5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2015
- Tuesday, August 25th – Sunday, August 30th
- OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore
- Prelims 10 am (GMT+8)/ in USA = previous day 10 pm EDT, 7 pm PDT
- Finals 6 pm (GMT+ 8)/ in USA = 6 am EDT, 3 am PDT
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Men’s 200m Individual Medley Heats
- WR: 1:54.00 Ryan Lochte (USA) 28 JUL 2011 Shanghai (CHN)
- CR: 1:59.44 Gunnar Bentz (USA) 27 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)
- WJ: 1:59. 44 Gunnar Bentz (USA) 27 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)
The top time heading into the circle-seeded heats came from Joao Vital of Portugal, who clocked a 2:07.63, but it took a 2:02.67 to land in the top 8 and make it back to finals. In the following heat, Hungary’s Daniel Sos won with 2:02.19 to set the pace for the remaining swims. Australia’s Clyde Lewis dropped 2.5 seconds and won the next heat in 2:00.50, ahead of Hugo Gonzalez of Spain (2:01.88) and USA’s Sean Grieshop (2:02.26).
The final heat featured a blowout by USA’s Michael Andrew, who won by a couple of body lengths with 1:59.86, his first sub-2:00 swim and a mere .02 short of Andrew Seliskar’s U.S. NAG Record.
Top-eight qualifiers are: Andrew (1:59.86), Lewis (2:00.50), Gonzalez (2:01.88), Sos (2:02.19), Grieshop (2:02.26), Javier Acevedo of Canada (2:02.32), Great Britain’s Martyn Walton (2:02.51), and Nikolai Sokolov of Russia with 2:02.67.
Women’s 100m Freestyle Heats
- WR: 52.07 Britta Steffen (GER) 31 JUL 2009 Rome (ITA)
CR: 54.47 Siobhan Haughey (HKG) 28 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)- WJ: 53.84 Shen Duo (CHN) 19 AUG 2014 Nanjing (CHN)
Canada’s Taylor Ruck blew away the field, as well as the Championship Record, with a 53.95 win in the final heat of prelims in women’s 100m free. She was all alone over the last 20 meters, finishing 2 body lengths ahead and leading the qualifiers into semi-finals with the only sub-54, and almost the only sub-55.
Rikako Ikee of Japan qualified second with 54.92. Penny Oleksiak of Canada (55.07), who just out-touched USA’s Stanzi Moseley (55.30) in her heat, was the third through to semi-finals.
Qualifying fourth was Russia’s Arina Openysheva in 55.28. Australia’s Lucy McJannett (55.31) and Shayna Jack (55.48) qualified sixth and seventh, while Japan’s Sachi Mochida (55.67) turned in the eighth-fastest time. Lauren Pitzer of USA went 55.85 to make semi-finals, as well. The 16th time closed the door at 56.64.
Men’s 100m Butterfly Heats
- WR: 49.82 Michael Phelps (USA) 1 AUG 2009 Rome (ITA)
- CR: 52.52 Daniel Bell (NZL) 9 JUL 2008 Monterrey (MEX)
- WJ: 51.33 Li Zhuhao (CHN) 7 AUG 2015 Kazan (RUS)
Top-seeded Daniil Pakhomov of Russia, who was entered with 52.13, led the morning’s qualifiers with 52.96 in the final heat. Brazil’s Vinicius Lanza had been 53.34 in the previous heat, and wound up second overall.
Russia’s Daniil Antipov went 53.53 to take his heat and qualify third; he came in just ahead of Michael Andrew (53.67), sixth overall. Andrew’s teammate Ryan Hoffer (53.61), Alberto Lozano of Spain (53.65), Michal Chudy of Poland (53.95), and Brazil’s Henrique Painhas (54.02) also made semi-finals. Dominic Richardson of Australia qualified 16th with 54.65.
Women’s 200m Butterfly Heats
- WR: 2:01.81 Liu Zige (CHN) 21 OCT 2009 Ji Nan (CHN)
- CR: 2:08.10 Akiyama Natsuki (JPN) 9 JUL 2008 Monterrey (MEX)
- WJ: 2:06.51 Zhang Yufei (CHN) 6 AUG 2015 Kazan (RUS)
The Americans led the way through to finals in the women’s 200m fly, although by a slim margin. Cassidy Bayer and Hannah Kukurugya put on a show in the middle lanes of the final heat, trading stroke for stroke and essentially touching the wall in unison. Bayer got the edge, 2:10.32 to 2:10.42, and the pair will once again find themselves in lanes 4 and 5 in tonight’s final.
Wang Siqi of China dropped 1.7 second to win her heat with 2:10.99, the third-fastest time of the morning. Australia’s Tasmin Cook was right behind Wang with 2:11.33. Great Britain’s Holly Hibbott was right behind Bayer and Kukurugya in the last heat, qualifying fifth overall with 2:12.02.
Also making it through to the final were Hungary’s Boglarka Bonecz (2:12.63), Haruno Ito of Japan (2:12.69), and Carmen Balbuena of Spain (2:12.71).
Men’s 200m Freestyle Heats
- WR: 1:42.00 Paul Biedermann (GER) 28 JUL 2009 Rome (ITA)
- CR: 1:47.55 Mack Horton (AUS) 27 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)
- WJ: 1:47.23 Sakata Reo (JPN) 7 SEP 2014 Yokohama (JPN)
Aleksey Tarasenko (UZB) set the pace early on with a 2.2-second improvement over his seed time and a heat win with 1:52.83. Ricardo Vargas of Mexico followed in the next heat with 1:51.53 to lead the field heading into the circle-seeded heats. Australia’s Damian Fyfe ripped a best-by-1.4 to win his heat in 1:49.28, a time that put him second overall. USA’s Grant Shoults went 1:50.05 to win the next heat and qualify sixth for finals.
