2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 11th- Sunday, December 16th
- Hangzhou, China
- Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center
- SCM (25m)
- Prelims: 9:30 am local, 8:30 pm ET / Finals: 7:00 pm* local, 6:00* am ET
- *The final night of finals will be one hour earlier, starting at 6:00 pm local and 5:00 am ET
- Live Results (Omega)
Day 3 of the 2018 SC World Championships will include the finals of the men’s 100 breast, women’s 100 free, women’s 200 back, men’s 100 fly, women’s 800 free and mixed 4×50 medley relay along with the semifinals of the men’s 100 IM, men’s 50 free, women’s 50 fly, women’s 100 IM, and men’s 50 back.
Men’s 200 Breast – Finals
World Record: 2:00.44, Marco Koch (GER), 2016Championship Record: 2:01.21, Marco Koch (GER), 2016- World Junior Record: 2:03.23 (Best Time)
- Kirill Prigoda – RUS – 2:00.16
- Qin Haiyang – CHN – 2:01.15
- Marco Koch – GER – 2:01.42
Kirill Prigoda looked like winning already off the first 25 as he was not only ahead of the field but also ahead of world record pace. Going into the last 75 meters of the race, Prigoda still maintained his lead on the field and the world record. In the end, Prigoda won the event in a new world and championship record of 2:00.16, just shy of breaking the 2-minute mark.
Taking second in a new Asian record of 2:01.15 was Qin Haiyang, which was also under the championship record. Taking third was 2016 SC World Champion in this event Marco Koch, finishing in a 2:01.42.
Women’s 100 Free – Finals
- World Record: 50.25, Cate Cambell (AUS), 2017
Championship Record: 51.37, Femke Heemskerk (NED), 2014- World Junior Record: 52.09 (Best Time)
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo – NED – 51.95
- Femke Heemskerk – NED – 51.84
- Mallory Comerford – USA – 52.36
2012 Olympic gold medalist Ranomi Kromowidjojo proved her dominance once again as she blew the rest of the field away with her new championship record time of 51.14. Taking second place to create a Dutch 1-2 finish was 2016 champion in this event Femke Heemskerk, finishing in 51.60.
Taking bronze was Mallory Comerford, who set a new American record of 52.36.
Men’s 100 IM – Semifinals
- World Record: 50.26, Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 2018
- Championship Record: 50.66, Markus Deibler (GER), 2014
World Junior Record: 51.35, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2018
- Kliment Kolesnikov – RUS – 50.90
- Marco Orsi – ITA – 51.42
- Michael Andrew – USA – 51.44
- Hiromas Fujimori – JPN – 51.50
- Wang Shun – CHN – 52.15
- Caio Pumptutis – BRA – 52.31
- Sergei Fesikov – RUS – 52.33
- Kenneth To – HKG – 52.38
Taking top seed into tomorrow’s finals is 18-year-old Russian Kliment Kolesnikov, who set a new world junior record of 50.90. Winning the second semifinal was Italian veteran Marco Orsi, who set a new Italian national record of 51.42. Sneaking into the top three for tomorrow’s final is teen phenom Michael Andrew, who finished in a 51.44.
Rounding out the top eight is Hiromas Fujimori, Wang Shun, Caio Pumptutis, Sergei Fesikov, and Kenneth To.
Women’s 200 Back – Finals
- World Record: 1:59.23, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
- Championship Record: 1:59.23, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
- World Junior Record: 2:00.93 (Best Time)
- Lisa Bratton – USA – 2:00.71
- Kathleen Baker – USA – 2:00.79
- Emily Seebohm – AUS – 2:01.37
Kathleen Baker and Emily Seebohm were both leading the field off the first two 50s, ahead of world record pace. Into the last 50, Baker, Seebohm, and Lisa Bratton were all in medal contention. It was an American 1-2 finish with Lisa Bratton taking her first international medal in a 2:00.71. Taking the silver medal was fellow American Kathleen Baker in a 2:00.79. Emily Seebohm took the bronze medal in a 2:01.37.
Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu finished out of the top three, settling for fourth place.
Men’s 50 Free – Semifinals
- World Record: 20.26, Florent Manaudou (FRA), 2014
- Championship Record: 20.26, Florent Manaudou (FRA), 2014
- World Junior Record:21.24, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
- Caeleb Dressel – USA – 20.51
- Ben Proud – GBR – 20.71
- Vladimir Morozov – RUS – 20.83
- Cameron McEvoy – AUS– 20.97
- Simonas Bilis – LTU – 21.03
- César Cielo Filho – BRA – 21.06
- Jesse Puts – NED – 21.07
- Brad Tandy – RSA/Pawe Jurasek – POL – 21.12
Taking top spot going into tomorrow’s final is Caeleb Dressel, who set a new American record of 20.51. Winning the first semifinal was taking the second spot was Brit Ben Proud. Also breaking 21 seconds was Vladimir Morozov and Cameron McEvoy.
