American sprinter Kelsi Worrell made her World Cup debut Saturday morning in Singapore, and she captured the top seed in the very first event she swam. Worrell dominated on the college level the past two years with her excellent underwater skills, and now that she has graduated, she is putting those abilities on display in front of a more global audience in the slightly longer short course meters pool.
Worrell opened the morning session with a 53.12 in the women’s 100 free, well ahead of the rest of the pack. Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (53.56) and Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen (53.63) figure to be her closest competition in finals. Later in the session, Worrell finished just behind Ottesen in the women’s 50 fly as Ottesen led the way in 25.71, Worrell was second in 25.73, and Canada’s Katerine Savard qualified third in 25.79.
Hosszu, who won four gold medals on day one in Singapore, earned the top seed in the women’s 200 IM in 2:10.98, just ahead of countrywoman Zsuzsanna Jakobos (2:11.53). She later topped the field in the 400 free, where she posted a 4:09.49 to top China’s Dong Jie (4:10.41) and another Hungarian, Boglarka Kapas (4:11.40). Hosszu picked up a third top seed of the morning in the women’s 100 IM, where she clocked 1:00.15 to edge out Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson (1:00.21), Australia’s Emily Seebohm (1:00.79) and Japan’s Kanako Watanabe (1:00.83).
Hosszu currently leads the overall World Cup standings on the women’s side, and the men’s points leader, Russia’s Vladimir Morozov, also showed good form in prelims. Morozov, after winning the 100 free and 100 IM Friday, finished first in the 100 breast prelims in 58.93, narrowly topping Brazil’s Felipe Lima (59.01). Morozov later qualified first in the 50 free in 21.48, three one-hundredths ahead of Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (21.51).
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