Only\u00a0Michael Phelps<\/strong> (49.82) and\u00a0Milorad Cavic<\/strong> (49.95) have ever been quicker than Dressel’s morning effort, with both times coming at the 2009 World Championships in Rome. Dressel beat the textile best time of 50.39 set by\u00a0Joseph Schooling\u00a0<\/strong>on his way to Olympic gold last summer.<\/p>\n Italy’s\u00a0Piero Codia\u00a0<\/strong>swam a time of 51.09, well behind Dressel but good enough for the No. 2 seed, while Great Britain’s\u00a0James Guy<\/strong> qualified third in 51.16, and Schooling was fourth in 51.21.<\/p>\n Hungary’s\u00a0Kristof Milak\u00a0<\/strong>posted an impressive World Junior Record in the men’s 100 fly, touching in 51.23 to top the 51.26 set by\u00a0Li Zhuhao\u00a0<\/strong>last year. South Africa’s\u00a0Chad Le Clos<\/strong>, the World Champion in the 200 fly, took sixth in 51.28, and France’s\u00a0Mehdy Metella<\/strong>, who won bronze behind Dressel in the 100 free, was seventh in 51.46.<\/p>\n Brazil’s\u00a0Henrique Martins<\/strong> (51.48) and Poland’s\u00a0Konrad Czerniak<\/strong> (51.50) qualified eighth and ninth, respectively, while Hungary’s\u00a0Laszlo Cseh<\/strong>, who won silver in the 200 fly, took 10th in 51.55. The next man in was Li in 51.62.<\/p>\n Also making the semi-final were Australia’s\u00a0Grant Irvine\u00a0<\/strong>(51.67), Poland’s\u00a0Jan Switkowski<\/strong> (51.82), Russia’s\u00a0Aleksandr Popkov<\/strong> (51.84), Australia’s\u00a0David Morgan<\/strong> (51.90) and the USA’s\u00a0Tim Phillips\u00a0<\/strong>(51.96).<\/p>\n Men’s 100 Fly Less than an hour after qualifying second in the men’s 50 free prelims,\u00a0Caeleb Dressel put up a monster performance in the men’s 100 fly. He blasted a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":268545,"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-269176","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-fly-prelims\"](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/men-100-fly-prelims.png\")
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