World Junior Championships, Day Two Prelims: Audrey Derivaux Claims High Seed in 200 Fly; Rylee Erisman Units Championship Report
A South American report on Day One jumpstarted the World Junior Championships in Otopeni, Romania, and the second day of finals will characteristic a much-awaited matchup within the 100-meter breaststroke between Nice Britain’s Filip Nowacki and Japan’s Shin Ohashi. However earlier than we get to the Day Two evening session, the second day of preliminaries will unfold, and decide who will battle for worldwide {hardware}.
The Day Two prelims will begin with motion within the males’s 200 particular person medley, which might be adopted by the ladies’s 100 freestyle. Different occasions on the schedule are the lads’s 100 butterfly, ladies’s 200 butterfly, males’s 200 freestyle and the combined 400 medley relay. The morning will even characteristic the slower heats of the ladies’s 800 freestyle.
Here’s what transpired through the Day Two prelims:
Males’s 200 Particular person Medley
Russia’s Mikhail Shcherbakov led three athletes underneath two minutes, clocking 1:59.09 for the highest seed within the remaining. Shcherbakov will face challenges within the night session from the Japanese tandem of Raito Numata (1:59.33) and Yumeki Kojima (1:59.43), who’s the world junior report holder within the 400 IM. Individuals Baylor Stanton (2:01.10) and Noah Cakir (2:01.17) superior in seventh and eighth place.
Ladies’s 100 Freestyle
American Rylee Erisman was sensational within the morning, setting championship and NAG information within the 100 freestyle. Erisman fired off a mark of 53.17, which bettered the earlier World Juniors customary of 53.63, set in 2017 by Canadian Taylor Ruck. Nice Britain’s Theodora Taylor (54.46) and the USA’ Lily King (54.57) had been second and third into the night semifinals.
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Males’s 100 Butterfly
Brazil’s Lucio Flavio de Paula Filho managed the quickest time of prelims within the 100 butterfly, as his time of 52.48 was forward of the 52.63 from American Rowan Cox. There was a tie for the third place between Nice Britain’s Dean Fearn and Kazakhstan’s Maxim Skazobtsov, who had matching marks of 52.88.
Ladies’s 200 Butterfly
Coming off a fourth-place end within the 400 particular person medley, American Audrey Derivaux snared the highest seed for the ultimate of the 200 butterfly. Derivaux checked in with a swim of two:09.16, which was barely quicker than the two:09.19 of Japan’s Umi Ishizuka.
Males’s 200 Freestyle
Austrian Christian Giefing went 1:47.94 to e-book Lane 4 for the ultimate whereas Raito Numata of Japan certified for his second remaining of the session, going 1:48.10. In fourth was Italian Carlos D’Ambrosio, the favourite who was the sixth-place finisher on the current World Championships in Singapore.
Combined 400 Medley Relay
Russia notched the one sub-3:50 swim of prelims, delivering a time of three:49.87 to earn the highest seed for the ultimate. Japan adopted within the No. 2 spot in 3:50.30. The US certified in fifth in 3:50.97. Anticipate a substantial shakeup at evening as groups make roster modifications.
