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Day 4 Relay Lineups: Murphy, Cordes Highlight American Squad

2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Relay lineups are out for the mixed medley relay on day 4, with teams using plenty of different combinations.

Most of the contending teams have used the usual two men first technique, but a few haven’t including China and Australia.

The Americans are using Ryan Murphy on backstroke which isn’t a surprise after finishing behind Matt Grevers in the 100m final, but it is a surprise to see both Kevin Cordes and Kelsi Worrell on breast and fly as they’ve been the fastest on their respective strokes so far in the competition. They’re the only contending team that seems to be pulling out some of their big guns this morning.

Heat 1

  1. Japan (Koga, Imai, Shimizu, Amai)
  2. China (Li, Shi, Li, Zhu)
  3. Seychelles (Laird, Moncherry, Passon, Hoffman)

Heat 2

  1. Germany (Graf, vom Lehn, Schmidtke, Kusch)
  2. USA (Murphy, Cordes, Worrell, Comerford)
  3. Moldova (Sulcutan, Bulmag, Izbisciuc, Paponin)
  4. Estonia (Sepp, Romanjuk, Zirk, Zaitsev)
  5. Israel –
  6. Canada (Acevedo, Funk, Smith, van Landeghem)
  7. Madagascar –
  8. Slovakia (Listopadova, Kolbucnik, Misendova, Nagy)

Heat 3

0. Mozambique –

  1. Sri Lanka –
  2. Kenya (Maina, Kamau, Muteti, Mohamed)
  3. Egypt –
  4. Italy (Panziera, Martinenghi, Codia, Di Pietro)
  5. Russia (Kolesnikov, Zanko, Chimrova, Andreeva)
  6. Maldives (Ibrahim, Aishath, Adnan, Shajan)
  7. Philippines (Oliva, Deiparne, Lacuna, Alkhaldi)
  8. Latvia (Steina, Bobrovs, Maskalenko, Nikitina)
  9. Mexico (Gonzalez Ramirez, De Lara Ojeda, Ramirez, Ibanez)

Heat 4

0. Aruba (Schreuders, Groters, Van Den Berg, Ponson)

  1. Finland –
  2. Faroe Islands (Joensen, Toftum, Mortensen, Nysted)
  3. Argentina (Berrino, Ceballos, Grassi, Grabich)
  4. Great Britain (Davies, Murdoch, Guy, Anderson)
  5. Hungary (Balog, Gyurta, Szilagyi, Jakabos)
  6. South Africa (Binedell, Corbett, Jimmie, Gallagher)
  7. Angola (Sousa, Ervedosa, Francisco, Nobrega)
  8. Sweden (Lindborg, Skagius, Hansson, Johansson)
  9. Australia (McKeown, Wilson, Irvine, Jack)

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Pombear
7 years ago

Be interesting to see who the Aussies go with for tonight? Probably wasn’t their fastest team but did an amazing job qualifying in second

Thomas Selig
Reply to  Pombear
7 years ago

I’d imagine they bring in Larkin and E. McKeon on BK and Fly, simply crunching the numbers means they drop around 2 secs by doing so. Then they have to decide whether to bring in C2 for the Free leg, or preserve her for the individual events later on, and stick with Jack. Wilson had a good swim, and gives them at least some hope for the medley relay.

AvidSwimFan
7 years ago

They didn’t need to use Cordes for that prelim swim he has a final tonight. Even the British team didn’t use Peaty.

NTIN SWIMMER
7 years ago

Is there a possibility of having King and Dressel in the final ?

Zanna
Reply to  NTIN SWIMMER
7 years ago

Then we will be able to see King vs Peaty. Of course no contest.

Zanna
Reply to  NTIN SWIMMER
7 years ago

No reason to put Dressel though. He has another 9 swims (assuming he makes it to all finals) including the medley relay.

He Gets It Done Again
Reply to  Zanna
7 years ago

Here’s a reason to put him on the relay: he swims fast and they want to win the gold medal…

nlm78
7 years ago

I did an initial double take when I read that Aussie team because I thought why did they name three females? Then I realised it was Matt and Kaylee swimming. 😀

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  nlm78
7 years ago

lol

Taa
7 years ago

this looks like the finals team? I suppose they all don’t have another swim today so they are just cruising prelims. What is up with the heat seeding in this event? We can’t get a better seed than the Faroe Islands?

Zanna
7 years ago

Why big guns in the prelims? Aka Cordes and Worrell. They dont trust Miller?

Peter
Reply to  Zanna
7 years ago

50 breast final. Gibson is just not gonna cut it at 58s sadly

gigglewater
Reply to  Zanna
7 years ago

I’ll say Comerford is big gun as well.

crooked donald
Reply to  gigglewater
7 years ago

That Murphy guy I heard is good too.

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James Sutherland

James swam five years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in 2018, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2019 he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …

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