2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th
- Budapest, Hungary
- LCM (50m)
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- Pick ’em Contest
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Amidst a stacked field including 100m butterfly Olympic champion Joseph Schooling and newly-minted 50m butterfly American record holder Caeleb Dressel, 22-year-old Ben Proud kept his head down and his stroke strong to nail gold in the men’s fly splash n’ dash. Lurking as the 4th place swimmer after both heats and semi-finals clocking respective times of 23.11 and 22.92, Proud fired off a mighty 22.75 to take the top prize tonight in a new 50 fly British national record.
His time tonight knocks .05 off his own previous British record of 22.80 set at the British Championships this past April. At that meet, Proud had said his 50m fly strategy entailed taking just one breath near the closing flags of the race, after nailing a superb dive, underwater dolphin kicks and breakout. Those tactics paid off for the Energy Standard swimmer tonight, clearing race favorite and #1 seeded swimmer Nicholas Santos of Brazil, who touched just .04 behind in 22.79 for silver. Ukraine’s Andrii Govorov earned bronze in 22.84.
For Proud, the Brit now ranks as the 7th-fastest 50m fly performer of all-time.
| 1. Rafael Munoz | 22.43 |
| 2. Nicholas Santos | 22.51 |
| 3. Milorad Cavic | 22.67 |
| 4. Andrii Govorov | 22.69 |
| 5. Henrique Martins | 22.70 |
| 6. Matt Targett | 22.73 |
| 7. Ben Proud | 22.75 |
Apparently Dressel trying to put Proud off before the race, unlucky yank. Go TEAM GB!!!
lol. Crooked Donald’s clean water theory worked very well.☺
DUDE… he is jacked… like when did swimmers look like crossfit athletes lol
It didn’t seem like Dressel got the start he usually did. Oh well, still has a classy 22.76 for his PB and a lot more chances to get gold.
neither did Schooling. Both their reaction times are usually 0.62 or lower, and usually 0.61 for Schooling, but today it seemed both had relatively slow reactions, with 0.63 from Schooling and 0.64 from Dressel
The report has it that Schooling went 22.39 just 10 minutes after the final in the practise pool from the push
Literally laughed out loud!
Cavic’s 100 fly split from Rome 2009 should be still be amongthe top 10 50 fly times then he would play the piano like Beethoven
Weird teeth and a weird tit
great body, not so his face.
I don’t think that’s surprising at all. He came into Worlds ranked second. Simply suprised cause Dressel didn’t make it.