{"id":152210,"date":"2015-08-26T19:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T02:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=152210"},"modified":"2015-08-26T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:50:00","slug":"viktoria-zeynep-gunes-leads-100-breast-after-prelims-at-2015-fina-world-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/viktoria-zeynep-gunes-leads-100-breast-after-prelims-at-2015-fina-world-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktoria Zeynep Gunes Leads 100 Breast After Prelims at 2015 FINA World Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s\u00a0Viktoria Zeynep Gunes<\/strong>\u00a0turned in a sizzling 1:06.96 to lead the competition in prelims of the women’s 100-meter breaststroke. Gunes succeeded in shaving .64 seconds off of her seed time of 1:07.60 and finished strikingly close to\u00a0Ruta Meilutyte’s\u00a0<\/strong>2013 championship meet record of 1:06.61.<\/p>\n

Japan’s\u00a0Runa Imai\u00a0<\/strong>finished second overall in prelims with a time of 1:08.35. Imai added slightly to her time of 1:07.46 so look for her to turn up the heat come semi-finals tonight.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s\u00a0Katie Matts<\/strong>\u00a0grabbed the third place seed with a finishing time of 1:08.66, adding just slightly to her seed time of 1:08.53.<\/p>\n

Mariia Astashkina\u00a0<\/strong>of Russia finished fourth in prelims with a time of 1:08.89. Astashkina was followed closely to the wall by Italy’s\u00a0Giulia Verona,<\/strong>\u00a0also of heat 3, after Verona posted a time of 1:08.96.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s\u00a0Sophie Hansson<\/strong>\u00a0and Japan’s\u00a0Yukino Miyasaka\u00a0<\/strong>turned in strikingly close times with Hansson finishing only .02 seconds ahead of Miyasaka in the results. Hansson will return to semi-finals as the sixth place seed with a time of 1:09.44, while Miyasaka will take seventh after a time of 1:09.46.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Lohman<\/strong>\u00a0of the USA will round out the top eight qualifiers after posting a finishing time of 1:09.60.<\/p>\n

Russia’s\u00a0Daria Chikunova<\/strong>\u00a0(1:09.90), Kenya’s\u00a0Kamau Rebecca Wacui<\/strong>\u00a0(1:10.29), Australia’s\u00a0Ella Bond\u00a0<\/strong>(1:10.39), Canada’s\u00a0Sarah Darcel\u00a0<\/strong>(1:10.66), USA’s\u00a0Nikol Popov<\/strong>\u00a0(1:10.78), Australia’s\u00a0Calypso Sheridan<\/b>\u00a0(1:11.43), Slovakia’s\u00a0Andrea Podmanikova<\/strong>\u00a0(1:11.48), and Belgium’s\u00a0Lise Michels<\/strong>\u00a0(1:11.53) will also return for tonight’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Schedule of Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n