Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by James Sutherland.
WOMEN’S 100M BACKSTROKE
- Missy Franklin, 59.80
- Dominique Bouchard, 1:00.70
- Etiene Medeiros, 1:01.43
When Missy Franklin is first at the 50, she usually will win the race. Franklin was out in 29.40 and back in 30.40, clocking 59.80 to crack a minute for the first time this year. She was visibly happy about the time after the race and expressed it in her post race interview. Canadian Dominique Bouchard was 2nd in 1:00.70, and Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros rounds out the podium in 3rd in 1:01.43. Natalie Coughlin was 2nd at the 50m mark, but faded to 5th, finishing in 1:01.81 just behind Italy’s Silvia Scalia (1:01.77). Danielle Hanus (1:02.32), Fernanda Gonazlez Ramirez (1:02.33), and Candace Cooper (1:02.53) rounded out the A-final. Madison Broad won the B-final in 1:01.97.
