{"id":22373,"date":"2009-10-17T03:08:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T08:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2009\/10\/fina-world-cup-durban-flash-therese-alshammar-sets-world-record-during-prelims\/"},"modified":"2014-07-27T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T06:55:38","slug":"fina-world-cup-durban-flash-therese-alshammar-sets-world-record-during-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fina-world-cup-durban-flash-therese-alshammar-sets-world-record-during-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"FINA World Cup, Durban: Flash! Therese Alshammar Sets World Record During Prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.universalsports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=11652&#038;DB_LANG=C&#038;DB_OEM_ID=23000&#038;ATCLID=204810454 target=_blank>Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, South Africa, October 17. THE second day of preliminary qualifying rounds of the FINA World Cup series provided the first world record of the circuit.  Sweden&#39;s Therese Alshammar erased the women&#39;s 100 IM global mark with a swift morning effort.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 1500 free slower seeds<\/b><br \/>\nMichael Peterson downed Dean Myhill 16:44.53 to 16:47.83, in a head-to-head South African battle during the slower seeds of the men&#39;s 1500 free.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 100 free<\/b><br \/>\nThe women&#39;s 100 free finale this evening looks to be a good one as it is stocked with plenty of stars.  The Netherlands went 1-2 during qualifying as Inge Dekker (53.85) and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.98) topped prelims.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#39;s Marieke Guehrer (54.35) and Felicity Galvez (54.67) finished third and fourth, while Sweden&#39;s Sarah Sjostrom took fifth in 54.93.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Hardy of the U.S. touched sixth in 55.18, while South Africa&#39;s Karin Prinsloo (55.27) and Lara Jackson (55.56) of the U.S. rounded out the finals field.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 200 free<\/b><br \/>\nSouth Africa claimed the bulk of the transfer spots into finals as Darian Townsend (1:45.63), Leith Shankland (1:49.03) and Jay-Cee Thompson (1:49.34) went 1-6-8.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#39;s Steffen Deibler finished second in 1:46.97, while Argentina&#39;s Federico Grabich (1:47.37) and Damian Roth (1:48.26) qualified third and fifth.  Switzerland&#39;s Dominik Meichtry took fourth in 1:47.55. Brazil&#39;s Guilherme Roth-Santos wound up seventh in 1:49.10.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 50 breast<\/b><br \/>\nGermany&#39;s Kerstin Vogel claimed the top seed in the sprint breast event with a time of 30.41, but world record holder Jessica Hardy of the U.S. qualified just behind in 31.13 and should have plenty left in the tank for a world-record attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden&#39;s Joline Hostman placed third in 31.60 with Germany&#39;s Caroline Ruhnau finishing fourth in 31.81.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans Ronwyn Roper (32.22), Keri Plumstead (32.24), Taryn MacKenzie (32.43) and Kerryn Mullin (32.70) completed the top eight.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 100 breast<\/b><br \/>\nSouth Africa&#39;s Neil Versfeld topped qualifying with a time of 58.54, while compatriots Thabang Moeketsane (59.87) and Cameron van der Burgh (59.88) placed second and third.  Germany&#39;s Hendrik Feldwehr wound up fourth overall in 59.91.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#39;s Eduardo Fischer took fifth in 1:00.17, while South Africa&#39;s William Diering touched sixth in 1:00.79.  South Africa&#39;s Ashley Oliver (1:00.85) and Gerhard Zandberg (1:01.15) finished seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 100 fly<\/b><br \/>\nSouth Africa and Russia grabbed all of the finale spots.  Chad Le Clos (52.89), Garth Tune (53.02) and Lyndon Ferns (53.09) captured the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#39;s Maxim Ganikhin (53.21) and Evgeny Korotyshkin (53.28) qualified fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans Rohan Jacobs (54.39), Wesley Gilchrist (54.40) and Marius Hattingh (54.44) posted the sixth, seventh and eighth fastest times of the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 100 back<\/b><br \/>\nBrazil&#39;s Fabiola Molina cleared 1:00 for the quickest time of the morning as she turned in a 59.98.  South Africa&#39;s Karin Prinsloo placed second in 1:00.81, while Chanelle Van Wyk finished third in 1:01.04.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney Myers of the U.S. qualified fourth in 1:01.26, while South Africa&#39;s Jessica Ashley-Cooper took fifth in 1:02.64. Daniella Lushington of South Africa claimed sixth in 1:03.74 with teammate Brittney Cameron finishing seventh in 1:04.00. Zimbabwe&#39;s Kirsten Lapham completed the championship field in 1:04.24.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 50 back<\/b><br \/>\nPeter Marshall of the United States earned the top seed in the sprint back with a time of 23.92, while Brazil&#39;s Daniel Orzechowski placed second in 24.03.  Russia&#39;s Stanislav Donets finished third in 24.18.