{"id":533536,"date":"2023-07-25T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=533536"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T01:56:07","slug":"world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The same crew of stars from the women\u2019s 100 backstroke Tuesday night reconvened Wednesday morning, and the preliminary results remained fast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regan Smith<\/strong> paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds. The top four from the 100 were all assembled, with <strong>Kylie Masse<\/strong> following in 27.48, then <strong>Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> in 27.56 and <strong>Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> in 27.60.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2023-world-aquatics-championships\">World Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2023\/world-aquatics-championships-sw-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The field is coming off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-3-finals-kaylee-mckeown-outduels-regan-smith-for-meet-record-in-100-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 back the night prior<\/a>, won by McKeown in 57.73. Smith was second in a fine time of 57.78, with Berkoff third in 58.25 and Masse fourth in 59.09.<\/p>\n<p>Berkoff is one of the few contenders in this event who will also swim the morning prelims of the mixed medley relay. She\u2019ll lead off for the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Masse, the reigning champion, led the first circle-seeded heat in 27.48. As she\u2019s been most of this week, <strong>Ingrid Wilm<\/strong> was by her side, in 27.75.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and McKeown were matched up in the second circle-seeded heat, Smith winning in 27.31. McKeown was easily second in 27.60 with <strong>Wan Leitan,<\/strong> another 100 back finalist, third in 27.84.<\/p>\n<p>Berkoff was the silver medalist in this event last year. Bronze medalist <strong>Analia Pigree<\/strong> of France finished 12th. She\u2019s the second Frenchwoman in, with teen <strong>Mary-Ambre Moluh<\/strong> finishing fifth in 27.69. Both Wan and <strong>Wang Xueer<\/strong> (ninth) will represent China in the final. The Netherlands\u2019 <strong>Maaike de Waard,<\/strong> like Berkoff, is on double duty with the relay. She coasted home in 10th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mollie O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong> of Australia scratched out; she had been in Lane 3 of the final heat. Among the surprise exits was <strong>Kira Toussaint,<\/strong> who was eighth in the first circle-seeded heat in 28.41. She was 21st overall. <strong>Louise Hansson<\/strong> was eighth in her heat in 28.42, failing to make semifinals in 22nd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"533542\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/w50backprelims\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1423,883\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"W50backprelims\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;W50backprelims&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-1024x635.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-533542\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims.jpg\" alt=\"W50backprelims\" width=\"650\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims.jpg 1423w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-1024x635.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-280x174.jpg 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-450x279.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-1200x745.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/W50backprelims-533x331.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims The same crew of stars from the women\u2019s 100 backstroke Tuesday night reconvened Wednesday morning, and the preliminary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":476918,"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":[3,122074,122075,7,10],"tags":[70622,128783,51545,56016,26270,31274,57417,130657,132859,77839,45350,43926],"class_list":["post-533536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","category-oceania","category-usa","category-world","tag-2023-world-aquatics-championships","tag-analia-pigree","tag-ingrid-wilm","tag-katharine-berkoff","tag-kylie-masse","tag-louise-hansson","tag-maaike-de-waard","tag-mary-ambre-moluh","tag-maylee-mckeown","tag-mollie-ocallaghan","tag-regan-smith","tag-wang-xueer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Worlds, Day 4: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdoctormd\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\"},\"headline\":\"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\"},\"wordCount\":302,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 World Aquatics Championships\",\"Analia Pigree\",\"Ingrid Wilm\",\"Katharine Berkoff\",\"Kylie Masse\",\"Louise Hansson\",\"Maaike de Waard\",\"Mary-Ambre Moluh\",\"Maylee McKeown\",\"Mollie O\u2019Callaghan\",\"Regan Smith\",\"Wang Xueer\"],\"articleSection\":[\"-Home Slider\",\"Europe\",\"Oceania\",\"USA\",\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\",\"name\":\"Worlds, Day 4: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00\",\"description\":\"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\",\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\"},\"description\":\"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Worlds, Day 4: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims","description":"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims","og_description":"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdoctormd","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/"},"author":{"name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3"},"headline":"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims","datePublished":"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/"},"wordCount":302,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","keywords":["2023 World Aquatics Championships","Analia Pigree","Ingrid Wilm","Katharine Berkoff","Kylie Masse","Louise Hansson","Maaike de Waard","Mary-Ambre Moluh","Maylee McKeown","Mollie O\u2019Callaghan","Regan Smith","Wang Xueer"],"articleSection":["-Home Slider","Europe","Oceania","USA","World"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/","name":"Worlds, Day 4: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","datePublished":"2023-07-26T01:54:05+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-26T01:56:07+00:00","description":"Regan Smith paced a studded field with a time of 27.31 seconds in prelims of the 50 backstroke on Wednesday morning.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-4-prelims-regan-smith-leads-poised-50-back-prelims\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Regan Smith Leads Poised 50 Back Prelims"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3","name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer"},"description":"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/katherine-berkoff-o-trials-2021-3691.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2eNq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}