The final heat, though, was all Maxime Rooney. He tore through his four laps in 1:47.86, missing the Championship Record by .63. Joining him in tonight’s final will be: Fyfe (1:49.21), Russia’s Elisei Stepanov (1:49.72), Cameron Kurle of Great Britain (1:49.90), Ernest Maksumov of Russia (1:49.97), Shoults (1:50.05), Mohamed Mehdi Lagili of Tunisia (1:50.21), and Brazil’s Felipe Souza (1:50.54).
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Heats
- WR: 3:41.71 Great Britain (GBR) 5 AUG 2015 Kazan (RUS)
- CR: 3:48.89 Russia (RUS) 27 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)
- WJ: 3:48.89 Russia (RUS) 27 AUG 2013 Dubai (UAE)
Team USA put up the fastest time in heats of the mixed medley relay, with a configuration of Austin Katz (56.01), Reece Whitley (1:00.81), Lauren Case (1:00.03), and Stanzi Moseley (55.49).
Turkey and Italy battled for second place in that heat; Italy ultimately prevailed, but by only .57 thanks in part to a 1:06.4 breaststroke split by Turkey’s Viktoria Gunes. Turkey ended up with a disqualification, however, and will not contest the final. Italy (Martina Rossi, Nicolo Martinenghi, Aurora Petronio, and Alessandro Bori) wound up fourth with 3:54.04.
With 3:53.18, Russia was the second-fastest team through to finals behind Mariia Kameneva (1:01.56), Mariia Astashkina (1:08.90), Vladislav Kozlov (53.06), and Igor Shadrin (49.66). Australia qualified third in 3:53.80 with Tristan Ludlow (56.33), Grayson Bell (1:02.88), Lucia Lassman (59.05), and Gemma Cooney (55.54).
The remaining qualifiers were Japan (3:54.97), Canada (3:55.08), China (3:56.38), and Brazil (3:58.55).
Women’s 800m Freestyle + B29 – Slow Heats
- WR: 8:07.39 Katie Ledecky (USA) 8 AUG 2015 Kazan (RUS)
- CR: 8:32.30 Bonnie MacDonald (AUS) 17 AUG 2011 Lima (PER)
- WJ: 8:11.00 Katie Ledecky (USA) 22 JUN 2014 Shenandoah (USA)
The time to beat in tonight’s final of the women’s 800m free will be Janka Juhasz of Hungary’s 8:40.07 from the last of the morning heats. Dong Fuwei of China had a 10-second drop to win her heat with 8:41.85, while Spain’s Laura Rodriguez (8:44.00), Canada’s Olivia Anderson (8:44.50), Yang Chang of China (8:44.54), Antoinette Neamt of Ireland (8:46.45), Mikayla Messer of Australia (8:47.80), and Germany’s Lisa Katharina Hopink (8:47.91) also rose to the top of the field during the morning session.
Where was the sage wisdom and direction that should have been given by the American coaching team to an inexperienced teen swimmer. I feel sad that they would get caught up in the hype and let Michael crash and burn. As a parent (and I know his parents coach ) we trust our coaches to make decisions to help our athletes be their best. How to destroy the confidence of a young kid…
Breaking news
The American swimming federation tries to get hold of Vlad Morozov, Santo Condorelli and Taylor Ruck.
It will be hard for the Russian sprinter as Russia has promised a new world war if Morozov swims for USA. And Vlad would have to swim with bodyguards around him at every meet to stay alive.
Canada accepts to lose Santo Condorelli and Taylor Ruck to USA only, and only if USA accepts to keep Justin Bieber on its territory and naturalize him American.
Usa will throw in Donald trump and call it even!
Vlad’s stock went down after Worlds like the Chinese stock market. Not sure he’s in a “buy” position.
53.96 in prelims. Ruck proves once again she’s gonna be a very very very special swimmer in the next years. Her long body is built for swimming. And she still has so much power to add. It’s scary. 4 or 5 gold medals are possible for her this week.
Hopefully MA will not lose everything this afternoon. On paper he can finish third in the 100 back, second in the 100 breast and must win the 200 IM. But he also has a 100 fly semifinal. The 200 IM is his last race of the session. If he can win it after 3 races under his belt, I will be much much much impressed. I just hope he finishes the… Read more »
Thoughts on finals tonight:
Mens 100 back- Would love to see Michael Taylor win this one with a 54.2ish swim. I would also love for MA just to medal with 54.5ish. Should be a fantastic race, I honestly have no idea who will win, aren’t there like 4 legitimate contenders for gold?
Women’s 200 fly- Just want Bayer to go 2:07 mid, nothing else matters really. 2:07 should almost certainly be good for gold.
Men’s 200 free- Realistically, I see Rooney going 1:46.6; however, my dream scenario is for him to break Phelps NAG of 1:45.99. If he doesn’t get it, that is fine seeing as he is still 17 with another year to break it. Very excited for this… Read more »
Why do you have a paragraph for every men’s race and one maybe two lines for the women’s races? If you’re going to comment on each event then do so, but don’t tell us if you don’t care.
Where was Chalmers in the 200 free?
That is close to Rooneys on right?
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Rooney will easily win.. Big let down of Miressi.. 2nd seed and out of final..
Rooney eased up on that last 50. He’ll be a 1:46 mid by the end of the weekend.