The 2015 FINA World Championship Series is unique because the athletes will be competing in a 50 meter poor rather than the series’ traditional 25 meter pool.
After the first day of competition, Katinka Hosszu, Emily Seebohm, and Daria Ustinova separated themselves from the field by a slim margin. Hosszu leads with 24 points, but Seebhom and Ustinov aren’t far behind with 21 and 18 points, respectively.
The men’s race is much tighter, and the second day will be very important in the points and prize money race. Yesterday, nobody had two top 3 finishes, which leaves eight men tied for first with twelve points each.
2015 FINA WORLD CUP – MOSCOW
- August 11-12
- Finals 11 a.m EST
- Schedule/Live results
- FINA Live Stream
Women’s 100m Freestyle
Katinka Hosszu earned her third win of the 2015 World Cup Series, picking up 12 more points with her time of 54.10. She held of the Russia duo of Natalia Loctcova and Veronica Popova. They finished second and third at 54.62 and 54.73.
54 seconds was the ticket to points and the cash prize in this event today. Ariana Openysheva just missed the podium with her time of 55.38.
Men’s 200m Freestyle
Danila Izotov came up with a big swim to win the men’s 200 freestyle, posting a top time of 1:46.93. Izotov and Myles Brown were almost dead even through the first 150 meters, but his final 50 proved to be too much for Brown. The South African finished second with a time of 1:47.80. Nikita Lobintsev earned his six points, finishing third with his time of 1:47.83.
Jeremy Stravius of France just missed the podium, picking up a fourth place finish at 1:48.25.
Women’s 50m Breaststroke
The United States completed a sweep of the women’s 50 breaststroke, with Katie Meili leading the pack. Meili got her hand on the wall first to win the event in 30.76. Breeja Larson picked up a second place finish at 30.84, and Melanie Marsalis added a third place finish with a 31.44.
Men’s 100m Breaststroke
The World Championship silver medalist Cameron Van Der Burgh added another individual victory with a 59.27. He touched just ahead of the American breaststrokers, Nic Fink and Cody Miller. Fink was second with a 59.52 and Miller finished third at 1:00.07.
Men’s 100m Butterfly
Tom Shields is showing his consistency in the men’s 100 butterfly with another 51 low. Shields posted the fastest time of the session with a 51.46, taking down the 2015 World Champion, Chad le Clos. Despite his world championship title, Le Clos has made more headlines recently for what he has said out of the pool rather than in the pool, trash-talking World Record holder Michael Phelps. Le Clos finished in second with his time of 51.36.
Tim Phillips earned a third place finish as the final swimmer under 52 seconds at 51.75.
Women’s 100m Backstroke
Emily Seebohm ran away from the field on the first 50 of the women’s 200 backstroke and never slowed down, winning the event with a commanding 58.88. Katinka Hosszu earned her first second place finish of the competition with a 59.46, and Mie Nielsen picked up third place with a 1:00.52.
Daria Ustinova was just shy of another top 3 finish with her time of 1:00.62.
Men’s 50m Backstroke
The 50 backstroke World Champion Camille Lacourt continued to dominate the event in Moscow with a winning time of 24.67. Quah Zheng Wen finished second at 25.13, touching out Grigory Tarasevich by .01. Tarasevich finished third with a 25.14.
Women’s 200m Butterfly
Cammile Adams improved her time from the World championships where she won a silver medal with a 2:06.40. Today she won the women’s 200 butterfly with a time of 2:06.33.
The Women’s 200 butterfly was a quick event all around. Francisco Hentke finished second with a 2:06.51 and Madeline Groves finished third at 2:07.67.
Men’s 200m Medley
Philip Heintz won the men’s 200 IM with a time of 1:58.48. American Chase Kalisz finished second with a time of 1:59.40. He had a relatively light World Championships schedule. His only event was the 400 IM on the very last day of the meet.
Hiromasa Fujimori finished third with a 1:59.57.
Women’s 400m Freestyle
Sheo Yiwen won the women’s 400 meter freestyle by nearly a second ahead of Italian Diletta Carli with a 4:07.30. Carli finished second with a 4:08.12.
Katinka Hosszu found herself on the podium once again, this time finishing third with a 4:08.28.
Men’s 50m Freestyle
Josh Scnheider sprinted to the front of the pack, winning the men’s 50 free with a 21.80. Evgeny Sedov finished second with a 21.84, and Andrii Govorov was third at 22.10.
Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Vitalina Simonova put up a strong 2:22.94 to win the women’s 200 breaststroke. Tessa Wallace finished second at 2:23.97 and Mariia Astashinka was third at 2:26.06.
Breeja Larson just missed the top three with her time of 2:26.32.
Men’s 200m Backstroke
The Australians find themselves on top of the podium once again in the men’s 200 backstroke, but it’s not Mitchell Larkin. Ashley Delaney won with a top time of 1:58.41. Wang Shun also finished under 1:59, earning a second place finish with his 1:58.68.
Benjamin Stasiliulis finished third at 1:59.20.
Women’s 50m Butterfly
The 2013 World Champion Jeanette Ottesen won the women’s 50 butterfly with a time time of 25.51. Ottesen put some distance between herself and the second place finisher, Svetlana Chimrova. Chimrova posted a 26.14 and Claire Donahue finished third at 26.20.
Men’s 1500m Freestyle
Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy din’t wait long before hopping back up on the blocks for his next 1500m freestyle. He won with a final time of 14:55.06. Boris Bouchaut finished second with a 15:09.21 and Evgeny Drobotov finished third at 15:49.22.
Great job by Schneider and Meili to hop on a plane and swim well given the short turnaround, the long flight, and massive jet lag. They both swam about as fast or faster than they did in San Antonio. Amazing.
Race videos
Men’s 100 free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTtRH_6E2PY
Women’s 200 free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hMqftaNybY
Men’s 50 breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhFCfwEP68
Women’s 100 breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSoQ68rGxG8
Women’s 100 fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HDYU3p5QpE
Men’s 100 back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tDHp5kR7c4
Men’s 200 fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciDrvo4SE0Y
Women’s 200 IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UALDsx6d8CA
Men’s 400 free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontvgKf7BWc
Women’s 50 free
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Paltrinieri swimming another 1500? Baller.
Off topic but a few interesting time trials at last US Championships which went under the radar. Or not. I didn’t know where to post them. For once that I look at time trials results….
W 50 fly. Kelsi Worrell 25.65
M 50 fly. Masa Kishida 23.46/Roland Schoeman 23.48
M 100 fly. Matthew Josa 51.68
M 50 back. Junya Koga 24.36
I am happy to see that Us swimmers are still putting very strong times this summer !!!
Unfortunately for some of them it’s much faster than at worlds. 😆
Fink’s 59.52 PB puts him in the top 12 rankings, when does selection period end for athletes trying to make stipend? Will these world cup meets count?
The official season ended Monday and they are only considering times that were done between Jan 1st, 2015 and Aug 10, 2015. Any time swum after the end of US Nationals will count towards the 2015-2016 swim season and World Rankings.
I thought the only ones who got the APA stipend in 2016-17 were those that made the Olympic Team. So unless he makes the Olympic team, he won’t get any stipend?
Tony, am i misinformed?
You are correct about the 2016-2017 stipend, but USA Swimming is providing stipends for 52 Athletes (26 male/ 26 female) from September through June, leading up to the Olympic Trials.
Here is the selection criteria from USA Swimming regarding athlete stipends. http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/d71b75e0-d0e1-445b-8993-05af01dca46b/Athlete%20Funding%20through%2016%20FINAL%20Mar.pdf
Thanks Tony. So these times mean nothing for APA stipend. Only thing that counts now is making the Olympic team.
there should be some consideration from usa swimming bc most of the team that went to Worlds didn’t have 2 meets like everyone else that went to Pan Am or WUGs because they also swam at nationals – they should consider times this week as well especially now if people are top 10 in the world rankings and they want to try to provide them with best training opportunities for Rio
Its weird that Sedov didnt swim at world championships …
I think Russia didnt even compete with 2 athletes in mens 50 free?
2. Grechin and Morozov.
Sedov has probably not qualified at their world trials. I don’t know. Maybe he was injured. On swim rankings’ website I don’t see any trace of performance since last March.
Well, Vlad sure didn’t compete. Big disappointment.
didn’t compete?
I don’t think he meant Vlad didn’t literally compete.
Ok. Sure he had a tough meet. They put him in too many relays. He swam the 50 back prelims the morning of his 50 free’s final instead of sleeping. Weird choice. He was disqualified in the 100 free semis. And finished 4th in the 50 free. Tough meet.
Sedov had a back injury during Russian Trials.
Thanks for the news.
Looks like he goes much better. New PB for him.
It was probably Sedov’s taper meet of the year.
Second in 21.84
Schneider wins in 21.80.