{"id":147696,"date":"2015-08-03T00:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=147696"},"modified":"2015-08-03T00:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T07:44:02","slug":"yuliya-efimova-leads-handful-of-106s-in-100-breast-prelims-at-2015-fina-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yuliya-efimova-leads-handful-of-106s-in-100-breast-prelims-at-2015-fina-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuliya Efimova Leads Handful of 1:06s in 100 Breast Prelims at 2015 FINA World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia’s Yuliya Efimova<\/strong> led a handful of 1:06s into the semifinals of the women’s 100-meter breast at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n

Efimova put up the top time of the morning with a 1:06.31, well off her third-ranked time of 1:05.89 from the Mission Viejo Invitational in her first swim back from an anti-doping ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n

China’s Shi Jinglin<\/strong> qualified second in 1:06.45 to move into a fourth-place tie with Kanako Watanabe<\/strong> in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

USA’s Jessica Hardy<\/strong> put up a 1:06.68 for the third seed to move to seventh in the world, while world-leader Ruta Meilutyte<\/strong> of Lithuania earned the fourth seed with an easy speed 1:06.75. \u00a0She leads the rankings this year with a 1:05.46 from the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum circuit.<\/p>\n

Meilutyte is looking to defend her 2013 championship, where she beat Efimova 1:04.42 to 1:05.02 for the win. \u00a0Hardy finished bronze that year as well with a 1:05.52.<\/p>\n

Watanabe (1:06.81), Iceland’s Hilda Luthersdottir<\/strong> (1:06.87) and Australia’s Taylor McKeown<\/strong> (1:06.97) also cleared 1:07 to make semis.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Jennie Johannson<\/strong> (1:07.09), Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson<\/strong> (1:07.09), Spain’s Jessica Vall<\/strong> (1:07.13), Belgium’s Fanny Lecluyse<\/strong> (1:07.29), Australia’s Lorna Tonks<\/strong> (1:07.32), Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen<\/strong> (1:07.39), Canada’s Rachel Nicol<\/strong> (1:07.52), Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni<\/strong> (1:07.52) and Finland’s Jenna Laukkanen<\/strong> (1:07.58) also claimed transfer spots into the semifinal heats.<\/p>\n

USA’s Micah Lawrence<\/strong> missed a second swim with a 19th-place 1:07.73.<\/p>\n

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