{"id":152565,"date":"2015-08-28T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=152565"},"modified":"2015-08-28T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T05:02:20","slug":"felipe-souza-tops-qualifiers-list-in-100-free-at-2015-fina-world-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/felipe-souza-tops-qualifiers-list-in-100-free-at-2015-fina-world-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Felipe Souza Tops Qualifiers List in 100 Free at 2015 FINA World Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Felipe Souza<\/strong>\u00a0of Brazil topped the qualifiers list during prelims of the men’s 100-meter free with a final time of 49.64. Souza added slightly to his seed time of 49.16, a time not too far off of\u00a0Caeleb Dressel’s\u00a0<\/strong>championship meet record of 48.97 from 2013.<\/p>\n

Souza’s teammate\u00a0Pedro Spajari\u00a0<\/strong>finished second overall in prelims posting a qualifying time of 49.90 making him the only other athlete to swim below the 50-second mark.<\/p>\n

Russia’s\u00a0Vladislav Kozlov<\/strong>\u00a0tied with Australia’s\u00a0Vincent Dai\u00a0<\/strong>for the third place seed. Kozlov posted\u00a0a time of 50.02 from heat eight, scraping .05 seconds off his seed time of 50.07, while Dai’s 50.02 came from heat nine.<\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]
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Alessandro Miressi<\/strong>\u00a0of Italy took the fifth place seed with a time of 50.06, while teammate\u00a0Alessandro Bori\u00a0<\/strong>finished sixth in prelims with a time of 50.10.<\/p>\n

Romania’s\u00a0Robert Glinta<\/strong>\u00a0turned in a time of 50.18 to grab the seventh place seed, and Australia’s\u00a0Kyle Chalmers\u00a0<\/strong>posted a time of 50.20 to grab eighth.<\/p>\n

USA’s\u00a0Maxime Rooney<\/strong>\u00a0(50.24), Serbia’s\u00a0Andrej Barna<\/b>\u00a0(50.30), Canada’s\u00a0Markus Thormeyer<\/strong>\u00a0(50.31), Mexico’s\u00a0Jorge Iga<\/strong>\u00a0(50.53), Egypt’s\u00a0Mohamed Samy<\/strong>\u00a0(50.59), Russia’s\u00a0Aleksei Brianskii<\/strong>\u00a0(50.63), Canada’s\u00a0Javier Acevedo<\/strong>\u00a0(50.71), and USA’s\u00a0Ryan Hoffer<\/strong>\u00a0(50.76) complete the top sixteen.<\/p>\n

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