France’s\u00a0Mehdy Metella\u00a0<\/strong>qualified second in 48.18, improving to No. 7 in the world rankings, while the United States’\u00a0Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>was third in 48.26. Dressel owns the top-ranked time in the world at 47.26 from his leadoff leg of the American 400 free relay Sunday evening.<\/p>\n Australia’s\u00a0Jack Cartwright\u00a0<\/strong>qualified fourth in 48.43, and then there was a four-way tie for fifth place at 48.46 between Japan’s\u00a0Shinri Shioura<\/strong>, Brazil’s\u00a0Marcelo Cherighini<\/strong>, the USA’s\u00a0Nathan Adrian\u00a0<\/strong>and Great Britain’s\u00a0Duncan Scott<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Russia’s\u00a0Danila Izotov<\/strong> and Canada’s\u00a0Yuri Kisil<\/strong> tied for ninth in 48.56, and they were followed by Ukraine’s\u00a0Sergii Shevtsov<\/strong> (48.60) and Brazil’s\u00a0Gabriel Santos<\/strong> (48.64). Belgium’s\u00a0Pieter Timmers<\/strong>, the Olympic silver medalist in the event last year, was 13th in 48.67.<\/p>\n Also making the semi-finals were\u00a0Algeria’s\u00a0Oussama Sahnoune<\/strong> (48.75), Italy’s\u00a0Ivano Vendrame\u00a0<\/strong>(48.78) and Serbia’s\u00a0Velimir Stjepanovic\u00a0<\/strong>(48.80). Singapore’s\u00a0Joseph Schooling\u00a0<\/strong>just missed with a 17th-placed time of 48.86, while a pair of Pac-12 rivals, Trinidad and Tobago’s\u00a0Dylan Carter\u00a0<\/strong>(USC) and Hungary’s\u00a0Richard Bohus<\/strong> (Arizona State) tied for 18th at 48.87.<\/p>\n Men’s 100 Free Australia’s\u00a0Cameron McEvoy\u00a0provided the only swim under 48 seconds in the prelims of the men’s 100 free, checking in with a quick 47.97. That’s just a little bit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194351,"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-268456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-2017-fina-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"men-100-free-prelims\"](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-100-free-prelims.png\")
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