Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

All Post Times EditorialAugust 31, 2022

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2022 FINA JUNIOR SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Day 2 of the 2022 World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru will feature boys 200 IM, girls 100 free, boys 100 fly, girls 200 fly, boys 200 free, mixed 4×100 medley relay and girls 800 free heats. Notably, the Girls 800 Free is a timed final, so the slowest 3 runs will be swum this morning and the fastest run will be swum with finals tonight.

Probably the most anticipated preliminary round event of the day is the Boys 200 Free, where the 17-year-old Romanian plays David Popovici goes into the meet with a really massive lead as the top seedling and this year the world’s fastest swimmer. Popovici is clocked in at 1:44.68, which is already fast enough, but don’t let that fool you. The phenomenon swam a 1:42.97 to win gold at the European Championships a few weeks ago, breaking the junior world record in that event. After breaking the junior world record in the 100m free twice on Day 1, this morning we’re waiting for Popovici to break the 1:46.40 championship record in the 200m free.

of Portugal Diogo Ribeiro broke the Portuguese record in the 100m at the European Championships a few weeks ago and competes this morning as the top seedling in the boys’ 100m. Ribeiro leads the Czech Republic with a time of 52.31 Daniel Gracik by just 0.38 seconds. of Brazil Pedro Sousa also comes in this morning with a time under 53 and comes in at 53.97 as the number 3 seed. We will keep an eye out for South Africa Pieter Coetze likewise after he broke the African record in the 100m backstroke in the semifinals last night.

After a solid 1:58 lead in front of Hungary’s girls 4×200 free relay last night, 16 years old Nicholas Padar enters Girls 100 Free this morning as a top seed. Padar is seeded at 54.69, which puts her in first place on the Psych sheet by almost a full second.

You can watch a live stream of the session on FINA’s YouTube channel. We also included this stream below:

BOYS 200 IM—WARMTH

World Record – 1:54.00, Ryan Lochte (2011)
Junior World Record – 1:56.99, Hubert Kos (2021)
Jr. world record – 1:58.46, Carson Foster (2019)

Top 8 Qualifiers:

Sanberk Yigit Oktar (TUR) – 2:01.76
Simone Spedicci (ITA) – 2:02.54
Tomoyuki Matsushita (JPN) – 2:02.64
Minkyu Noh (KOR) – 2:02.71
Clan Keylock (RSA) – 2:03.41
Roberto Bonilla (GUA) – 2:03.47
Yuta Watanabe (JPN) – 2:03.73
Kun Ming Fu (TPE) – 2:03.80

Turkey’s Sanberk Yigit Oktar, who just turned 18 last week, topped the boys’ heats in the 200th IM this morning with 2:01.76. Oktar set the tone early, splitting 26.13 on fly which was the fastest fly split in the field. This was followed by a 30.13 backsplit, which was also the fastest backsplit in the field.

Simone Spediacci (Italy) was second this morning in 2:02.54, with a 36.11 breast split and 28.72 free split for a 1:04.83 in the 2nd 100. Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita, who started the race as top seed , finished third this morning in 2:02.64. Matsushita moved on the sternum and shared a 35.68.

Guatemala’s Roberto Bonilla had the fastest breast split in the field at 35:31.