World Junior records were set by the Canadian women in the 4×100 freestyle relay, and Michael Andrew<\/strong> in the men’s 50 fly semifinals.<\/p>\n Canada’s Jade Hannah<\/strong> and Japan’s Natsumi Sakai<\/strong> tied for the gold medal in the women’s 50-meter backstroke, while Martinenghi and a hyped-up Andrew will be battling it out in the finals of the men’s 50-meter breaststroke tomorrow.<\/p>\n Overall, Team USA pocketed two more individual medals and one relay medal over the course of the session.<\/p>\n Schedule of Events:<\/p>\n The evening kicked off with the top heat of the women’s 1500-meter freestyle. Argentina’s Delfina Pignatiello\u00a0<\/strong>was the only athlete under 16:00.00, setting a championship record. Her time of 15:59.51 was good for the gold medal, ahead of 400-meter champion Anja Kesely<\/strong> of Hungary. Kesely stopped the clock in 16:15.68 for silver.<\/p>\n Third atop the podium was Spain’s Agueda Beatriz Cons Gestido\u00a0<\/strong>in 16:17.84, pulling ahead of Team USA’s top seed Erica Sullivan<\/strong> in the final 200 meters. Sullivan just missed out on a medal, finishing in 16:20.12 for fourth place.<\/p>\n Fifth place went to Russia’s Anastasiia Kirpichnikova\u00a0<\/strong>in 16:22.96, while Italy’s Giulia Salin<\/strong> finished sixth in 16:27.06.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top eight finishers were Japan’s Waka Kobori<\/strong> (16:31.37) and Australia’s Lani Pallister<\/strong> (16:32.59).<\/p>\n Ivan Girev<\/strong> of Russia topped the field in the men’s 100-meter freestyle semi-finals, sprinting to a 48.83 to qualify first heading into finals of the event. Hungary’s ace Nandor Nemeth\u00a0<\/strong>grabbed the second seed with his time of 49.14, while Brazil’s Breno Correia touched third in 49.33.<\/p>\n Americans Matthew Willenbring<\/strong> and Daniel Krueger<\/strong> finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Willenbring’s time of 49.36 was over a second faster than his prelims time, while Krueger dropped over half a second. The teammates will be looking to medal in the event tomorrow at finals.<\/p>\n France’s Maxime Grousset\u00a0<\/strong>qualified in sixth place with his time of 49.77, while Brazil’s Lucas Peixoto<\/strong> was close behind in 49.79 for seventh.<\/p>\n Rounding out the final heat will be Australia’s Jordan Brunt<\/strong>, whose time of 49.85 was good for eighth seed.<\/p>\n New 50-meter fly World Junior record holder Rikee Ikako<\/strong> of Japan flew to first seed and a new championship record in the semi-finals of the women’s 100-meter butterfly, stopping the clock in 58.11. Canada’s Rebecca Smith<\/strong> sits in second place heading into finals with her time of 58.79.<\/p>\n Ikako’s teammate Suzuka Hasegawa\u00a0<\/strong>sprinted to a time of 59.19 for third place in the final heat, while Great Britain’s Emily Large<\/strong> holds fourth seed with her time of 59.25.\u00a0Russia’s Polina Egorova<\/strong> and Sweden’s Sara Juvenik\u00a0<\/strong>tied for fifth place in the semi-final with their time of 59.26.<\/p>\n Team USA’s backstroke champion Regan Smith<\/strong> snuck into the championship final of the 100 butterfly with her time of 59.30, a 0.30 drop from prelims. Sitting in eighth place is Canada’s Mabel Zavaros<\/strong>, with her time of 59.36.<\/p>\n Michael Andrew<\/strong> continues to excel, lowering his third new World Junior record of the meet from his 23.27 swam yesterday at semi-finals to a 23.22 for the gold medal in the men’s 50-meter butterfly finals. Russia’s Andrei Minakov<\/strong> claimed the silver medal with his time of 23.53, while\u00a0100-meter champion Kristof Milak\u00a0<\/strong>sprinted to a 23.72 for bronze.<\/p>\n Kazakhstan’s Adilbek Mussin\u00a0<\/strong>placed fourth in the championship final with his time of 23.83, while Turkey’s Umitcan Gures\u00a0<\/strong>claimed fifth place in 23.90.<\/p>\n The next athlete to touch the wall was Luca Armbruster<\/strong> of Germany in 24.07, followed by Egypt’s Abdelrahman Sameh<\/strong>\u00a0in 24.16 for seventh. Eighth place went to Egor Kuimov<\/strong> of Russia with his time of 24.23.<\/p>\n World Junior-record holder Ikee continued her dominance in the sprint events during the semi-finals of the women’s 50-meter freestyle, stopping the clock in a new championship record-time of 24.74. She will surely be looking to lower her personal best and World Junior record of 24.48 during finals of the event tomorrow.<\/p>\n Team USA captain Grace Ariola\u00a0<\/strong>was close behind Ikee in a quick swim of 24.87 for second-place heading into finals, and will pose a threat to Ikee in the final. Sayuki Ouchi<\/strong> of Japan touched third in 25.14.<\/p>\n Fourth place heading into finals went to Julie Kepp Jensen<\/strong> of Denmark with her time of 25.31, while Czechoslovakia’s Barbora Seemanova\u00a0<\/strong>touched next in 25.34. Canada’s Kayla Noelle Sanchez\u00a0<\/strong>nabbed sixth seed in 25.35.<\/p>\n Rounding out the final heat will be seventh-place Angelina Kohler<\/strong> of Germany (25.45) and eighth-place Freya Anderson<\/strong> (25.51), championship record-holder in the 100-meter freestyle from Great Britain.