
Melanie Costa Schmid, Women 200 Free prelims, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)

Sun Yang and Ous Mellouli, 800 prelim, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)

Sun Yang and Gregorio Paltrinieri , 800 free prelim, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)

Chen Yi and Chad le Clos, 200 butterfly prelim, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)
Camille Muffat, 200 Free prelim, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)

Katinka Hosszu, 200 Free prelim, 2013 FINA World Championships (Photo Credit Victor Puig, victor puig.com)
Many thanks to our friend and photo artist in Barcelona, Spain, Victor Puig (victorpuig.com), for capturing these swimming photos.
See all swimswam coverage of the 2013 FINA World Championships here.
Can someone explain to me how that top picture is legal breast stroke? Do the judges just not care because it is a 50?
ChestRockwell – unless you can see through that splash and I can’t, I don’t see anything illegal about it. Looks like the angle his arms are at would still have his elbows in the water.
Yeah, elbows definitely underwater and that was the height of the stroke.