Closing out the top eight were Simonas Bilis, 2008 Olympic gold medalist Cesar Cielo, Jesse Puts, and tying for eighth Brad Tandy and Pawe Jurasek.
Women’s 50 Fly– Semifinals
- World Record: 24.38, Therese Alshammar (SWE), 2009
- Championship Record: 24.58, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2014
- World Junior Record: 25.14, Rikako Ikee (JPN), 2017
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo – NED – 24.84
- Holly Barrat – AUS – 24.91
- Kelsi Dahlia – USA – 24.93
- Maaike de Waard – NED – 25.17
- Melanie Henrique – FRA – 25.24
- Wang Yichun – CHN – 25.44
- Haley Black – CAN/Aliena Schmidtke – GER – 25.60
Taking the top three seeds for tomorrow’s 50 fly final is Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Holly Barrat, and Kelsi Dahlia. Dahlia’s 24.93 set a new American record by one one-hundredth.
Also making it back tomorrow night is Maaike de Waard, Melanie Henrique, 13-year-old Wang Yichun, Haley Black, and Aliena Schmidtke.
Men’s 100 Fly – Finals
- World Record: 48.08, Chad le Clos (RSA), 2016
- Championship Record: 48.08, Chad le Clos (RSA), 2016
- World Junior Record: 50.49, Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas (NOR), 2018
- Chad le Clos – RSA – 48.50
- Caeleb Dressel – USA – 48.71
- Li Zhuhao – CHN – 49.25
After missing the 200 free final, Chad le Clos proved his dominance. Le Clos became a 4-peat world champion in this event, winning in a 48.50. Caeleb Dressel just missed the gold and settled for silver in a 48.71.
Taking the bronze was Li Zhuhao, who set a new Asian record of 49.25.
Women’s 100 IM– Semifinals
- World Record: 56.51, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2017
- Championship Record: 56.70, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
- World Junior Record: 57.75, Rikako Ikee (JPN), 2017
- Katinka Hosszu – HUN – 57.69
- Runa Imai – JPN – 58.04
- Alia Atkinson – JAM – 58.20
- Melanie Margalis – USA – 58.33
- Kathleen Baker – USA – 58.54
- Jenna Laukkanen – FIN/Rika Omoto – JPN – 58.60
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- Emily Seebohm – AUS – 58.64
Taking the top three spots were the top three finishers from the second semifinal. Katinka Hosszu, only swimmer to break 58 seconds, Runa Imai, and 50 breast champion Alia Atkinson. Americans Melanie Margalis and Kathleen Baker will also return tomorrow night.
Rounding out the top eight are Jenna Laukkanen, Rika Omoto, and Emily Seebohm. 2012 Olympic gold medalist Ye Shiwen just missed the final, placing ninth.
Men’s 50 Back – Semifinals
- World Record: 22.22, Florent Manaudou (FRA), 2014
- Championship Record: 22.22, Florent Manaudou (FRA), 2014
- World Junior Record: 22.82, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2018
- Evgeny Rylov – RUS – 22.68
- Ryan Murphy – USA – 22.87
- Xu Jiayu – CHN – 22.91
- Shane Ryan – IRL – 22.96
- Guilherme Guido – BRA – 23.00
- Simone Sabbioni – ITA – 23.10
- Kliment Kolesnikov – RUS – 23.15
- Christian Diener – GER – 23.18
Taking the top spot into the 50 back final is Russian Evgeny Rylov. Taking second seed, tying the 2008 American record, is Ryan Murphy. Coming back tomorrow and also breaking 23 seconds is Xu Jiayu and Shane Ryan.
Rounding out the top eight for tomorrow’s final is Guilherme Guido, Simone Sabbioni, world junior record holder Kliment Kolesnikov, and Christian Diener.
Women’s 800 Free – Finals
- World Record: 7:59.34, Mireia Belmonte (ESP), 2013
- Championship Record: 8:03.41, Mireia Belmonte (ESP), 2015
- World Junior Record: 7:59.44, Wang Jianjiahe (CHN), 2018
- Wang Jianjiahe – CHN – 8:04.35
- Simona Quadarella – ITA – 8:08.03
- Leah Smith – USA –8:08.75
Wang Jianjiahe led the entire distance race, building a body length lead off of the first 25. Wang was ahead of world record pace up until the 400 mark, where she faded off the pace. The 16-year-old still maintained her lead and won with a 8:04.35
A few meters behind Wang, Simona Quadarella and 2016 champion Leah Smith were in the race for second. Quadarella built a lead off Smith going into the last 100 and took the silver medal in 8:08.03. Smith settled for the bronze in a 8:08.75.
