Japan’s\u00a0Junya Koga<\/strong> continued to dominate the men’s 50 backstroke with a first place showing in finals. Koga, who reset the Asian Record in the event twice on night three, stopped the clock at a 22.85, just off his\u00a0record of 22.74.<\/p>\n Jeremy Stravius\u00a0<\/strong>of France grabbed second with a time of 22.99 to be the only other athlete beneath the 23-second mark.<\/p>\n Belarus’\u00a0Pavel\u00a0Yankovich\u00a0<\/strong>turned in a final time of 23.03 for the bronze medal, while Venezuela’s\u00a0Albert\u00a0Subirats<\/strong> finished fourth overall with a time of 23.26.<\/p>\n Bobby Hurley\u00a0<\/strong>of Australia grabbed fifth with a time of 22.32, followed by a tie for sixth place between Spain’s\u00a0Miguel\u00a0<\/strong>Ortiz-Canavate<\/b> and Poland’s\u00a0Tomasz\u00a0<\/strong>Polewka.\u00a0<\/b>the two posted matching times of 23.40 from lanes two and eight respectively.<\/p>\n China’s\u00a0Xu Jiayu\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top eight with a time of 23.54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Men’s 50 Back: Japan’s\u00a0Junya Koga continued to dominate the men’s 50 backstroke with a first place showing in finals. Koga, who reset the Asian Record in the event twice on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":138298,"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-232938","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