2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships: Day 8 Preview

2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2019 FINA World Championships have just one day left of competition to go. The final prelims session of the meet will feature the men’s and women’s 400 IM followed by the men’s and women’s 4×100 medley relays.

Day 8 Prelims Events:

  • Men’s 400 IM- Preliminaries
  • Women’s 400 IM- Preliminaries
  • Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay- Preliminaries
  • Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay- Preliminaries

With the meet shifting in a different direction after the sudden burst from the Americans, many medley relay could have member switch-ups to get the prime order. One of the big debates is who will swim backstroke for the American women’s medley relay. Kathleen Baker and Olivia Smoliga were the top 2 Americans in the 100 back, however, Regan Smith has been heavily considered to join the relay after her world record performance in the 200 back.

Day 8 Morning Session Top Storylines to Follow:

  • After winning the 200 IM, Japan’s Daiya Seto is primed to gain his 3rd 400 IM world title after winning back-to-back in 2013 and 2015. Do not count out American Chase Kalisz, who is the defending world champion in this event. In the 200 IM, Kalisz was dethroned by Seto and will definitely have bad blood to defend another title of his.
  • Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu will be in pursual of her 4th-consecutive 400 IM world title. If she wins the final later in the evening, she will become undefeated in the IM events since 2013.
  • 2012 Olympic champion Ye Shiwen has revamped her former success and climbing back to the top after her silver medal in the 200 IM. Ye will chase down her second medal of these championships in the 400 IM and aim to become the first Chinese event medalist since 1998.
  • Sydney Pickrem has picked up 2 medals thus far at these championships in the 200 IM and 200 breast. Pickrem will become one of the most decorated Canadian females in swimming if she can repeat a medal in the 400 IM.
  • Coming back to defend their 2017 world title and world record will be the American women’s 4×100 medley relay. We should expect to see Lilly King on breast, Kelsi Dahlia on fly, and Simone Manuel on free. Yet after Regan Smith‘s 200 back world record, could Kathleen Baker‘s spot from the world record performance be swapped with the 17-year-old phenom?
  • Continuing their momentum will be the American men as they will shoot for their 3rd-consecutive 4×100 medley relay title and 14th title ever. Caeleb Dressel will be a weapon for the Americans as one of three men in 100 fly history to swim under 50 seconds from a flat start. Ryan Murphy and Andrew Wilson should fill in the back/breast spots and will need to work hard to cushion Dressel. The anchor leg will be down to Zach Apple, who went 46.86 in the free relay, veteran Nathan Adrian, or 100 free US National champ Blake Pieroni.

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Woke Stasi
4 years ago

Let’s go Brooke Forde! It’s gotta be tough waiting until Day 8 for your first competitive swim — betcha that you really have to pace your emotional energy in the week leading up to this.

Signed,
The Brooke Forde 250 Fan Club!

torchbearer
4 years ago

General question- has anyone found the official championships site impossible to navigate, slow to load times etc..basically useless.. or am I just getting old?

MTK
Reply to  torchbearer
4 years ago

Use omega timing’s site

swimmer1234
4 years ago

Interested to see GB women medley line up, do they use Renshaw or O’Connor for breast, O’connor or Thomas for Fly and Hopkin or Anderson for Free. Unlike the mens medley relay they have lots of options to rest swimmers.

Really
4 years ago

“Kalisz was dethroned by Seto and will definitely have bad blood to defend another title of his”

wrong analogy

MTK
Reply to  Really
4 years ago

*”be out for blood”

Ragnar
4 years ago

Smith better be in relay finals. Hosszu is gonna crush it

Brownish
Reply to  Ragnar
4 years ago

Hope so but after 200back? Donno.

Pvdh
Reply to  Brownish
4 years ago

I think she tanked that race after seeing Regans time in the semis

Brownish
Reply to  Pvdh
4 years ago

Yeah, but from 2nd it was nearly free. If we are going from the base 4 IM has much more chance for her than 2IM. So I don’t know. Perheps in about 20 minutes.

SeanSwim
4 years ago

Hopefully
Prelims – Smoliga-Sumrall-McLaughlin-Comerford
Finals – Smith-King-Dahlia-Manuel

Hopefully
Prelims – Grevers-Andrew?-Conger OR Seliskar?-Pieroni
Finals – Murphy-Wilson-Dressel-Adrian

*Conger was only 51 high here and Seliskar went 51.4 in season

anonymous
Reply to  SeanSwim
4 years ago

MA said on his instagram he was in prelims on relay

MTK
Reply to  SeanSwim
4 years ago

Possibly Apple on free?

Iain
4 years ago

Medley Relays – using times from this meet

Men’s
USA – R. Murphy, A. Wilson, C. Dressel, B. Pieroni
52.44, 58.95, 49.50, 47.87 – 3:28.76
RUS – E. Rylov, K. Prigoda, A. Minakov, V. Grinev
51.97, 59.09, 50.83, 47.82 – 3:29.71
GBR – L. Greenbank, A. Peaty, J. Guy, D. Scott
53.75, 56.88, 51.62, 47.97 – 3:30.22
AUS – M. Larkin, M. Wilson, M. Temple, K. Chalmers
52.77, 59.17, 51.51, 47.08 – 3:30.53
CHN – J. Xu, Z. Yan, Z. Li, J. He
52.17, 58.63, 52.00, 48.67 – 3:31.47
BRA – G. Guido, J. Gomes Junior, V. Lanza, M. Chierighini
52.95, 59.25, 51.83, 47.76 – 3:31.79
JPN… Read more »

torchbearer
Reply to  Iain
4 years ago

……

Christina
Reply to  Iain
4 years ago

Impressive work but where do you get the times from? Just by looking at the womens, you have Campbell at 52.43 when she has consistently gone 51+ for relays and somehow Comerford at 52.04? Comerford has never gone faster than Campbell.

Nswim
4 years ago

How I feel about this meet ending

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So sad to see it go

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Nick Pecoraro

Nick has had the passion for swimming since his first dive in the water in middle school, immediately falling for breaststroke. Nick had expanded to IM events in his late teens, helping foster a short, but memorable NCAA Div III swim experience at Calvin University. While working on his B.A. …

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