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Gerhard Zandberg (24.26) and George Du Rand (24.4) placed fourth and fifth, while Austria&#39;s Markus Rogan took sixth in 24.62.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina&#39;s Federico Grabich (24.65) and Australia&#39;s Ashley Delaney (24.80) completed the top eight to vie for the title.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 200 IM<\/b><br \/>\nAustria&#39;s Markus Rogan (1:59.76) and South Africa&#39;s Darian Townsend (1:59.83) cleared 2:00 to go 1-2 during preliminary qualifying.  South Africa&#39;s Jay-Cee Thompson (2:01.06) and Riaan Schoeman (2:01.95) claimed third and fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina&#39;s Gaston Rodriguez placed fifth in 2:02.59, while South Africa&#39;s Chad Le Clos took sixth in 2:02.71.  Rodriguez lowered Argentina&#39;s national record of 2:03.39 previously set by Andres Gustavo Grasso in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Marco Husselmann (2:04.12) and Albertus Nel (2:04.20) also picked up transfer spots into finals.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 400 free<\/b><br \/>\nSouth Africa nearly made it a clean sweep of the middle distance event as only Singapore&#39;s Chriselle Koh Wyn Jia broke up the sweep with an eighth-place 4:26.52. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jessica Pengelly (4:16.91), Kayla Ferreira (4:17.91), Rene Warnes (4:18.46), Nina Nicholas (4:19.98), Bianca Hauzer (4:23.30), Natasha De Vos (4:25.25) and Zoe Venter (4:25.73) made up the rest of the championship field.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 50 free<\/b><br \/>\nIt took a 21 to make the finale of the men&#39;s splash-and-dash.  Sweden&#39;s Stefan Nystrand captured the top seed with a time of 21.45, while Russia&#39;s Sergey Fesikov took second in 21.47.  Sabir Muhammad of the U.S. placed third in 21.56, while South Africa&#39;s Roland Schoeman touched fourth in 21.70.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Lyndon Ferns grabbed fifth in 21.82 with South Africa&#39;s Gerhard Zandberg taking sixth in 21.87. Germany&#39;s Steffen Deibler earned seventh in 21.92, while Brazil&#39;s Guilherme Roth-Santos placed eighth in 21.99.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 200 breast<\/b><br \/>\nSerbia&#39;s Nadja Higl smashed her national record with a time of 2:23.35.  The time wiped out her 2:27.22 set in February 2009. Germany&#39;s Caroline Ruhnau finished a distant second in 2:26.76, while South Africa&#39;s Ronwyn Roper took third in 2:27.99.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Jessica Liss took fourth in 2:28.18, while Sweden&#39;s Joline Hostman placed fifth in 2:28.19.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Kathryn Meaklim (2:32.13), Jessica Pengelly (2:32.30) and Kirsty Wienand (2:33.21) snagged sixth, seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 100 IM<\/b><br \/>\nSweden&#39;s Therese Alshammar lowered the world record in the women&#39;s 100 IM with a time of 58.51.  Her performance wiped out the record of 58.54 set by Emily Seebohm in August.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I felt good going into the race off the back of wins in the 50 meters freestyle and 100 meters butterfly last night,&quot; Alshammar, who also won a US$10,000 world record bounty from FINA, told <i>Swimming South Africa<\/i>. &quot;I have been working really hard on my turns and butterfly kicks during training and it all came together for me today.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the comparative splits:<br \/>\nAlshammar: 25.97, 58.51 (32.54)<br \/>\nSeebohm: 26.88, 58.54 (31.66)<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this year, Natalie Coughlin held the record with a 58.80 set in 2002 in New York, which also stood as the World Cup record until Alshammar&#39;s record.  Notably, Alshammar also lowered the Swedish record of Josefin Lillhage set with a 59.84 set in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands&#39; Hinkelien Schreuder finished second in 59.35 to down her national record of 59.75 set in December 2008. <\/p>\n<p>Jessica Hardy (1:01.66) and Whitney Myers (1:01.76) of the United States touched third and fourth, while Brazil&#39;s Fabiola Molina placed fifth in 1:02.00.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#39;s Amanda Loots (1:02.16), Lara Jackson (1:02.69) of the United States and Germany&#39;s Kerstin Vogel (1:03.05) completed the top eight.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men&#39;s 200 back<\/b><br \/>\nAustralia&#39;s Ashley Delaney led the way out of prelims with a time of 1:57.43, while South Africa&#39;s George Du Rand finished second in 1:58.53. South Africa&#39;s Charl Van Zyl claimed third in 1:58.73, while South Africa&#39;s Michael Meyer earned fourth in 1:59.27.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#39;s Arkady Vyatchanin turned in a fifth-place time of 2:00.04, while South Africa&#39;s Leith Shankland placed sixth in 2:01.03.  Russia&#39;s Stanislav Donets (2:01.63) and South Africa&#39;s Rohan Jacobs (2:01.68) also made the championship field.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women&#39;s 50 fly<\/b><br \/>\nSweden&#39;s Therese Alshammar followed the world record performance in the 100 IM with a top-seeded time of 25.68 in the sprint fly. 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