It was a tight race to the finish, but the USA’s\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/strong> arrived ready to race for the finals of the men’s 100 individual medley. Andrew jumped to an early, turning first at the 50-meter mark before topping the competition with a time of 51.84. Andrew’s time was the only sub-52 second swim of the night.<\/p>\n The Japanese duo of\u00a0Daiya Seto\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Shinri Shioura<\/strong> completed the podium with silver and bronze finishes. Both swimmers moved up in the second 50-meters as they turned fifth and sixth respectively after the backstroke leg. Seto finished second with a 52.01, while Shioura was third with a 52.17.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Wang Shun<\/strong> picked up a close fourth with a final time of 52.21, while Germany’s\u00a0Philip Heintz<\/strong> finished fifth with \u00a0a52.78.<\/p>\n World record holder\u00a0Vladimir Morozov<\/strong> of Russia faded to sixth after a strong anchor leg in the men’s 200 free relay. Morozov tied with Sweden’s\u00a0Simon Sjodin\u00a0<\/strong>for sixth with matching times of 52.83.<\/p>\n Kyle Stolk<\/strong> of the Netherlands was eighth with a time of 53.31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men’s 100 IM: It was a tight race to the finish, but the USA’s\u00a0Michael Andrew arrived ready to race for the finals of the men’s 100 individual medley. Andrew jumped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":209256,"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-232900","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