2015 WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES
- July 4th-July 11th, 2015 (Saturday-Saturday)
- Gwangju, South Korea
- Prelims 8:30AM/Finals 7PM (local time)
- Prelims 7:30PM (day before)/Finals 6AM (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Full meet preview
- Day 6 Prelims Live Recap
- Results
- Live feed (finals only)
- In the United States: ESPN3.com
- Twitter: @swimswamlive
- Link to Day Six Finals Recap
Excerpt taken from Day SIX Finals Recap:
Men’s 200 Backstroke – FINALS
American swimmer Jacob Pebley won the men’s 200 backstroke, swimming the fourth fastest time in the world this year. With his time of 1:56.29, he is now the fastest American performer of the season.
2014-2015 LCM Men 200 Back
LARKIN
1.53.58
| 2 | Radoslaw KAWECKI | POL | 1.54.55 | 08/07 |
| 3 | Evgeny RYLOV | RUS | 1.54.60 | 08/07 |
| 4 | Irie RYOSUKE | JPN | 1.54.62 | 01/31 |
| 5 | Ryan MURPHY | USA | 1.55.00 | 08/07 |
The silver medal was won by Japanese swimmer, Sunama Keita. He finished second with his time of 1:57.50, holding off the bronze medalist, Andrei Shabasov (RUS), who finished third at 1:57.68.
Christopher Ciccarese narrowly missed the podium after posting a final time of 1:57.83, only .15 seconds behind the bronze medalist.
There was a gap before the next group finished. Joe Patching of Great Britain lead in Giorgio Gaetani (ITA) and Connor Green (USA). Patching posted the fifth fastest time of 1:59.52 while Gaetani finished sixth in 2:00.07 and Green was seventh in 2:00.23.
Krzysztof Morawski (POL) finished in eighth place at 2:02.11.
The announcers said Jacob’s time puts him 7th in the world … they didn’t seem like the most accurate duo during the race; is he 7th or 4th like you guys have him?
He’s fourth. We confirmed with FINA’s database as well.
Until Murphy races it shaved and tapered….
Murphy will put the hammer down next month in the 200 back .