2017 FINA World Cup – Tokyo
- Tuesday, Nov 14 – Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017
- Tokyo, Japan
- Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center
- Short Course Meters (SCM) Format
- Series Points Through Beijing
- Series Money Lists Through Beijing
- Live results
Women’s Events
Sarah Sjostrom topped Ranomi Kromowidjojo in the 50 fly and Cate Campbell in the 200 free for two hard-fought wins on day 1 in Tokyo.
Currently leading series points and money lists, Sjostrom put herself in the driver’s seat of Cluster 3 with a pair of wins, outpacing her closest rivals Kromowidjojo and Katinka Hosszu.
Sjostrom went 24.65 to win the 50 fly, topping Kromowidjojo’s 24.81. Both were within half a second of the world record, which should put them in the running for FINA Point performance bonuses in Tokyo. Further back in the field, bronze medalist Rikako Ikee broke a world junior record with a 25.14, technically shaving six tenths off her own record. Ikee was 25.32 last December, but that record was never ratified by FINA.
Later, Sjostrom went 1:52.94 to blow out Campbell (1:54.69) in the 200 free.
Hosszu managed a 400 IM win (4:22.05) by a wide margin, and should still have three entries left for tomorrow. Other winners were Emily Seebohm in the 50 back (26.24) in a tight race with Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros (26.34) and Rikke Moller Pedersen in the 200 breast (2:18.29).
Men’s Events
Meanwhile in the men’s race, Chad le Clos leads by a wide margin, but Vladimir Morozov is tied with him for the Cluster 3 lead. Morozov beat le Clos head-to-head in the 100 free on day 1 to set himself up for a big weekend, though Le Clos won a race of his own, too.
Morozov went 45.65 to top le Clos (46.09) in the 100 free. Le Clos would return to win the 50 fly in 22.49 with Morozov 5th. That means Le Clos should have the early points edge (21-12) with both men holding two more event entries in Tokyo. However, Morozov’s swim is the highest in FINA points so far, and if that holds up, it’ll net him a 24-point bonus, a big edge over le Clos.
Yasuhiro Koseki trails Morozov’s FINA point value by just one point with his 56.49 100 breast win. That beat tour stalwarts Kirill Prigoda (56.71) and Ilya Shymanovich (57.15).
Other men’s winners were Masaki Kaneko in the 200 back (1:49.74), Mykhailo Romanchuk in the 1500 free (14:28.26) and Daiya Seto in the 200 IM (1:51.40).
It’s interesting that Cate Campbell continues to dabble in the 200FS. A 1.54 is not too bad and I think she did go low 1.58 LC in one of her first races after Rio. It’s unlikely we’ll see her swimming the 200 in the major competitions but she could be a useful member of
Australia’s 4X200 team. The USA often used Jenny Thompson and Natalie Coughlin who were predominantly sprinters in the 4X200 and Australia did it with Libby Lenton. I think Cate Campbell with her long fluid stroke could be even better than them in the longer distance.
A good sign too for her too is she’s lowered her PB in both the 50m Butterfly plus 200m Frees in SC. Only one she failed in was her 50m Backstroke attempt last week in Beijing
Yes, it will be curious to see how far C1 may dip into the 200free. Historically, she has only ever entered them for the purposes of laying down a 100 time trial but she DID drop in a 1.58.21 in March at NSW Titles.
There is certainly an opening for her in the AUS W4X200 IF she can drop her flat start PB down to around 1.57flat as this AUS relay is significantly weaker than its Rio vintage. McKeon remains a significant “gun” (if her competition program is managed far better than in Budapest) but the retirement of Barratt (a 1.55 splitter) leaves a major hole. Cook (1.56 low split in Rio) has returned after 12 months out but… Read more »
I know Jack said she’ll also be focusing on the 200m but not sure if that will be more of a plan for 2020 Olympics than CGs since her time was off her PB at the Nationals (she’s at mid 1.58’s right now).
At this point, it has been her 50 & 100 that have shown the major improvements. Whilst she’s still probably some way off really competing for one of the individual 100 spots, she is realistically now firming as the 4th member of the 4×100. Furthermore, unless C2 gets her shoulders properly “sorted”, her hold on the 2nd individual berth in the 50free may be legitimately challenged by Jack. As for 200, the opening is there for ANY AUS female freestyler who can produce 1.57flat/low flat start to force their way onto the 4×200 relay.
Are all the finals results showing on Omega? I can’t see the women’s 200 fly, for example?
1 3 ZHANG Yufei CHN 0.73 28.50 1:01.18 1:33.47 2:05.02 875
32.68 32.29 31.55
1 19 APR
1998
2 4 HENTKE Franziska GER 0.66 28.86 1:00.84 1:33.55 2:06.30 849
31.98 32.71 32.75
1 4 JUN
1989
3 5 LICCIARDI Christina AUS 0.63 29.25 1:01.88 1:34.98 2:08.75 801
32.63 33.10 33.77
1 21 SEP
1995
4 7 LIU Jing CLB 0.63 28.15 1:00.97 1:35.08 2:09.11 795
32.82 34.11 34.03
1 21 JAN
2000
5 6 PARK Yerin KOR 0.73 28.83 1:01.78 1:35.55 2:09.60 786
32.95 33.77 34.05
1 29 APR
2000
6 1 KAPAS Boglarka HUN 0.65 29.97 1:03.12 1:37.02 2:10.82… Read more »
Thank you!
Nice swim for Rikke Moeller Pedersen; I think that time would have won World SC last year. I hope she can come back to her best, her golden years were stolen by a cheat and no athlete would be more deserving of having their moment on the top step at a major LCM competition. With hindsight, she was so far ahead of the rest of the work on 2013/2014. Sport can be so cruel!
How can i watch this live
You need two things. A VPN installed on your computer and a subscription to Fina TV. Both are relatively inexpensive. These two things will cement your swim-nerd status. I use SaferVPN and it works fine.
Do you know which countries allow access? I kept hitting the no access screen even though i was looking at the list FINA has on their site…
I pointed the VPN to New Zealand (random choice) and it worked fine.
Holy cow 45.65 is crazy. Also per Chads Instagram this is his 27th 50 fly scm win not counting world champs which brings him to 29 straight wins
Sounds like he could use some competition. a couple of short course butterfly stalwarts come to mind….
Competition that would still lose.
Peak Dressel and schooling would go 47s lol
Very bold claim from someone who thinks scm makes no difference
They are the two fastest men ever in LCM and SCY. SCM would be no different.
You and I have very different definitions of “bold”
Oh one of those actually world records don’t count in lzrs guys
That’s dumb logic used by people who don’t know about distances in swimming
Cesar Cielo fastest ever in long course didn’t get the scm free records oh and he was the fastest in yards at the time too. Flawless logic
Cielo never peaked for scm like Chad does lol
So he’s gonna go faster sometime?
Only 2 men have the fastest long course and the fastest scm time. Where is your logic ????