2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th
- Budapest, Hungary
- LCM (50m)
- Full Competition Schedule
- Meet Info
- Psych Sheets
- Omega Results
- Pick ’em Contest
- Event-by-Event Previews
The penultimate preliminary session from Budapest will feature five events, including three 50m races starting things off.
The women’s splash n’ dash goes first, where Sarah Sjostrom and Simone Manuel will swim side-by-side after Manuel’s massive upset over the Swede in the 100 free final. Despite that hiccup, Sjostrom is still the favorite here and overall has performed well.
Those two will swim in the 10th and final heat, with Pernille Blume and Ranomi Kromowidjojo highlighting the other two circle-seeded heats. Both have performed very well here, especially Blume who won bronze in the 100 free after failing to make the final in Rio. She is the reigning Olympic gold medalist in this event, however, and Kromowidjojo was the champ back in 2012.
The men’s 50 back will be a fun one, with a few of the competitors making their individual debuts here in Budapest. One of those is Frenchman Camille Lacourt, who will look for the three-peat in his last competitive meet. His countryman Jérémy Stravius will join him in the 5th of 7 heats.
100m back winner Xu Jiayu centers heat 6, joined by Japan’s Junya Koga. In the last heat we’ll see Justin Ress make his Worlds debut from lane 4, and 2015 silver medalist Matt Grevers and Australian Mitch Larkin will have lanes 5 and 6.
The three fastest performers in history, Ruta Meilutyte, Yuliya Efimova and Lilly King highlight heats 4, 5 and 6 of the women’s 50 breast, and all have a legit shot at gold. Defending champion Jennie Johansson joins Meilutyte in heat 4, and Great Britain’s Sarah Vasey and 100 breast silver medalist Katie Meili will both have lane 5 in heats 5 and 6.
Next will be the mixed 4×100 free relay, where there will be a total of 26 teams competing in three heats.
After winning the men’s and women’s 100 free titles, as well as the men’s and women’s 400 free relays, both for the first time simultaneously since 1991, the Americans will be the heavy favorites here. They’ll swim in heat 1, with the Italians and Russians in heat 2 and Australia, Hungary, Netherlands, France and Canada all contesting heat 3. Lineups will be announced prior to prelims.
The men’s 1500 will wrap things up with a total of four heats. Park Tae Hwan will swim out of one of the non-circle-seeded heats, holding lane 4 in heat 2.
Heat 3 will have Australians Mack Horton and Jack McLoughlin in the middle of the pool, with Felix Auboeck, Wojciech Wojdak and Sun Yang all in there as well.
The last heat will feature Italians Gregorio Paltrinieri and Gabriele Detti, the Olympic gold and bronze medalists from last summer. Mykhailo Romanchuk will hit the water for the first time at the meet, as will Americans True Sweetser and Robert Finke who make their Worlds debuts from lanes 1 and 8.
Because Australia doesn’t have an entry time, in the 4oom Mixed relay it is in Lane 0 next to Aruba and the Maldives!!!!! Funny.
My guess is Dressel doesn’t swim the mixed relay in prelims or finals. It’s not an Olympic event, and that would make three races in one night if he swam finals.
Dressel will have a triple tonight? Assuming he is included in the mixed free relay. Wowzers.
Is the relay at the end? I certainly hope so.
Relays are before the 1500’s
But it is after his individual races.
With Sjostrom’s defeat at 100 free the contents for the best swimmer of the world championships title is alive again. For Sjostrom to get this award is necessary to win 50 free. That is very possible, but we’ve learned today that things happen. For Ledecky in case of Sjostrom winning 50 free she must swim 800 with world record time for the tie. That is most likely not happening. If Sjostrom fails to win 50 free then for Ledecky to win this title is necessary to win 800.
For Hosszu the only possible situation is when Ledecky loses 800, Sjostrom loses 50 free and she wins 200back and 400IM. That is most likely won’t happen.
I don’t know which is brighter: Baker’s boots or Seebohm’s pearly whites ?
Looking forward to see how Shayna goes in the 50m free heats!
Excited to see Weitzeil race in the 50 heats. Also excited for to see Lacourt race the 50 back. He’s got really good form IMO.
Dressel not swimming in the morning. Save that incredible speed for when it counts! Excited for what history we may see tomorrow.
He has zero swims until tomorrow evening. ☺
I remember just 3 or so years ago considering Dressel a pure out sprint guy. Now when you look at what he accomplishes in the last 15 meters it reminds me of something out of phelps’ ’08 or ’09 repertoire. Troy has done an amazing job with Dressel allowing him to take on so many more roles for USA swimming than just a freestyler. His butterfly has shocked the world this year, but I suspect his breaststroke and backstroke have similar potential. The guy has been a 51 100 Breast in yards on medley relays. 200 IM could be a real threat come Tokyo.
Am I the only one who wonders what this kid could do in a 200 fly with another year of training?
He’s the one who said it. He consistently signs up for events like the 200 free (at world champs trials) because he doesn’t want to become known as only a sprinter. 200 fly would seem like a logical, although ballsy, move. If he could swim it Le Clos like but with some real endurance he could move one step closer to filling Phelps’ big shoes.
He said himself that he doesn’t want to be known as a sprinter. He can race pretty much anything – some training and some big balls and he can muster a 200 fly that would challenge anyone come Tokyo. Imagine if he swims the 200 fly like Le Clos….
Also remember that he did a 55.80 LCM 100 Back in Atlanta in May, early season. Troy has done a great job with an incredible talented kid.
I really want to see what he can do in a tapered 200 IM. He is the best of Manaudou and Lochte combined. He had the top time in the country in the 200y IM last year in the NCAA before conference championships started. He went 1:42, closing in a 23.3! Who does that?? Troy has trained more guys to swim under 1:59 in the 200 IM than any coach in the world. If Caeleb wants it, he can absolutely be the next great 200 IMmer.
Can you imagine the pressure knowing that everyone is waiting for a new world record tomorrow night in the 100 fly? Wow. Hats off and kudos to Caleb. He is special. Phelps is gone (maybe), but Caleb can help us stop mourning for Michael with an other-worldly 100 fly tomorrow night.
If Caleb gets that WR I’m guessing he might be a bit more cordial to Schooling next to him that Phelps was to Cavic in ’09 when the record was set 🙂
“Practice swim this B****”
Ok…probably not
“Do I get 1,000,000 dollars now Joe?” 🙂
I don’t think he breaks 50. I’m guessing 21.19 and 50.11. Hope in wrong though 🙂
i guess like 21.10 & 49.97 !!!