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
- Competition Schedule
- FinaTV Live Stream
- Entry Lists
- Results
Kelsi Dahlia tied her American Record in the final of the women’s 50 fly for the second time in her career at the 2019 World Championships, finishing just outside the medals in fourth.
The 25-year-old finished in a time of 25.48, equalling what she had done both at the 2017 World Championships (also finishing fourth) and at U.S. Nationals last summer. The time has her tied for the 11th fastest performer in history alongside Australian Marieke Guehrer.
Not only did Dahlia equal her finish from Budapest, but the top-4 actually finished in the exact same order as they did there.
Sarah Sjostrom won her third straight title in a time of 25.02, followed by Ranomi Kromowidjojo (25.35) of the Netherlands and Farida Osman (25.38) of Egypt.
A former member of the Louisville Cardinals, Dahlia placed sixth in her other individual event, the 100 fly, earlier in the competition. She also earned a silver medal on the U.S. women’s 400 free relay, and another by virtue of swimming on the prelims of the mixed medley relay. She will be relied upon on the final day of action in the women’s medley.
Farida Osman actually finished third in 25.47 not 25.38 so Kelsi just missed a bronze by 1 one-hundredth of a second. Still a great swim for Kelsi. That is the 3rd near miss for team USA during the meet as Michael Andrew missed a bronze in the 50 Fly and Ryan Murphy in the 100 back buy also the smallest of margins being 1 one-hundredth.
That’s right. Fixed, thanks.
James, Kelsi also swam the 4×100 free relay in finals on the first day.
Fixed, thanks.