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Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Emma McKeon<\/strong>, the 100 fly silver medalist, and Hong Kong&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Siobhan Haughey<\/strong> both broke 1:57 as well, finishing with respective times of 1:56.61 and 1:56.62.<\/p>\n<p>American\u00a0<strong>Leah Smith\u00a0<\/strong>took sixth in 1:57.04, and she was followed closely by the Netherlands&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Femke Heemskerk<\/strong> (1:57.06), Russia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Veronika Popova\u00a0<\/strong>(1:57.06), Sweden&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Michelle Coleman<\/strong> (1:57.15) and France&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Charlotte Bonnet\u00a0<\/strong>(1:57.34).<\/p>\n<p>Also making the semi-finals were Japan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Chihiro Igarashi\u00a0<\/strong>(1:57.67), China&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Li Bingjie\u00a0<\/strong>(1:57.79) and\u00a0<strong>Ai Yanhan\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.04), Canada&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Katerine Savard\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.16) and\u00a0<strong>Mary-Sophie Harvey\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.38) and the Netherlands&#8217;\u00a0<strong>Robin Neumann<\/strong> (1:58.66).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"268102\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/federica-pellegrini-edges-out-katie-ledecky-for-200-free-top-seed-at-worlds\/women-200-free-prelims\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims.png\" data-orig-size=\"1070,836\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"women-200-free-prelims\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;women-200-free-prelims&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims-1024x800.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-268102\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims.png\" alt=\"women-200-free-prelims\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims.png 1070w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims-533x416.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims-256x200.png 256w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-200-free-prelims-1024x800.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s\u00a0Federica Pellegrini, the 2009 and 2011 World Champion in the women&#8217;s 200 free as well as the world record-holder, laid down the time to beat in the event&#8217;s morning prelims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244611,"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":[59716],"class_list":["post-268093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2017-fina-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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