2019 World University Games/Summer Universiade – Swimming
- July 4th-9th, 2019
- Napoli, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Live Stream: Olympic Channel (in US), Rai Sport (in Italy)
- Entry Lists & Live Results
Men’s 100 Breaststroke – Semi-finals
- World Record – 57.10, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2018
- Meet Record – 59.53, Igor Borysik (UKR), 2009
USA’s Ian Finnerty became the 13th American to break one minute in the 100-meter breaststroke on Thursday at the World University Games in Napoli. Heading into the meet his personal best stood at 1:00.09, dating from 2017 U.S. Open. In morning heats he went 1:00.78 to qualify eighth for semi-finals. But he brought the big guns in the evening and was out like a shot from the outset. He turned with a commanding lead at the 50 and came home for his first sub-minute 100 breast, going 59.51. That took .02 off the Universiade meet record and made Finnerty the 11th-fastest American performer in history.
- 58.64      Cordes, Kevin            2017 World Championships
- 58.87      Miller, Cody               2016 Olympic Games
- 58.96      Shanteau, Eric           2009 World Champs
- 59.01      Gangloff, Mark          2009 USA Swimming National Champs
- 59.13      Hansen, Brendan      2006 CA ConocoPhillips Nats
- 59.19      Wilson, Andrew         2018 Atlanta PSS
- 59.38      Andrew, Michael       2018 Summer Nationals
- 59.40      Fink, Nic                      2017 Summer National Champs
- 59.40      Swander, Kevin         2009 U. S. Open
- 59.48      Nowicki, Devon         2018 Summer Nationals
- 59.51      Finnerty, Ian      2019 World University Games
- 59.60      Prenot, Josh               U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming
Finnerty finished nearly half a body length ahead of Lithuania’s Andrius Sidlauskas (59.80) and Yuya Hinomoto of Japan (59.92). He heads into the final seeded first, with 6 of the top 8 qualifiers under a minute.
Finnerty moves ahead of Michael Andrew to rank 14th in the world for the season.
2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 BREAST
PEATY
56.88 *WR
| 2 | Ilya SHYMANOVICH | BLR | 58.29 | 03/24 |
| 3 | James WILBY | GBR | 58.46 | 07/22 |
| 4 | Yan ZIBEI | CHN | 58.63 | 07/22 |
| 5 | Yasuhiro KOSEKI | JPN | 58.89 | 07/21 |
| 6 | Andrew WILSON | USA | 58.93 | 08/15 |
| 7 | Dmitriy BALANDIN | KAZ | 59.03 | 07/21 |
| 8 | Fabio SCOZZOLI | ITA | 59.05 | 05/11 |
| 9 | Kirill PRIGODA | RUS | 59.09 | 07/22 |
| 10 | Anton CHUPKOV | RUS | 59.15 | 07/21 |
| 11 | Matthew WILSON | AUS | 59.17 | 07/21 |
| 11 | Tobias BJERG | DEN | 59.17 | 04/08 |
| 13 | Ross MURDOCH | GBR | 59.21 | 04/16 |
| 14 | Yasuhiro KOSEKI | JPN | 59.24 | 02/09 |
| 14 | Cody MILLER | USA | 59.24 | 05/17 |
| 16 | Joao GOMES | BRA | 59.25 | 07/21 |
It makes you realise how exceptional Peaty is, that the reigning NCAA champion, the only guy ever under 50 in SCY, can have a break out Long Course meet and still need to drop a further 2.5 seconds to compete for global golds.
Congratulations Ian!
*Brandon Fischer swam :59.8 at Clovis in mid June.
Even a guy from Turkey is around 59 Mid ? jeeeeeeez , so much diversity & Different Nationalities dipping under 1 Minute 😀 . Apart from the brits who got 2 in that list , only Usa has 3 swimmers under 1.00 Minute for this year . Otherwise , its all wide spread …. so .interesting
Cody is only 10th in the world – first Us in that list – the level is just impressive this year . Well done Ian , u got the mojo , keep riding that wave of improvements . 59.2 in final ?
Poor Marcus Titus.
Looks like he backed off hallway through first 50. Tempo changed a little and he was looking like usual. Expect maybe 59 low 58 high
No I did not see him back off at all. Can’t back off in a 100 breast and expect to make the final. He was winded at the end of the race.
Guess there isn’t anything to worry about Ol’ Longhorn…