Day two prelims of the 2016 FINA World Cup Series in Dubai saw many swimmers claiming multiple top seeds.<\/p>\n
Jeanette Ottesen<\/strong> squeezed underneath the 54-second mark in prelims of the women’s 100 free. She returns as the top seed for tonight’s final along with\u00a0Brittany Elmslie<\/strong> (54.12),\u00a0Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> (54.18), and\u00a0Madeline Groves<\/strong> (54.22).<\/p>\n Ottesen also posted the top qualifying time in the women’s 50 fly (26.47)<\/p>\n Hosszu turned in qualifying times in the 100 back (1:00.89), 400 free (2:04.87), 200 fly (2:04.87), 400 free (4:19.35), 100 IM (59.55), 50 fly (26.90)<\/p>\n Two men posted times underneath the 1:48-mark in the men’s 200 free to lead a tightly bunched field.\u00a0Pieter Timmers\u00a0<\/strong>posted the fastest time at a 1:47.59 over\u00a0Myles Brown’s\u00a0<\/strong>1:47.75.<\/p>\n Alia Atkinson<\/strong> leads a strong breaststroke contingent into finals of the women’s 50 breast with the only sub-30 second swim–a 29.48.<\/p>\n Both\u00a0Li Xiang<\/strong> and\u00a0Daiya Seto<\/strong> slipped past the one-minute marker in prelims of the men’s 100 breaststroke with qualifying times of 59.08 and 59.14 respectively.<\/p>\n Seto turned in the top time for prelims of the men’s 200 IM, returning as the top seed with a 2:00.70.<\/p>\n Daryna Zevina<\/strong> delivered a dominating swim in prelims of the women’s 100 back, stopping the clock at a 58.57 to be the only swimmer underneath the one-minute mark. Additionally, the swimmer posted the top time in the women’s 400 free (4:!6.66) by close to three seconds.<\/p>\n Prelims of the men’s 50 back were highlighted by close qualifications.\u00a0Miguel\u00a0Orpiz-Canavate\u00a0<\/strong>(23.72),\u00a0Takeshi Kawamoto<\/strong> (23.75), and\u00a0Pavel Sankovich\u00a0<\/strong>(23.79) all posted qualifying times within .07 seconds of one another.<\/p>\n Philip Heintz<\/strong> (51.60) leads a quad of quick swimmers into finals of the men’s 100 fly. Heintz will be joined by\u00a0Kawamoto (51.76),\u00a0Chad le Clos<\/strong> (51.89), and\u00a0Josh Prenot<\/strong> (51.93).<\/p>\n Vladimir Morozov<\/strong> will look to maintain his crown in the men’s 50 free, entering finals as the top seed with a 21.51.<\/p>\n Stanislav Donetc<\/strong> out-swam the competition in prelims of the men’s 200 back with a qualifying time of 1:59.41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day two prelims of the 2016 FINA World Cup Series in Dubai saw many swimmers claiming multiple top seeds. Jeanette Ottesen squeezed underneath the 54-second mark in prelims of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48606,"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":[58322],"class_list":["post-224003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2016-world-cup-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n