Denmark’s\u00a0Pernille Blume<\/strong>, the Olympic gold medalist in the 50 free, qualified second in 53.13, and she was followed by the two women who shared Olympic gold in the 100 free last year: the United States’\u00a0Simone Manuel<\/strong> (53.17) and Canada’s\u00a0Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> (53.18).<\/p>\n American\u00a0Mallory Comerford\u00a0<\/strong>was fifth in 53.42, just ahead of the Netherlands’\u00a0Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong> (53.45) and Australians\u00a0Emma McKeon\u00a0<\/strong>(53.47) and\u00a0Bronte Campbell\u00a0<\/strong>(53.56). Kromowidjojo was the Olympic gold medalist in the event in 2012, while Campbell won the World title in the event two years ago in Kazan.<\/p>\n Italy’s\u00a0Federica Pellegrini<\/strong>, fresh off her gold medal in the women’s 200 free, was ninth in 53.92, and she will be joined in the semi-finals by\u00a0France’s\u00a0Charlotte Bonnet\u00a0<\/strong>(54.00), China’s\u00a0Zhu Menghui<\/strong> (54.00), Canada’s\u00a0Sandrine Mainville\u00a0<\/strong>(54.22), Sweden’s\u00a0Michelle Coleman<\/strong> (54.23), Great Britain’s\u00a0Freya Anderson<\/strong> (54.25) and Hong Kong’s\u00a0Siobhan Haughey<\/strong> (54.45).<\/p>\n The Netherlands’\u00a0Maud Van Der Meer\u00a0<\/strong>and Israel’s\u00a0Andrea Murez\u00a0<\/strong>tied for 16th in 54.49, necessitating a swim-off to determine the final qualifier into the semis. Murez ended up winning the swim-off, 54.20 to 54.49, to make it back for an evening swim.<\/p>\n Women’s 100 Free Sweden’s\u00a0Sarah Sjostrom\u00a0popped a 53.01 in the prelims of the women’s 100 free, well off her world record of 51.71 set leading off Sweden’s women’s 400 free relay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":267948,"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":[3,10],"tags":[59716],"class_list":["post-268805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2017-fina-world-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"women-100-free-prelims\"](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/women-100-free-prelims.png\")
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