World Swimming Championships Results

World Swimming Championships Results
By The Associated Press
Thursday
At Melbourne, Australia
Men
100 Freestyle
Final
1 (tie), Brent Hayden, Canada, and Filippo Magnini, Italy, 48.43. 3, Eamon Sullivan, Australia, 48.47. 4, Cesar Cielo, Brazil, 48.51. 5, Jason Lezak, United States, 48.52. 6. Pieter van den Hoogenband, Netherlands, 48.63. 7, Roland Schoeman, South Africa, 48.72. 8, Ryk Neethling, South Africa, 48.81.
200 Backstroke
Preliminaries (Top 16 to semifinals)
1, Aaron Peirsol, United States, 1:57.79. 2, Ryan Lochte, United States, 1:57.95. 3, James Goddard, Britain, 1:58.36. 4, Markus Rogan, Austria, 1:59.00. 5, Razvan Florea, Romania, 1:59.25. 6, Tomomi Morita, Japan, 1:59.37. 7, Arkady Vyatchanin, Russia, 1:59.85. 7, Gregor Tait, Britain, 1:59.85. 9, Masafumi Yamaguchi, Japan, 1:59.98. 10, Ephraim Hannant, Australia, 2:00.31.
11, Damiano Lestingi, Italy, 2:00.38. 12, Luca Marin, Italy, 2:00.42, 13. Pedro Oliveira, Portugal, 2:00.62. 14, Itai Chammah, Israel, 2:00.93. 15, Nicholas Neckles, Barbabos, 2:01.18. 16, Ouyang Kunpeng, China, 2:01.21. 17, Simon Dufour, France, 2:01.52. 18, Derya Buyukuncu, Turkey, 2:01.57. 18, Georgios Demetis, Greece, 2:01.57. 20, George Du Rand, South Africa, 2:01.79.
21, Zhang Bodong, China, 2:01.88. 22, Ehud Segal, Israel, 2:02.02. 23, Andre Schultz, Brazil, 2:02.16. 24, Hayden Stoeckel, Australia, 2:02.32. 25, Helge Meeuw, Germany, 2:02.34. 26, Jens Thiele, Germany, 2:04.02.27, Juan Jose Veloz Davila, Mexico, 2:04.47. 28, Lee Seunghyeon, South Korea, 2:04.66. 29, Pavel Sankovich, Belarus, 2:05.02. 30, Miguel Robles, Mexico, 2:05.54.
31, Sergey Pankov, Uzbekistan, 2:05.90. 32, Andriy Oleynyk, Ukraine, 2:07.22. 33, Garth Tune, South Africa, 2:07.81. 35, Taki M'Rabet, Tunisia, 2:08.46. 35, Cheah Geoffrey Robin, Hong Kong, 2:09.22. 36, David Dunford, Kenya, 2:09.34. 37, Yury Zaharov, Kyrgysztan, 2:10.36. 38, Felix Cristiadi Sutanto, Indonesia, 2:10.42. 39, Emile Rony Bakale, Congo, 2:10.85. 40, Gael Adam, Mauritius, 2:11.13.
41, Zach Ong, Singapore, 2:12.16. 42, Kevin Soow Choy Yeap, Malaysia, 2:12.32. 43, Stanislav Ossinkskiy, Kazakhstan, 2:12.65. 44, Sohaib Kalali, Syria, 2:12.79. 45, Shahin Baradaran, Iran, 2:14.53. 46, Lin Yu-an, Taiwan, 2:14.65. 47, Francisco Montenegro, Guam, 2:14.71. 48, Adonis Ganiev, Uzbekistan, 2:14.79. 49, Eric Chang, Malaysia, 2:15.33. 50, Joshua Lim, Singapore, 2:16.01.
Semifinals
Heat One -- 1, Ryan Lochte, United States, 1:55.99 (Q). 2, Markus Rogan, Austria, 1:56.62 (Q). 3, Arkady Vyatchanin, Russia, 1:57.56 (Q). 4, Tomomi Morita, Japan, 1:58.91 (Q). 5, Luca Marin, Italy, 1:59.81. 6, Ouyang Kunpeng, China, 1:59.91. 7, Ephraim Hannant, Australia, 2:00.95. 8, Itai Chammah, Israel, 2:01.79.
Heat Two -- 1, Aaron Peirsol, United States, 1:56.39 (Q). 2, Razvan Florea, Romania, 1:58.59 (Q). 3, James Goddard, Britain, 1:58.68 (Q). 4, Gregor Tait, Britain, 1:59.52 (Q). 5, Masafumi Yamaguchi, Japan, 2:00.03. 6, Damiano Lestingi, Italy, 2:00.17. 7, Pedro Oliveira, Portugal, 2:01.18. 8, Nicholas Neckles, Barbados, 2:01.66.
