Vladimir Morozov\u00a0<\/strong>of Russia maintained his post atop the leaderboard in the men’s splash and dash, topping the qualifying field with a time of 21.05.<\/p>\n Lithuania’s\u00a0Simonas Bilis\u00a0<\/strong>grabbed the second place seed for tomorrow’s final with a time of 21.15, while Italy’s\u00a0Luca Dotto\u00a0<\/strong>turned in a 21.29 to return as third.<\/p>\n Clement Mignon\u00a0<\/strong>of France posted a 21.30 to grab a narrow fourth place seed over the USA’s\u00a0Paul Powers<\/strong> and his time of 21.31.<\/p>\n The Netherlands’\u00a0Jesse Puts<\/strong> (21.33), Finland’s\u00a0Ari-Pekka Liukkonen\u00a0<\/strong>(21.36), and Russia’s\u00a0Aleksei Brianskii<\/strong> (21.44) qualified sixth through eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men’s 50 Free Semi-Finals: Vladimir Morozov\u00a0of Russia maintained his post atop the leaderboard in the men’s splash and dash, topping the qualifying field with a time of 21.05. Lithuania’s\u00a0Simonas Bilis\u00a0grabbed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":109470,"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-232694","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