{"id":147399,"date":"2015-08-02T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=147399"},"modified":"2015-08-02T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T16:27:10","slug":"2015-fina-world-championships-swimming-day-1-finals-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2015-fina-world-championships-swimming-day-1-finals-live-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 FINA World Championships, Swimming: Day 1 Finals Live Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to follow along with finals\u00a0live during the 2015 FINA World Championships. Hit refresh for the latest coverage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s 100 fly semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, world-record holder<strong> Dana Vollmer<\/strong> invited <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> to join her under 56 seconds in the women&#8217;s 100-meter fly and Sjostrom did just that during semis with a world record at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarasjo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sarasjo<\/a>, it&#39;s lonely under 56! Wishing you all the 55.99 luck \ud83d\ude09 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kazan2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kazan2015<\/a>!! I want to race you for the record in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rio2016?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rio2016<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dana Vollmer (@danavollmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danavollmer\/status\/627531313961005056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Sjostrom came home in a stunning 29.28 to set the world record with a time of 55.74. \u00a0That time smashed Vollmer&#8217;s previous record of 55.98 set at the 2012 London Olympics as she became just the second woman under 56 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Splits<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Sjostrom has been toying with a sub-56 swim ever since clocking a world record 56.05 in 2009. \u00a0She also clocked a 56.04 at the Sette Colli Trophy meet earlier this summer, but tonight was her first time to break the world record.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s <strong>Jeanette Ottesen<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jeanette-ottesen-marco-loughran-injured-during-road-rage-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">shaking off the after-effects of a broken finger due to a road rage attack<\/a>, qualified second in 57.04 to move to better her season best of 57.15.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s <strong>Lu Ying<\/strong> raced her way to the third seed in finals with a 57.36, while Canada&#8217;s <strong>Katerine Savard<\/strong> qualified fourth in 57.52.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> (57.59), China&#8217;s<strong> Chen Xinyi<\/strong> (57.63) and Germany&#8217;s <strong>Alexandra Wenk<\/strong> (57.77) also secured spots in finals with sub 58-second swims.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s<strong> Noemie Thomas<\/strong> and The Netherlands&#8217; <strong>Inge Dekker<\/strong> will swimoff for the eighth spot after clocking matching 58.05.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s <strong>Kendyl Stewart<\/strong> missed out on finals with a 10th-place 58.14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s 400 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s <strong>Sun Yang<\/strong> put up a world best in the men&#8217;s 400-meter free to defend his title at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Sun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ba-zhen-sun-yangs-banned-doctor-has-suspension-extended-after-violation\/\" target=\"_blank\">who had some doping issues to take care of in the past year<\/a>, threw down a top time of 3:42.58 to defend his 2013 title. \u00a0That swim cleared <strong>Mack Horton&#8217;s<\/strong> 3:42.84 from Australian Nationals as the top time in the world this year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Sun&#8217;s sixth world championship gold\u00a0medal, and 10th career medal overall.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>James Guy<\/strong> earned silver in a time of 3:43.75. \u00a0That swim eclipsed his British record of 3:44.16 as he managed to capture his first world championship medal.<\/p>\n<p>Guy bettered his third-best ranking in the world with that swim.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s <strong>Ryan Cochrane<\/strong>, a 26-year-old veteran of the sport, collected bronze in 3:44.59. \u00a0That&#8217;s his third world bronze medal and seventh overall including four silvers.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now ranked fifth in the world with that swim.