World Junior Championships, Day Three Prelims: Charlotte Crush and Audrey Derivaux Lead Crew USA in 200 Backstroke
The third day of preliminaries on the World Junior Championships will embrace a trio of dash occasions. Motion in Otopeni, Romania will see competitors within the ladies’s 50 butterfly, males’s 50 backstroke and males’s 50 freestyle. Different occasions on the Thursday morning schedule are the ladies’s 100 breaststroke, ladies’s 200 backstroke and the combined 400 freestyle relay. The slower heats of the boys’s 800 freestyle may even be contested.
The US ladies loved a powerful displaying through the Evening Two finals and can attempt to keep that momentum. Charlotte Crush (100 backstroke), Audrey Derivaux (200 butterfly) and Rachel McAlpin (50 breaststroke) all claimed gold medals on Wednesday evening, whereas Rylee Erisman set a championship report of 53.09 within the semifinals of the 100 freestyle.
Right here is an event-by-event recap of the Day Three prelims:
Girls’s 50 Butterfly
Coming off a wonderful butterfly leg in Japan’s combined medley relay victory the earlier evening, Mizuki Hirai led the opening spherical of the 50 butterfly. The College of Tennessee recruit went 26.09 to position .08 forward of New Zealand’s Zoe Pedersen (26.17). Denmark’s Martine Damborg checked in with the third-fastest time, going 26.35.
Males’s 50 Backstroke
The US’ Gavin Keogh earned the highest seed for the semifinals by the slimmest of margins, as his 25.18 outing was a hundredth faster than Russia’s Georgii Iakovlev (25.19). Keogh was the bronze medalist within the 100 backstroke, the place Iakovlev was the silver medalist. Eire’s John Shortt, the champion within the 100 backstroke, superior to the semifinals within the No. 7 slot.
Girls’s 100 Breaststroke
Germany’s Lena Ludwig and Lithuania’s Smilte Plytnykaite occupied the top-two positions for the semifinals of the 100 breaststroke. Ludwig touched the wall in 1:08.22, good for a Warmth Eight win, whereas Plytnykaite was the winner of the seventh warmth in 1:08.46. Aussie Hayley Mackinder adopted in 1:08.50.
Males’s 50 Freestyle
The Ukraine’s Nikita Sheremet and Nice Britain’s Jacob Mills logged the one two sub-22 performances within the prelims of the 50 freestyle, and have put Michael Andrew’s 2017 world junior report of 21.75 on discover. Sheremet put collectively a dash of 21.82 for the highest seed within the semifinals, whereas Mills recorded a mark of 21.98.
Italy’s Carlos D’Ambrosio, already the winner of the 200 freestyle in Otopeni, was listed as a disqualification within the outcomes.
Girls’s 200 Backstroke
The American duo of Charlotte Crush and Audrey Derivaux simply secured the highest two seeds for the ultimate of the 200 backstroke. Crush clocked 2:08.08 and Derivaux turned in a time of two:08.29 because the U.S. athletes had been 4 seconds away from the sphere. Grabbing the third seed for the ultimate was Canada’s Madison Kryger, who posted a swim of two:12.18.
Blended 400 Freestyle Relay
The US will occupy Lane 4 within the last of the combined 400 freestyle relay after going 3:28.50 in prelims. Crew USA was adopted carefully by Nice Britain, which put collectively a mark of three:28.64. Italy (3:29.59) and China (3:29.91) had been additionally below 3:30 for third and fourth place.
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