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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It was a massive day 8 in terms of total points, with 8 medal finals, but a relatively predictable day in terms of upsets. That left Joker23 atop our leaderboard as the official winner of our 2017 World Championships Pick ‘Em Contest.
Most days yielded point-values somewhere in the 60s to our top players; day 8 brought nearly 100 points to aceiknow, who led the day with 98.
Congrats to all who entered. You can see your full day-by-day scores and review your picks at the link above. We’ll be reaching out to prize-winners soon to coordinate your awards.
DAY 8 LEADERS
| Rank | Event | Day 8 Points |
| 1 | aceiknow | 98 |
| 2 | mefowler | 97 |
| 3 | tgo63 | 94 |
| 4 | Dcrabbe6 | 92 |
| 5 | finniewinnie | 91 |
| 5 | Ndanus1010 | 91 |
| 5 | Kwazii | 91 |
| 8 | Gbc | 90 |
| 8 | Alexswimswe | 90 |
| 10 | Blomgren | 89 |
| 10 | rono6100 | 89 |
Overall Leaders
| Rank | Event | Total Points |
| 1 | Joker23 | 363 |
| 2 | Captain Ahab | 352 |
| 3 | ThatSwimKid | 344.5 |
| 4 | Quinn | 331 |
| 4 | Junker23 | 331 |
| 6 | GatorFan4000 | 328 |
| 6 | james7187 | 328 |
| 8 | Blomgren | 324 |
| 9 | Thomas Selig | 322.5 |
| 9 | tgo63 | 322.5 |
HOW EVERYONE DID
It was a relatively predictable day based on picks, with 7 of the 8 events having 78% or more of players pick the correct winner. The only relative upset was in the men’s 50 back, where France’s Camille Lacourt only got 11% of the winner picks.
| Event | Winner | % Correctly Predicted |
| Men’s 50 back | Camille Lacourt | 11% |
| Men’s 400 IM | Chase Kalisz | 78% |
| Women’s 50 breast | Lilly King | 86% |
| Men’s 1500 free | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 89% |
| Women’s 50 free | Sarah Sjostrom | 93% |
| Men’s 4×100 medley relay | USA | 95% |
| Women’s 4×100 medley relay | USA | 99% |
| Women’s 400 IM | Katinka Hosszu | 100% |
Katinka Hosszu got the coveted 100% of winner picks, which we’ve only seen a few times this meet – the other three were for Katie Ledecky in the 400, 800 and 1500 frees. Here’s a look at all of the events, sorted from most-predicted to least-predicted in terms of winner picks:
| Rank | Event | Winner | % Correctly Predicted |
| 1 | Women’s 1500 free | Katie Ledecky | 100% |
| 1 | Women’s 400 free | Katie Ledecky | 100% |
| 1 | Women’s 400 IM | Katinka Hosszu | 100% |
| 1 | Women’s 800 free | Katie Ledecky | 100% |
| 5 | Men’s 100 breast | Adam Peaty | 99% |
| 5 | Men’s 4×100 free relay | USA | 99% |
| 5 | Women’s 4×100 medley relay | USA | 99% |
| 5 | Women’s 4×200 free relay | USA | 99% |
| 9 | Men’s 50 breast | Adam Peaty | 98% |
| 9 | Women’s 100 fly | Sarah Sjostrom | 98% |
| 9 | Women’s 50 fly | Sarah Sjostrom | 98% |
| 12 | Women’s 200 IM | Katinka Hosszu | 96% |
| 13 | Men’s 4×100 medley relay | USA | 95% |
| 14 | Women’s 50 free | Sarah Sjostrom | 93% |
| 15 | Women’s 200 breast | Yulia Efimova | 92% |
| 16 | Men’s 1500 free | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 89% |
| 17 | Mixed 4×100 free relay | USA | 87% |
| 18 | Women’s 50 breast | Lilly King | 86% |
| 19 | Women’s 200 fly | Mireia Belmonte | 81% |
| 20 | Men’s 400 IM | Chase Kalisz | 78% |
| 20 | Women’s 4×100 free relay | USA | 78% |
| 22 | Mixed 4×100 medley relay | USA | 76% |
| 23 | Men’s 400 free | Sun Yang | 70% |
| 24 | Women’s 100 breast | Lilly King | 69% |
| 25 | Men’s 800 free | Gabriele Detti | 59% |
| 26 | Men’s 200 free | Sun Yang | 54% |
| 27 | Women’s 100 back | Kyle Masse | 52% |
| 28 | Men’s 100 back | Xu Jiayu | 36% |
| 29 | Men’s 50 free | Caeleb Dressel | 31% |
| 30 | Men’s 200 fly | Chad le Clos | 25% |
| 31 | Men’s 100 free | Caeleb Dressel | 18% |
| 32 | Men’s 100 fly | Caeleb Dressel | 17% |
| 33 | Men’s 200 back | Evgeny Rylov | 16% |
| 34 | Men’s 50 fly | Ben Proud | 15% |
| 35 | Men’s 200 IM | Chase Kalisz | 13% |
| 36 | Men’s 50 back | Camille Lacourt | 11% |
| 37 | Women’s 200 back | Emily Seebohm | 9% |
| 38 | Women’s 100 free | Simone Manuel | 7% |
| 39 | Men’s 4×200 free relay | Great Britain | 5% |
| 40 | Men’s 200 breast | Anton Chupkov | 3% |
| 41 | Women’s 50 back | Etiene Medeiros | 2% |
| 42 | Women’s 200 free | Federica Pellegrini | 1% |
A few more interesting stats from day 8:
- In the women’s medley relay, just one player correctly predicted Russia’s silver medal.
- In the men’s 400 IM, Kosuke Hagino appeared in the top 4 on 324 of 334 ballots, including 20% of winner picks and 60% of silver picks. He finished 6th.
- 4th-placers were the trickiest to call today. Jeremy Stravius was only on 5 ballots in the 50 back for any place, and Max Litchfield only on 12 ballots in any place in the 400 IM.
Adam Peaty didn’t get 100% of the picks in the 100 breast? What’s a guy gotta do? Also surprised 4% of people thought Hosszu would lose the 200 IM on home soil.
My best placing ever. But not high enough to end up on any of these leaderboards.
Thank goodness I lost by a lot.
But I did get Seebohm and Pelligrini, so v proud of myself.
First time finishing in top 10 !!! What a meet!
Congratulations joker23!