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s <strong>Connor Jaeger<\/strong> (3:44.81), Hungary&#8217;s <strong>Peter Bernek<\/strong> (3:46.29), Poland&#8217;s <strong>Wojciech Wojdak<\/strong> (3:46.81), Germany&#8217;s <strong>Clemens Rapp<\/strong> (3:48.52) and USA&#8217;s <strong>Michael McBroom<\/strong> (3:51.94) also competed for the world title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s 200 IM semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s <strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> became just the second woman ever to break 2:07 in the women&#8217;s 200-meter IM with a textile best and European record during semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Hosszu clocked a top time of 2:06.84 to finish more than a second-and-a-half ahead of the rest of the finals qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katinka-hosszu-cranks-out-textile-best-european-record-in-200-im-at-2015-fina-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">performance downed her previous textile best and European record of 2:07.30 set during prelims<\/a>. She also surpassed <strong>Stephanie Rice<\/strong> (2:07.03) for second all time in the event behind only <strong>Ariana Kukors&#8217;<\/strong> world record of 2:06.15 from 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comparative Splits<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Siobhan Marie O&#8217;Connor<\/strong> earned the second seed in a time of 2:08.45, just missing her British record of 2:08.21.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s <strong>Kanako Watanabe<\/strong> put up the third seed with a time of 2:09.61 to lower her Japanese record of 2:09.81.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s <strong>Maya DiRado<\/strong> (2:09.82), Canada&#8217;s <strong>Sydney Pickrem<\/strong> (2:10.08), USA&#8217;s <strong>Melanie Margalis<\/strong> (2:10.61), Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Hannah Miley<\/strong> (2:11.19) and China&#8217;s <strong>Ye Shiwen<\/strong> (2:11.39) also made their way into the finale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s 50 fly semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Florent Manaudou<\/strong> tied the French record in the men&#8217;s 50-meter fly with the top seed in semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Manaudou blasted the field with a 22.84 to match <strong>Fred Bousquet&#8217;s<\/strong> 2008 record. \u00a0He also cleared<strong> Nicholas Santos<\/strong> (22.90) for the top time in the world this year as just the second man under 23 seconds. \u00a0Manaudou is now tied with Bousquet for sixth all time in the event&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All Time 50 Fly<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Santos, meanwhile, cruised into the second seed with a time of 23.05 with Hungary&#8217;s <strong>Laszlo Cseh<\/strong> snaring third in 23.06.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s <strong>Konrad Czerniak<\/strong> (23.07), Ukraine&#8217;s <strong>Andrii Govorov<\/strong> (23.15), Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Ben Proud<\/strong> (23.24), Singapore&#8217;s <strong>Joe Schooling<\/strong> (23.27) and Brazil&#8217;s <strong>Cesar Cielo<\/strong> (23.29) will also compete for the championship title.<\/p>\n<p>Cielo is the two-time defending champion in the event, and just barely kept his chances of a threepeat alive. \u00a0Schooling, meanwhile, took down the Asian record in the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s 400 free finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Out under world-record pace at the 300-meter mark, USA&#8217;s <strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> settled for a meet record with the third-best time ever in the women&#8217;s 400-meter free at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Ledecky, who already has a pair of 3:58s to her credit with the world record 3:58.37 from the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships as well as a 3:58.86 from the 2014 USA Swimming Summer Nationals, just missed her third 3:58 with a meet-record time of 3:59.13.<\/p>\n<p>That swim clipped <strong>Federica Pellegrini&#8217;s<\/strong> former meet mark of 3:59.15 from the 2009 World Championships as Ledecky defended her 2013 title when she posted a 3:59.82 for the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All Time 400 Frees<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Before Ledecky came around, Pellegrini had the only sub 4:00 swim in the history of the sport. \u00a0Ledecky has now accomplished the feat five times.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands&#8217; <strong>Sharon Van Rouwendaal<\/strong> earned a distant silver with a 4:03.02. \u00a0That swim still broke her national record of 4:03.76 from 2014 as she moved to second in the world behind Ledecky.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s <strong>Jessica Ashwood<\/strong> grabbed bronze in 4:03.34 with an Oceania record time, downing <strong>Kylie Palmer&#8217;s<\/strong> Australian record of 4:03.40.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Jaz Carlin<\/strong> (4:03.74), New Zealand&#8217;s <strong>Lauren Boyle<\/strong> (4:04.38), Spain&#8217;s <strong>Melani Costa<\/strong> (4:06.50), Italy&#8217;s <strong>Diletta Carli<\/strong> (4:07.30) and Hungary&#8217;s <strong>Boglarka Kapas<\/strong> (4:08.22) rounded out the championship finale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s 100 breast semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World-record holder <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> clocked the second-fastest time all time in the men&#8217;s 100-meter breast to lead semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Peaty powered his way to a time of 58.18 in semifinal 2 after South Africa&#8217;s <strong>Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> posted a meet record 58.49 during semifinal 1.