Turkey’s\u00a0Viktoria Gunes\u00a0<\/b>leads the competition in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke going into tonight’s semi-finals. Gunes posted a time of 30.73 to make her the only competitor to go under the 31-second mark in prelims.<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s\u00a0Katie Matts<\/strong>\u00a0and Sweden’s\u00a0Sophie Hansson<\/strong>\u00a0are tied for second going into tonight’s semi-finals after both posted a 31.48.<\/p>\n Nikol Popov<\/strong>\u00a0of the USA claimed the third-place seed with a 31.69, while Japan’s\u00a0Yukino Miyasaka\u00a0<\/strong>grabbed a close fifth with a 31.76.<\/p>\n Kennedy Lohman<\/strong>\u00a0of the USA will join teammate Popov after posting a 32.00. Australia’s\u00a0Ella Bond<\/strong>\u00a0grabbed seventh with a 32.15, while Russia’s\u00a0Mariia Astashkina<\/strong>\u00a0and Hungary’s\u00a0Szonja\u00a0Szokol\u00a0<\/strong>tied for eighth with a 32.40.<\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Runa Imai<\/strong>\u00a0(32.42), Slovenia’s\u00a0Tina Celik\u00a0<\/strong>(32.51), Germany’s\u00a0Laura Kelsch<\/strong>\u00a0(32.53), Russia’s\u00a0Daria Chikunova<\/strong>\u00a0(32.56), Italy’s\u00a0Giulia Verona<\/strong>\u00a0(32.66), Slovakia’s\u00a0Andrea Podmanikova\u00a0<\/strong>(32.66), and Australia’s\u00a0Calypso Sheridan<\/strong>\u00a0(32.73) round out the top sixteen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkey’s\u00a0Viktoria Gunes\u00a0leads the competition in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke going into tonight’s semi-finals. Gunes posted a time of 30.73 to make her the only competitor to go under the 31-second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":151870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[54094,53994,53581,37810,40579,42601,48459,51984,32226,40415,54139],"class_list":["post-151863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2015-fina-junior-world-championships","tag-2015-fina-world-junior-championships","tag-2015-fina-world-junior-swimming-championships","tag-andrea-podmanikova","tag-daria-chikunova","tag-ella-bond","tag-katie-matts","tag-laura-kelsch","tag-nikol-popov","tag-sophie-hansson","tag-tina-celik"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n