2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
- Meet site
- FinaTV Live Stream
- Live results
- Day 1 prelims start lists
FINA has published the start lists for heats of the women’s 4×100 meter freestyle relay and the men’s 4×100 meter freestyle relay, the final two events of the morning session on Day 1 of 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju.
The U.S. men have opted to use Townley Haas, Blake Pieroni, Michael Chadwick and Zach Apple this morning, presumably saving Caeleb Dressel and Nathan Adrian for the final.
Pieroni will contest the individual 100 freestyle alongside Dressel later in the competition, so it was expected that perhaps he would advance straight to the final (especially after Adrian was out of the water for an extended period of time early this year receiving cancer treatment). Apple is coming off a personal best 47.79 at the World University Games just a few weeks ago, so if he’s firing on all cylinders once again he should throw down a fast split this morning.
Great Britain appears to have gone with their optimal lineup, led by Duncan Scott and James Guy, and Brazil have their two individual 100 entrants in Marcelo Chierighini and Breno Correia entered. However, there’s a good chance they’ll sub-in Bruno Fratus for tonight’s final after his anchor leg on their silver medal-winning relay at 2017 Worlds.
Other notables include Russia leaving off Vladimir Morozov and using Vladislav Grinev, who is the #2 swimmer in the world this year. Australia is utilizing their optimal lineup that includes world #1 Kyle Chalmers.
HEAT 1
- Switzerland (Mitykov, Liess, Djakovic, Schmid)
- Egypt (Samy, Khalafalla, Elkamash, Sameh)
- Turkey (Sakci, Baslakov, Gurdal, Acimis)
- Israel (Frankel, Cheruti, Toumarkin, Namir)
- USA (Haas, Pieroni, Chadwick, Apple)
- Malaysia (Sim, Chan, Tern, Tiaa)
- Hong Kong (Lim, Ho, Ng, Cheuk)
HEAT 2
0. South Korea (Hwang, Jang, Park, Yang)
- Great Britain (Scott, Guy, Proud, McLay)
- Greece (Vazaios, Gkolomeev, Georgarakis, Christou)
- China (Yu, Yang, Cao, He)
- Russia (Rylov, Minakov, Kolesnikov, Grinev)
- Japan (Nakamura, Shioura, Matsumoto, Namba)
- Canada (Thormeyer, Kisil, Pisani, Olafson)
- Germany (Wierling, Kusch, Salchow, Fildebrandt)
- Singapore (Schooling, Quah, Tan, Chua)
- Chinese Taipei (Wang, Wang, Lin, An)
HEAT 3
0. Ireland (Ryan, Powell, Sloan, Mc Millan)
- Serbia (Stjepanovic, Nikolic, Barna, Acin)
- Hungary (Kozma, Nemeth, Bohus, Szabo)
- Italy (Condorelli, Frigo, Bori, Miressi)
- Brazil (Chierighini, Spajari, Calvelo de Souza, Correia)
- Australia (McEvoy, Lewis, Graham, Chalmers)
- Poland (Majchrzak, Gawrsiak, Holub, Kraska)
- Netherlands (Puts, Korstanje, Stolk, Pijnenburg)
- France (Mignon, Stravius, Paco Pedroni, Metella)
- Belgium (de Meulemeester, Aerents, Thijs, Timmers)
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I predict a big time split for Chadwick…something in the 47.1-47.3 range. I think Chaddy and Blake go through to the final.
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Adrian should not be an automatic for the final spot imo. Don’t care what he did in xyz year, Blake earned it. Adrian should have show his worth in the morning.
If I’m looking to get a reliably quick 100 split, I’m picking Adrian over Pieroni 99% of the time
You haven’t been in training camp so I’m gonna go ahead and trust the coaches on this one. We’ll see how the race goes, but until Adrian disappoints us, I’m putting the captain in
Not that I completely disagree with the sentiment, but Pieroni thus far in his career has had some underwhelming relay splits.
Even with a disappointing individual 100 last summer, Adrian put up like 47.3 or something as relay anchor. Blake’s never done anything close to that from a flying start.
Welp
Let me explain it this way:
Suppose cartoon aliens invade the Earth and challenge our swimmers to a 4×100 freestyle relay to decide whether or not they destroy us and we have to utilize old cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc., along with one human on the anchor. The human that would absolutely, undoubtedly find a way to snatch victory is Nathan Adrian*.
*honorable mention to Jason Lezak, but he is, unfortunately, retired.
Pepperoni and Zapple representing Indiana University.
Australia is swimming its A team
They only brought 14 male swimmers . Im sure they canmanage to swim twice ( iinshallah) in a day .
Fratus for final probably
And maybe order Will change for Brazil also
Why is the US in the first heat? Why are China and Taipei in the same heat?
Pan Pac’s DQ
Seed times?
Somebody said US may not have a proper seed time due to they DQed in Pan Pacs