip Japan’s Kazuki Kohinata<\/strong> at the wall for the title.<\/p>\n

Prenot vaulted into a sixth-ranked tie in the world rankings with a 2:08.90 for the win. \u00a0That swim matched Ross Murdoch’s<\/strong> 2:08.90 from British Nationals, and lowered Prenot’s lifetime best of 2:09.30 from the Charlotte stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series.<\/p>\n

Prenot’s time just missed Igor Borysik’s<\/strong> meet mark of 2:08.73 from 2009.<\/p>\n

Kohinata charged his way to silver in a time of 2:09.08 to move from fifth to second in the final 50 with a 32.82 split. That swim put Kohinata into ninth in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s Craig Benson<\/strong> rounded out the podium with a third-place time of 2:09.10 to grab 10th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> (2:09.97), Great Britain’s Calum Tait<\/strong> (2:10.57), Italy’s Luca Pizzini<\/strong> (2:11.17), Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandin<\/strong> (2:11.34) and Italy’s Flavio Bizzarri<\/strong> (2:11.70) also challenged for the title.<\/p>\n

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

Italy’s Elena Di Liddo<\/strong>, the pre-meet favorite, followed through on the hype with the top seed out of semis.<\/p>\n

Di Liddo, who is ranked sixth in the world in the 100 fly with a 57.75 from the Sette Colli Trophy meet, posted a 58.21 for the top seed.<\/p>\n

Di Liddo will likely take a run at Katerine Savard’s<\/strong> meet record of 57.63 from 2013 during finals tomorrow.<\/p>\n

China’s Zhou Yilin<\/strong> (58.49) and Lu Ying<\/strong> (58.54) qualified second and third. \u00a0Lu has been faster this year with a 57.96 from Chinese Nationals.<\/p>\n

Slovakia’s Katarina Listopadova<\/strong> (58.65), USA’s Felicia Lee<\/strong> (58.93), Russia’s Svetlana Chimrova<\/strong> (59.01), Japan’s Rino Hosoda<\/strong> (59.05) and Canada’s Samantha Corea<\/strong> (59.26) picked up the rest of the transfer spots into finals.<\/p>\n

USA’s Christina Bechtel<\/strong> took 10th overall in 59.47.<\/p>\n

Men’s 50 back finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan’s Junya Hasegawa<\/strong> turned in a winning time of 25.25 in the sprint backstroke finale here in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

That swim is just off his 18th-ranked season best of 25.19.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Stefano Pizzamiglio<\/strong> claimed silver overall in a time of 25.43, while Russia’s Nikita Ulyanov<\/strong> grabbed bronze in 25.49.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Seonkwan Park<\/strong> just missed the podium with a fourth-place time of 25.56.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s Henrique Martins<\/strong> (25.57), Italy’s Matteo Milli<\/strong> (25.61), Indonesia’s Gede Sudartawa<\/strong> (25.66) and South Korea’s Heewoong Shin<\/strong> (25.88) placed fifth through eighth in the finale.<\/p>\n

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

Canada’s Kylie Masse<\/strong> vaulted herself into the top 10 in the world in the 100-meter back after she found an extra gear down the stretch to hold off a pair of hard-charging Americans.<\/p>\n

Masse surged her way to a 59.97 for the win to move to ninth in the world rankings, up from 16th overall with a 1:00.26.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s effort nearly cracked Anastasia Zueva’s<\/strong> meet record of 59.83 from 2013.<\/p>\n

USA’s Elizabeth Pelton<\/strong> overtook teammate Rachel Bootsma<\/strong> for silver, 1:00.65 to 1:00.78, in what proved to be a pretty high profile finale.<\/p>\n

Czech’s Simona Baumrtova<\/strong> (1:00.92), Italy’s Carlotta Zofkova<\/strong> (1:00.95), Kazakhstan’s Yekaterina Rudenko<\/strong> (1:01.61), Russia’s Polina Lapshina<\/strong> (1:02.18) and Australia’s Holly Barratt<\/strong> (1:02.37) also swam in finals.<\/p>\n

Men’s 200 fly finals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia’s Evgeny Koptelov<\/strong> surged from fourth to first in the final 50 to put up one of the fastest 200 fly swims of the year.<\/p>\n

Koptelov dropped the hammer to win in 1:54.79. \u00a0That swim tied him with Tamas Kenderesi<\/strong> for second in the world rankings, and just missed Pawel Korzeniowski’s<\/strong> meet record of 1:54.30 from 2009.<\/p>\n

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Japan’s Yuya Yajima<\/strong> picked up silver in 1:55.73 to move into a 12th-ranked tie with Joe Schooling<\/strong>, while Masayuki Umemoto grabbed bronze in 1:56.12 for 18th in the world.<\/p>\n

Italy’s Francesco Pavone<\/strong> (1:56.18), France’s Jordan Coelho<\/strong> (1:56.47), Australia’s Nicholas Brown<\/strong> (1:57.37) and Russia’s Aleksandr Pribytok<\/strong> (1:57.63) placed fourth through seventh.<\/p>\n

USA’s Andrew Seliskar<\/strong>, a pre-meet favorite with a season best of 1:55.92 coming into the meet, fell apart in the final 50 meters.<\/p>\n

Seliskar led the field with a 1:24.80 at the 150-meter mark, but wound up with a 32.87 final split to finish eighth in 1:57.67.<\/p>\n

According to Swimming Canada’s Tom Rushton<\/strong>, Seliskar’s goggles broke prior to finals and he was unable to secure another set.<\/p>\n

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@SwimmingWorld<\/a> @David_Rieder<\/a> his goggles broke before the race – TeamUSA tried to hold the start but it was not happening.<\/p>\n

— Tom Rushton (@coach_rushton) July 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n