HELSINKI, July 7. Sweden's Lars Frolander and Slovakia's Martina Moravcova–both graduates of SMU in Dallas–breezed into the semi-finals today, as they topped the 16 prelim qualifiers in their respective events.<\/p>\n
Frolander clocked 53.80 for the men's 100 meter butterfly, one of five men to crack 54 seconds. Germany's Thomas Rupprath, who last month set a national record of 52.58 at the German Olympic Trials, was third in 53.88.<\/p>\n
Swimming in her fourth individual event, Moravcova eased up at the end of the women's 200 meter freestyle but still had the top prelims time, 2:01.65. Romania's Camelia Potec, co-favorite in the event with Moravcova, was the fourth qualifier in 2:02.80.<\/p>\n
Israel's Yoav Gath was well ahead of all the other men's 200 meter backstroke qualifiers, putting in a fine 2:00.61 time, well ahead of Ukraine's Volodymyr Nikolaychuk at 2:01.38 and Croatia's Gordan Kozulj at 2:02.43. <\/p>\n
France's Karine Bremond turned in the fastest women's 200 meter breaststroke prelim time, 2:30.83. Defending champ and pre-meet favorite Agnes Kovacs, of Hungary, was third in 2:31.12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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