Mixed 4×50 Medley Relay – Finals
World Record: 1:37.17, United States, 2013Championship Record: 1:37.22, United States, 2016- World Junior Record:1:42.42 (Best Time)
- United States – 1:36.40
- Netherlands – 1:37.05
- Russia – 1:37.33
In a non-traditional strategy, the American WMWM relay was trailing in seventh going into the free leg. However, Caeleb Dressel split a blistering 20.09 to continue a 5 for 5 American relay sweep. Olivia Smoliga (25.85), Michael Andrew (25.75), and Kelsi Dahlia (24.71) were also members of the world record-breaking relay, which won with a 1:36.40.
Taking second was the Netherlands relay, finishing in a 1:37.05. Ranomi Kromowidjojo (24.27) and Femke Heemskerk (22.90) had the fastest women’s fly and free splits, respectively. Taking third was the Russian relay in a 1:37.33. Germany’s Christian Diener lead off with the fastest back split of 22.91. Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli had the fastest breast split with a 25.47.
Dressel 👏🏼 Is 👏🏼 Not 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 God 👏🏼
King Chad
Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king?
What’s a king to a god?
What’s a god to a non-believer?
Who don’t believe in anything?
I think Rylov could throw something really special in the 100 had he be given the opportunity.
Prigoda’s stroke, pacing, rhythm— phenomenal. Esp his ability to shift tempo and gears without losing extension and rhythm. Cordes needs to study him.
Anyone know why Ledecky isn’t competing? Is ot because of school commitments or she doesn’t like SCM format? You’d think she would own all the SCM distance records by now. On her to do list?
She has finals this week, which are more important.
But she makes her living as a swimmer.
This ^
I bet Louisville and Georgia have finals too when this team is away but they sent their swimmers. I am saying one way is right and the other is wrong. Simone graduated last year so she isn’t taking classes!
Simone is actually still taking classes, she said that this semester was the hardest in the interview at the Winter Nationals
Stanford just might have different academic standards than Louisville…
What about the chicken?
That did not stop Michelle Wie when she had to take finals. .
She and Manuel have finals.
That’s the 3rd relay medal Japan has lost by not having Rikako Ikee at this meet. That’s gotta hurt.
What happened on dressels first turn in the 100 fly?
All his turns and his finish were too long, he lost a ton of time
He needs to spend more time in a SCM pool if he wants to win these races.
Lisa who? Never heard of her.
u did not watch many US trials than in recent years ….Okay
Correct
I noticed this while comparing the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly records in SCY and SCM in terms of Speed.
100 Butterfly SCM WR by Chad le Clos: 48.08
100 Butterfly SCY AR Caeleb Dressel 42.80
100 Backstroke SCM WR – Xu Jiayu 48.80
100 Backstroke SCY AR – Ryan Murphy 43.49
In Short course yards, Butterfly is faster han backstroke
But backstroke is faster than butterfly in SCM.
Underwater kicking is faster on your back, and in each version of the event, swimmers have to break the surface at 15 meters. technically backstroke should then be faster than butterfly in both SCM and SCY.
The swimmers mentioned are all dominant in that element of… Read more »
I see two problems:
First of all in both instances, not just yards, the butterfly record is faster than the back. The back is not faster than the fly is SCM. 48.8 to 48.0.
Secondly, the logic about underwater kicking on your back being faster thus backstroke should be faster in both distances, does not follow. Yes you can swim over 50% of the race underwater, and maybe on backstroke that portion is faster than on butterfly, but there is still nearly half of the race above water. And I think many would agree that butterfly is a faster above water stroke than backstroke, albeit the difference between the two is probably minute, but enough to account for it nonetheless.
Difference in fly is 5.28 and difference in back is 5.31. I think you’re vastly overanalyzing 2 data points and need a much larger sample size to make any meaningful conclusions about the differences between strokes. Additionally the difference between SCM and SCY is very slight, perhaps an extra stroke or 2 per lap, so there’s just not too much meaning behind time differential data.
That said, short course sprint backstroke is less about backstroke and more about underwaters than anything. If a swimmer has good underwaters, it’s not too difficult to preserve that momentum with a few fast strokes between turns in backstroke. Butterfly, however, requires better stroke technique to preserve momentum, as you can easily lose that momentum… Read more »
The difference between fly and back in yards is 0.69s (nice), while the difference between fly and back in SCM is 0.72s (nice + 0.03). Very small difference, but in each case fly is faster than back by ~0.7s.
I think that difference of 0.7s is almost entirely due to the start, by the way. Compare the time to 15m for flyers and backstrokers of similar skill and that’s roughly the difference you’ll see. A good example where you can even compare one swimmer to himself would be Tom Shields at 2012 NCAAs, where he won both the 100 fly and 100 back. For the fly, I got roughly 5.2s to 15m and for the back I got roughly 5.9s.… Read more »