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
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A big day 7 vaulted joker23 back into the lead – he or she wins the day 7 total by 7 points and now leads the overall scores by 17.
Day 7 Leaders
| Rank | Event | Day 7 Points |
| 1 | Joker23 | 64 |
| 2 | Dwill | 57 |
| 3 | Leo | 56 |
| 4 | Ronan Mccarthy | 55 |
| 4 | SnorkelSnrekel | 55 |
| 6 | Harrison Andrews | 54.5 |
| 7 | arentchagladitsnot_yulia | 54 |
| 8 | swimswamsam | 53.5 |
| 9 | Paul Baxter | 53 |
| 10 | mgl10306 | 52 |
| 10 | Holland Hawkeye | 52 |
Overall Leaders
| Rank | Event | Total Points |
| 1 | Joker23 | 286 |
| 2 | Captain Ahab | 269 |
| 3 | ThatSwimKid | 265.5 |
| 4 | Junker23 | 258 |
| 5 | GatorFan4000 | 254 |
| 6 | james7187 | 253 |
| 7 | Blomgren | 252 |
| 8 | NickH | 251 |
| 9 | Paul Baxter | 249.5 |
| 10 | spa0102 | 248 |
How Everyone Did
There were three relatively easy-to-predict events on day 7, along with a few where the Pick ‘Em majority was head-scratchingly wrong.
| Event | Winner | % Correctly Predicted |
| Women’s 200 back | Emily Seebohm | 9% |
| Men’s 100 fly | Caeleb Dressel | 17% |
| Men’s 50 free | Caeleb Dressel | 31% |
| Mixed 4×100 free relay | USA | 87% |
| Women’s 50 fly | Sarah Sjostrom | 98% |
| Women’s 800 free | Katie Ledecky | 100% |
Every single player picked Katie Ledecky to win the 800, which shows how seriously everyone is taking this competition – it wasn’t worth sacrificing 7 points to jokingly select Dean Farris.
Meanwhile 98% of players picked Sarah Sjostrom to win the 50 fly. There were a handful of blank selections along with 3 picks for American Kelsi Worrell and one for Japan’s Rikako Ikee.
At the other end of the spectrum, only 9% of players saw Emily Seebohm winning the 200 back after a disastrous Olympics. Katinka Hosszu was the popular pick, with some Kathleen Bakers thrown in.
And Pick ‘Em players were thrown off in startingly high numbers by Joseph Schooling‘s now-infamous post-practice 50.7 in the 100 fly. Just 17% picked Caeleb Dressel to win even after beating Schooling head-to-head at NCAAs and hitting the world’s #1 time at U.S. Nationals. 77% of players picked Schooling, who wound up tying for 3rd in 50.8, certainly the first time in history a rumored practice swim has turned out to be faster than actual verified in-meet performance.
A few more stats of note:
- Not a single player picked Egypt’s Farida Osman anywhere in the top 4. She took bronze, Egypt’s first-ever Worlds medal.
- Likewise, no one picked Hungary’s Kristof Milak anywhere in the top 4 of the 100 fly. He took silver, ahead of Schooling and James Guy.
