{"id":148831,"date":"2015-08-07T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=148831"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:21:44","slug":"sarah-sjostrom-sets-new-meet-record-in-semis-of-50-fly-at-2015-fina-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sarah-sjostrom-sets-new-meet-record-in-semis-of-50-fly-at-2015-fina-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Sjostrom Sets New Meet Record in Semis of 50 Fly at 2015 FINA World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden’s\u00a0Sarah Sjostrom\u00a0<\/strong>rebounded quickly from the women’s 100-free to top the competition in semis of the 50 fly with a 25.06. Sjostrom’s time lowers the World Championships record of 25.07 set by Sweden’s\u00a0Theresa Alshammar\u00a0<\/strong>in 2009.<\/p>\n

Denmark’s\u00a0Jeanette Ottesen<\/strong> turned in a 25.27 for the second-place seed. Ottesen improves on her 2015 best time of 25.48 from the Danish Open.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s\u00a0Fran Halsall<\/strong>\u00a0posted a 25.71 from heat two for a spot in the middle of the pool for finals. Halsall shaved .15 seconds off her best of 25.86 from prelims.<\/p>\n

Ying Lu<\/strong> of China grabbed the fourth-place seed with a time of 25.79, adding .10 seconds to her prelims time of 25.69.<\/p>\n

Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace<\/strong> of the Bahamas and Egypt’s\u00a0Farida Osman<\/strong> kept it close in heat one finishing .07 seconds apart. Vanderpool-Wallace got her hand to the wall first finishing with a time of 25.81, while Osman settled for the sixth-place seed and a 25.88.<\/p>\n

Inge Dekker<\/strong> of the Netherlands (25.90) and\u00a0Anna Dogwiert\u00a0<\/strong>of Poland (25.91) finished seventh and eighth respectively.<\/p>\n

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