2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th
- Budapest, Hungary
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Full lineups have been released for this morning’s mixed 4×100 free relay.
The U.S. will swim in heat 1, and will use Blake Pieroni, Townley Haas, Lia Neal and Kelsi Worrell in the prelims, with likely four completely different swimmers coming in for finals.
As is usually the case, all of the top countries appear to have left plenty of room for improvement in the final, with none of the serious contenders going with their best four this morning.
Check out all lineups below:
Heat 1
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- Luxembourg (Henx, Brandenburger, Meynen, Olivier)
- Israel (Schlesinger, Konovalov, Siebner, Murez)
- Latvia (Kalnins, Feldbergs, Nikitina, Steina)
- Slovakia –
- USA (Pieroni, Haas, Neal, Worrell)
- Seychelles (Hoffman, Laird, Moncherry, Passon)
Heat 2
0. Faroe Islands –
- China (Lin, Cao, Wu, Sun)
- Tajikistan (Kurbanov, Khorkashov, Klimyk, Tyurina)
- Egypt –
- Italy (Miressa, Vendrame, Pellegrini, Ferraioli)
- Russia (Korolev, Popkov, Andreeva, Popova)
- South Africa (Erasmus, Waddell, Gallagher, Chelius)
- Japan (Matsumoto, Nakamura, Aoki, Igarashi)
- Sri Lanka –
- Madagascar (Rasolonjatovo, Andrianirina, Razafy, Raharvel)
Heat 3
0. Australia (Townsend, Incerti, Throssell, Wilson)
- Aruba (Schreuders, Gorters, Ponson, Van Den Berg)
- Maldives (Adnan, Shajan, Aishath, Ibrahim)
- Hungary (Kozma, Nemeth, Jakabos, Verraszto)
- Netherlands (Schwietert, Stolk, Heemskerk, Van Der Meer)
- France –
- Jordan (Baqlah, Bedour, Baqlah, Al-Bakry)
- Canada (Kisil, Thormeyer, Mainville, Van Landeghem)
- Macao (Chao, Lin, Tan, Lei)
- Denmark (Nielsen, Skaaning, Bro, Beckmann)
By the way I can’t believe they have asked to Worrell to swim the prelims today. She has a 50 fly final. Mélanie Hénique has dropped the 50 free to focus on fer 50 fly final.
have asked Worrell
on her 50 fly final
If USA and Australia put their best swimmers in that great mixed free relay then it could be a big fight.
Will USA use Dressel after the 50 free and the 100 fly? Dressel/Adrian/Comerford/Manuel! It sounds great.
McEvoy/Cartwright/McKeon/Campbell for Australia?
Maybe it would be wise to rest most of these stars for tomorrow but when you can smell a gold medal it’s hard to resist.
are they going to show it live today in either nbcsports or the olympic channel? in the us swimming tv schedule it doesn’t have anything starting at 11:30 am like the rest of week? weird. it shows 8:00 pm as the live coverage.. must be a mistake?
I think it will stop talks of unfair selection of Ledecky over Neal in 4×100 free.
Not for me. Lia Neal deserved to be in the relay final. She’s a great relay swimmer. She swam 53.94 to lead off the US relay on day 1 in prelims. I’m sure she could swim a 53 low split in the final. Katie Ledecky’s speed has not been there all year. 54.35 at US championships. And she had a 400 free in her body just before the final. So not surprising to see her split a 53.83. USA has won but I repeat that the American coaches have played with fire.
I’m not talking about politics and ambitions. I’m saying simply that result of this relay won’t be much different in either way.
I understand the USA lineup, I wish they had shared the medal love. Haas and Pierioni are going to have a nice haul at the end of the meet.
Given Haas’ split this AM they may have had fresher legs with Apple.
Haas was slower this morning ….the guy was clutch on so many races so far . Let’s let him rest for now
Wonder who gets to swim prelims of medley then. Blake or Townley. If they are looking at the latest times done, Blake may be chosen.
Agreed.
What a strange line-up for AUS
Not really. Both C2 and Jack have 50free heats this morning. McKeon has more than earned a day off ! Wilson is competent enough. Throssell may seem strange selection but can swim 1.58 200 fr. Elmslie has looked “off”
Townsend hasn’t had a swim and Cartwright had 2 big 200s yesterday.
Also take into account that this is NOT an Olympic event so why expend your top swimmers today (even in final if they make it) when you have 4XMED tomorrow and some of them will have to swim both heats and finals because they may not have a quality B option for that stroke (think McKeon – fly)
They qualified 8th, livin’ on the edge.
Will be interesting to see who they swim tonight …. and whether they’ll figure it’s worth expending their best swimmers when they have 4XMED tomorrow (and at least one will have to swim H&F).
There’s a case to be made for swimming the men as the M4XMED will not medal, Women … prob not as AUS has no 2nd quality W flyer so McKeon may have to swim H&F. C2 … not sure its worth it either.