{"id":58826,"date":"2014-07-11T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/?p=58826"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T21:54:27","slug":"commonwealth-games-swimming-medal-predictions-close-battles-for-podium-spots-shaping-up-in-50-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/commonwealth-games-swimming-medal-predictions-close-battles-for-podium-spots-shaping-up-in-50-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games Swimming Medal Predictions: Close Battles For Podium Spots Shaping Up In 50 Backstroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Each day through July 23, Swimming World\u2019s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July 24 in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Commentary by Jeff Commings<\/i><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX, Arizona, July 11. AS the only man in the Commonwealth nations to break 25 seconds in the 50 backstroke this year with a 24.54, Ben Treffers looks like the clear-cut favorite to win the sprint event in Glasgow. Like the other 50-meter events, this could also be an unpredictable race and put the Aussie on his heels.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Tancock is the defending champion, but his lack of hard training in 2013 while he recovered from shoulder injury might affect his ability to get back to the top of the podium. Tancock will not only have to get past Treffers in the final, but his fellow Englishman Chris Walker-Hebborn. Three of the other Commonwealth swimmers globally ranked in the top 25 in the 50 backstroke \u2013 Robert Hurley, Gerhard Zandberg and Daniel Arnamnart \u2013 are not on their respective country\u2019s rosters, so this is shaping up to be a toss-up in terms of picking medalists.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men\u2019s 50 backstroke medal prediction:<br \/>\nGold:<\/b> Ben Treffers, Australia<br \/>\n<b>Silver:<\/b> Chris Walker-Hebborn, England<br \/>\n<b>Bronze:<\/b> Liam Tancock, England<\/p>\n<p>The gold and silver medalists in the women\u2019s 50 backstroke from 2010, Sophie Edington and Gemma Spofforth, are retired, leaving the joint bronze medalists from Delhi as the hot favorites in Glasgow. Georgia Davies and Emily Seebohm tied with times of 28.33. Both have swum under 28 seconds in 2014 already, with Davies slightly ahead with a 27.80 to Seebohm\u2019s 27.95. Sandwiched between them in the world rankings is Lauren Quigley, which would make this a race to be decided by hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, the advantage goes to Davies and Quigley, with both making the 50 back final at world championships last year. The two seem to specialize in the shorter distance more than Seebohm, though you can\u2019t underestimate Seebohm\u2019s speed when it matters most. The 50 back final comes after the 100 back, which Seebohm is picked to win, and that could give her a boost for the shorter backstroke race.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women\u2019s 50 backstroke medal prediction:<br \/>\nGold:<\/b> Emily Seebohm, Australia<br \/>\n<b>Silver:<\/b> Georgia Davies, Wales<br \/>\n<b>Bronze:<\/b> Lauren Quigley, England<\/p>\n<p><b>Check out our previous medal predictions by clicking the links below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39829.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>800\/1500 freestyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39812.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>200 individual medley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39801.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>50 freestyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39787.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>50 breaststroke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39776.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>100 backstroke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/lane9\/news\/World\/39769.asp target=\u201d_blank\u201d>200 butterfly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day through July 23, Swimming World\u2019s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":58828,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[27556,31273,1265,30774,12809,27550,33340,25077,34957,575,26825,32008,31105,4385,1159,13126,24693,142,2444,165],"class_list":["post-58826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ben-treffers","tag-chris-walker-hebborn","tag-commonwealth-day","tag-daniel-arnamnart","tag-delhi","tag-emily-seebohm","tag-gemma-spofforth","tag-georgia-davies","tag-gerhard-zandberg","tag-glasgow","tag-lauren-quigley","tag-liam-tancock","tag-robert-hurley","tag-scotland","tag-shoulder-injury","tag-sophie-edington","tag-sports","tag-swimming","tag-the-commonwealth-games","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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