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Burgh&#8217;s effort downed&#8217; Peaty&#8217;s preliminary meet record of 58.52, but Peaty nearly tracked down his world record of 57.92 from the 2015 British Nationals with his sizzling swim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All Time 100 Breast<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s <strong>Giedrius Titenis<\/strong> (58.96), Kazakhstan&#8217;s <strong>Dmitriy Balandin<\/strong> (59.39), Russia&#8217;s <strong>Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> (59.60), Germany&#8217;s <strong>Hendrik Feldwehr<\/strong> (59.63), Australia&#8217;s <strong>Jake Packard<\/strong> (59.66) and Great Britain&#8217;s <strong>Ross Murdoch<\/strong> (59.75) also earned spots into finals.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s <strong>Cody Miller<\/strong> (59.86) and <strong>Nic Fink<\/strong> (1:00.14) finished ninth and 12th, outside the finals field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women&#8217;s 400 free relay finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Led by a stunning split by <strong>Bronte Campbell<\/strong>, the Australia foursome took down The Netherlands&#8217; meet record in the women&#8217;s 400-meter free relay at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Seebohm<\/strong> (53.92), <strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong> (53.57),<strong> Bronte Campbell<\/strong> (51.77) and <strong>Cate Campbell<\/strong> (52.22) smoked the finale with a time of 3:31.48. That swim clipped The Netherlands&#8217; 2009 record of 3:31.72 with Bronte definitely serving as the MVP of the relay.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands&#8217; <strong>Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong> (53.30), <strong>Maud van der Meer<\/strong> (54.50), <strong>Marrit Steenbergen<\/strong> (53.88) and <strong>Femke Heemskerk<\/strong> (51.99) tracked down silver in a time of 3:33.67.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s <strong>Missy Franklin<\/strong> (53.68), <strong>Margo Geer<\/strong> (54.14), <strong>Lia Neal<\/strong> (53.70) and <strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong> (53.09) clinched bronze with a time of 3:34.61.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Franklin&#8217;s 12th career world medal along with nine golds, a silver and another bronze. \u00a0She just needs 1 gold medal to break the all-time tie with <strong>Libby Trickett<\/strong>, but her 12th overall medal inched her closest to the most-lauded rankings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most World Medals<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]<br \/>\n\n<p>Sweden (3:35.71), Canada (3:36.44), Italy (3:37.16), China (3:37.64) and France (3:38.46) also competed in the finale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s 400 free relay finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France managed to hold off a hard-charging home team of Russia to win the men&#8217;s 400-meter free relay and defend its 2013 title at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s <strong>Mehdy Metella<\/strong> (48.37), <strong>Florent Manaudou<\/strong> (47.93), <strong>Fabien Gilot<\/strong> (47.08) and <strong>Jeremy Stravius<\/strong> (47.36) had too much in the tank for Russia, winning in 3:10.74.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s <strong>Andrey Grechin<\/strong> (48.60), <strong>Nikita Lobintsev<\/strong> (47.98), <strong>Vlad Morozov<\/strong> (46.95!) and <strong>Alexander Sukhorukov<\/strong> (47.66) put up a second-place time of 3:11.19 as Morozov powered the Russia into silver-contention.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s <strong>Luca Dotto<\/strong> (48.75), <strong>Marco Orsi<\/strong> (47.75), <strong>Michele Santucci<\/strong> (48.48) and <strong>Filippo Magnini<\/strong> (47.55) earned bronze in 3:13.53.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil (3:13.22), Poland (3:14.12), Japan (3:15.04), China (3:15.41) and Canada (3:15.94) also swam for the title in the finale.<\/p>\n<p>Noticeably absent from finals were Australia and the United States. \u00a0For the first time since USA won the first world title in the event in 1973, neither Australia nor the United States made finals after both failed to make the top eight in prelims.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/results\/2015-fina-world-championships-swimming-day-1-finals\/international-elite\/2015\/August\/2\" target=\"_blank\">2015 FINA World Championships, Swimming: Day 1 Finals &#8211; Results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SCHEDULED EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women\u2019s 100 fly semis<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s 400 free finals<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s 200 IM semis<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s 50 fly semis<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s 400 free finals<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s 100 breast semis<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s 400 free relay finals<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s 400 free relay finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2015-fina-world-championships-swimming-day-1-finals-heat-sheets\/\" target=\"_blank\">HEAT SHEETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to follow along with finals\u00a0live during the 2015 FINA World Championships. 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