{"id":391812,"date":"2019-08-23T23:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=391812"},"modified":"2019-08-24T05:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:32:26","slug":"2019-world-junior-swimming-championships-day-5-prelims-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2019-world-junior-swimming-championships-day-5-prelims-live-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 World Junior Swimming Championships Day 5 Prelims: Torri Huske, Claire Curzan a Hundredth Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Junior Swimming Championships (Torri Huske, Claire Curzan)
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Budapest, Day 5 Prelims<\/em><\/p>\n

Torri Huske<\/strong> and Claire Curzan<\/strong> of the U.S. took the top seeds in the 100 fly, just a hundredth of a second apart on the fifth morning of action at the World Junior Championships in the Hungarian capital. They were two of several strong swims during the session.<\/p>\n

The morning after a 1:46.1 blast delivering the last 200m of a 4x200m World junior record<\/a> and gold for the USA, Carson Foster<\/strong> set up a shot at gold in the 400m medley after having established the World junior record at U.S. Championships<\/a> at the beginning of this month.<\/p>\n

The fastest heat of the 1500m freestyle for girls this evening will feature Lani Pallister<\/strong>, the Australian gunning for what would be a third distance freestyle golds after wins in the 800m<\/a> and then the 400m<\/a>. On the cards, a debut sub-16min effort.<\/p>\n

The first event of the session was the men\u2019s 100 free, followed by the women\u2019s 100 butterfly, men\u2019s 400 IM, women\u2019s 50 free and men\u2019s 50 breaststroke, followed by the women\u2019s 4×100 free relay.<\/p>\n

Prelim reports below.<\/p>\n