The women of the 100 free final battled all the way to the wall for the top spot on the podium. The race came down to The Netherlands’\u00a0Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong>, Australia’s\u00a0Brittany Elmslie<\/strong>, and Canada’s\u00a0Penny Oleksiak\u00a0<\/strong>in the final 15-meters, with Elmslie grabbing the gold. Elmslie, a successful long course swimmer, picked up her first short course international medal with a 51.81 finish.<\/p>\n Kromowidjojo added a silver medal to her collection with a 51.92 finish, while hometown favorite Oleksiak picked up a bronze medal with a 52.01 finish.<\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Rikako Ikee\u00a0<\/strong>finished fourth overall with a time of 52.12, followed by Italy’s\u00a0Federica Pellegrini<\/strong> and her time of 52.43.<\/p>\n Canada’s\u00a0Sandrine Mainville<\/strong> (52.52), Russia’s\u00a0Veronika Popova<\/strong> (52.53), and China’s\u00a0Zhu Menghui\u00a0<\/strong>(52.74) rounded out the top eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women’s 100 Free FINAL: The women of the 100 free final battled all the way to the wall for the top spot on the podium. The race came down to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":130356,"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":[10],"tags":[58802],"class_list":["post-232679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2016-fina-sc-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n