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Finnerty Breaks WUGs Meet Record, Becomes 13th American Under 1 Minute

2019 World University Games/Summer Universiade – Swimming

  • July 4th-9th, 2019
  • Napoli, Italy
  • LCM (50m)
  • Live Stream: Olympic Channel (in US), Rai Sport (in Italy)
  • Entry Lists & Live Results

Men’s 100 Breaststroke – Semi-finals

  • World Record – 57.10, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2018
  • Meet Record – 59.53, Igor Borysik (UKR), 2009

USA’s Ian Finnerty became the 13th American to break one minute in the 100-meter breaststroke on Thursday at the World University Games in Napoli. Heading into the meet his personal best stood at 1:00.09, dating from 2017 U.S. Open. In morning heats he went 1:00.78 to qualify eighth for semi-finals. But he brought the big guns in the evening and was out like a shot from the outset. He turned with a commanding lead at the 50 and came home for his first sub-minute 100 breast, going 59.51. That took .02 off the Universiade meet record and made Finnerty the 11th-fastest American performer in history.

  1. 58.64       Cordes, Kevin             2017 World Championships
  2. 58.87       Miller, Cody                2016 Olympic Games
  3. 58.96       Shanteau, Eric            2009 World Champs
  4. 59.01       Gangloff, Mark           2009 USA Swimming National Champs
  5. 59.13       Hansen, Brendan       2006 CA ConocoPhillips Nats
  6. 59.19       Wilson, Andrew          2018 Atlanta PSS
  7. 59.38       Andrew, Michael        2018 Summer Nationals
  8. 59.40       Fink, Nic                       2017 Summer National Champs
  9. 59.40       Swander, Kevin          2009 U. S. Open
  10. 59.48       Nowicki, Devon          2018 Summer Nationals
  11. 59.51       Finnerty, Ian            2019 World University Games
  12. 59.60       Prenot, Josh                U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming

Finnerty finished nearly half a body length ahead of Lithuania’s Andrius Sidlauskas (59.80) and Yuya Hinomoto of Japan (59.92). He heads into the final seeded first, with 6 of the top 8 qualifiers under a minute.

Finnerty moves ahead of Michael Andrew to rank 14th in the world for the season.

2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 BREAST

AdamGBR
PEATY
07/21
56.88 *WR
2Ilya
SHYMANOVICH
BLR58.2903/24
3James
WILBY
GBR58.4607/22
4Yan
ZIBEI
CHN58.6307/22
5Yasuhiro
KOSEKI
JPN58.8907/21
6Andrew
WILSON
USA58.9308/15
7Dmitriy
BALANDIN
KAZ59.0307/21
8Fabio
SCOZZOLI
ITA59.0505/11
9Kirill
PRIGODA
RUS59.0907/22
10Anton
CHUPKOV
RUS59.1507/21
11Matthew
WILSON
AUS59.1707/21
11Tobias
BJERG
DEN59.1704/08
13Ross
MURDOCH
GBR59.2104/16
14Yasuhiro
KOSEKI
JPN59.2402/09
14Cody
MILLER
USA59.2405/17
16Joao
GOMES
BRA59.2507/21
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Togger
5 years ago

It makes you realise how exceptional Peaty is, that the reigning NCAA champion, the only guy ever under 50 in SCY, can have a break out Long Course meet and still need to drop a further 2.5 seconds to compete for global golds.

Fluidg
5 years ago

Congratulations Ian!
*Brandon Fischer swam :59.8 at Clovis in mid June.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
5 years ago

Even a guy from Turkey is around 59 Mid ? jeeeeeeez , so much diversity & Different Nationalities dipping under 1 Minute 😀 . Apart from the brits who got 2 in that list , only Usa has 3 swimmers under 1.00 Minute for this year . Otherwise , its all wide spread …. so .interesting

ERVINFORTHEWIN
5 years ago

Cody is only 10th in the world – first Us in that list – the level is just impressive this year . Well done Ian , u got the mojo , keep riding that wave of improvements . 59.2 in final ?

PK Doesn't Like His Long Name
5 years ago

Poor Marcus Titus.

Swimmer1
5 years ago

Looks like he backed off hallway through first 50. Tempo changed a little and he was looking like usual. Expect maybe 59 low 58 high

anonymous
Reply to  Swimmer1
5 years ago

No I did not see him back off at all. Can’t back off in a 100 breast and expect to make the final. He was winded at the end of the race.

Entgegen
5 years ago

Guess there isn’t anything to worry about Ol’ Longhorn…

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