<\/p>\n Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi\u00a0<\/strong>finally dethroned the seemingly unbeatable Andrew during the semi-finals of the men’s 50-meter breaststroke, lowering his own championship record of 27.21 to a 27.02, just 0.05 off his own World Junior record in the event. Andrew was a close second, touching in 27.61. The two will battle it out in finals tomorrow – it’s likely the\u00a0World Junior record will be lowered, but by whom?<\/p>\n Third place heading into finals went to Alessandro Pinzuti<\/strong> of Italy with his 27.65, while Russia’s\u00a0Vladislav Gerasimenko\u00a0<\/strong>touched fourth in 27.87. Team USA’s Reece Whitley<\/strong> will be looking for a spot on the podium tomorrow, as he sits in fifth with his time of 28.02.<\/p>\n Michael Houlie<\/strong> of South Africa sits in sixth heading into the finals with his time of 28.11, while Philipp Andre Brandt<\/strong> of Germany (28.15) and Canada’s Gabe Mastromatteo\u00a0<\/strong>(28.30) round out the final heat in seventh and eighth, respectively.<\/p>\n Canada’s Jade Hannah<\/strong> and Japan’s Natsumi Sakai<\/strong>\u00a0tied for the gold medal in an exciting final heat of the women’s 50-meter backstroke, both touching in exactly 27.93. They will share the podium, while Team USA’s Ariola\u00a0touched third in 28.11 to stand atop as well.<\/p>\n Just off the podium was 200-meter champion Smith, who touched in 28.12, just 0.01 behind her captain teammate. Great Britain’s Anna Maine<\/strong> (28.40) and Cassie Wild<\/strong> (28.42) touched fifth and sixth, respectively.<\/p>\n Seventh was Russia’s Egorova in 28.71, while eighth place went to Jensen in 28.78 to round out the tightly competitive final heat.<\/p>\n Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez\u00a0<\/strong>broke Joseph Bentz<\/strong>‘s four-year-old World Junior Championship record on his way to gold in the finals of the men’s 400-meter IM this evening. Touching\u00a0in 4:14.65, he also scared\u00a0Sean Grieshop<\/strong>‘s World Junior record mark of 4:14.00. The silver medal went to Marton Barta<\/strong> of Hungary who touched a second later in 4:15.65.<\/p>\n Hungarian Balazs Hollo<\/strong>‘s time of 4:16.78 was good for the bronze medal. Team USA just missed out on a medal, as Kieran Smith<\/strong> touched fourth in 4:17.63. Fifth place went to Brodie Williams<\/strong> of Great Britain with his time of 4:20.64.<\/p>\n Argentina’s Santiago Bergliaffa<\/strong> (sixth, 4:22.29), Great Britain’s Nathan Hughes<\/strong> (seventh, 4:22.39), and Poland’s Marcel Wagrowski<\/strong> (eighth, 4:23.56) rounded out the top eight.<\/p>\n Canada’s women’s relay team combined to break Australia’s World Junior record in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay this evening during the last event of day five finals. Taylor Ruck<\/strong>, Penny Oleksiak<\/strong>, Smith, and Sanchez worked together to throw down a time of 3:36.19, almost three seconds faster than the previous World Junior record set in 2015. Ruck led off in a blistering 53.63, the fastest split of the entire event.<\/p>\n Lucie Nordmann<\/strong>, Alex Walsh<\/strong>, Julia Cook<\/strong>, and Ariola stopped the clock for Team USA in 3:39.69, also faster than the previous World Junior record and good for the silver medal.<\/p>\n Ouchi, Miku Kojima<\/strong>, Ikee, and Sakai combined to win Japan\u00a0relay bronze with their time of 3:40.59. Fourth place went to Russia in 3:41.56.<\/p>\n Australia’s team touched fifth in 3:43.57, while Germany was sixth\u00a0in 3:45.34. Brazil’s team took seventh in the final heat with their time of 3:46.53. Eighth place in the final event of the evening went to South Africa, whose team touched the wall in 3:52.09.<\/p>\n Capped\u00a0off by\u00a0an amazing World Junior record-breaking relay by Team Canada, day five finals of the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships in Indianapolis were full of broken World and championship records,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4277,"featured_media":275294,"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":[3,49268,49262,10],"tags":[59512],"class_list":["post-275319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-featured-meet-coverage","category-meet-recaps","category-world","tag-2017-fina-world-junior-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n\n
Women’s 1500 Free Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMen’s 100\u00a0Free Semi-Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nWomen’s 100 Fly\u00a0Semi-Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMen’s 50 Fly Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nWomen’s 50 Free Semi-Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMen’s 50 Breast Semi-Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nWomen’s 50 Back Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMen’s 400 IM Finals<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nWomen’s 4×100 Free Relay Finals<\/h3>\n
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