200 Breaststroke
Preliminaries (Top 16 to semifinals)
1, Kosuke Kitajima, Japan, 2:11.07. 2, Loris Facci, Italy, 2:12.07. 3, Paolo Bossini, Italy, 2:12.20. 4, Mike Brown, Canada, 2:12.39. 5, Daniel Gyurta, Hungary, 2:12.61. 6, Jim Piper, Australia, 2:12.94. 7, Eric Shanteau, United States, 2:13.00. 8, Igor Borysik, Ukraine, 2:13.10. 8, Grigori Falko, Russia, 2:13.10. 10, Valeriy Dymo, Ukraine, 2:13.11.
11, Brenton Rickard, Australia, 2:13.18. 12, Kristopher Gilchrist, Britain, 2:13.36. 13, Alexander Ovchinnikov, Russia, 2:13.67. 14, Daisuke Kimura, Japan, 2:13.86. 15, Alexander Oen, Norway, 2:14.00. 16, Lai Zhongjian, China, 2:14.03. 17, Slawomir Wolniak, Poland, 2:14.20. 18, Robin van Aggele, Netherlands, 2:14.66. 19, Mihail Alexandrov, Bulgaria, 2:14.74. 20, Chris Boe Christensen, Denmark, 2:14.76.
21, Slawomir Kuczko, Poland, 2:14.80. 22, James Kirton, Britain, 2:14.93. 23, Cameron Van Der Burgh, South Africa, 2:15.10. 24, Romanos Alyfantis, Greece, 2:15.11. 25, Jiri Jedlicka, Czech Republic, 2:15.19. 26, Sofiane Daid, Algeria, 2:15.54. 27, Maxim Podoprigora, Austria, 2:15.80. 28, Sin Su-jong, South Korea, 2:15.88. 29, Richard Bodor, Hungary, 2:15.89.
31, Tom Beeri, Israel, 2:16.32. 32, Giedrius Titenis, Lithuania, 2:16.50. 33, Henrique Barbosa, Brazil, 2:16.89. 34, Valentin Preda, Romania, 2:16.97. 35, Johannes Neumann, Germany, 2:17.72. 36, Edvinas Dautartas, Lithuania, 2:17.74. 37, Vasilios Demetis, Greece, 2:18.28. 38, Glenn Snyders, New Zealand, 2:18.72. 39, Dimitri Waeber, Switzerland, 2:20.02. 40, Wang Wei-wen, Taiwan, 2:20.54.
41, Zhao Tao, China, 2:21.64. 42, Malick Fall, Senegal, 2:21.74. 43, Billy Arfianto, Indonesia, 2:21.82. 44, Andrey Morkovin, Uzbekistan, 2:22.58. 45, Chiang Hsin-huang, Taiwan, 2:22.59. 46, Leonard Tan, Singapore, 2:23.33. 47, Diego Bonilla, Colombia, 2:23.50. 48, Vidvuds Maculevics, Latvia, 2:23.53. 49, Herry Yudhianto, Indonesia, 2:24.47. 50, Kevin Hensley, Virgin Islands, 2:25.63.
Semifinals
Heat One -- 1, Loris Facci, Italy, 2:11.48 (Q). 2, Mike Brown, Canada, 2:11.61 (Q). 3, Grigori Falko, Russia, 2:12.44 (Q). 4, Valeriy Dymo, Ukraine, 2:12.78. 5, Jim Piper, Australia, 2:13.40. 6, Kristopher Gilchrist, Britain, 2:13.44. 7, Lai Zhongjian, China, 2:14.44. DSQ: Daisuke Kimura, Japan.
Heat Two -- 1, Kosuke Kitajima, Japan, 2:10.30 (Q). 2. Paolo Bossini, Italy, 2:11.41 (Q). 3, Brenton Rickard, Australia, 2:11.41 (Q). 4, Eric Shanteau, United States, 2:11.54 (Q). 5, Daniel Gyurta, Hungary, 2:12.31 (Q). 6, Alexander Ovchinnikov, Russia, 2:13.45. 7, Igor Borysik, Ukraine, 2:14.00. 8, Alexander Oen, Norway, 2:14.63.
200 Individual Medley
Final
1, Michael Phelps, United States, 1:54.98 (world record; previous record, 1:55.84, Phelps, Aug. 21, 2006), 2, Ryan Lochte, United States, 1:56.19. 3, Laszlo Cseh, Hungary, 1:56.92. 4, Thiago Pereira, Brazil, 1:58.98. 5, Brian Johns, Canada, 1:59.46. 6, Tamas Kerekjarto, Hungary, 1:59.57. 7, Vytautas Janusaitis, Lithuania, 1:59.84. 8, Dean Kent, New Zealand, 2:00.73.
Women
50 Backstroke
Final
1, Leila Vaziri, United States, 28.16 (tied own world record of 28.16, March 28, 2007). 2, Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus, 28.46. 3, Tayliah Zimmer, Australia, 28.50. 4, Zhao Jin, China, 28.54. 5, Reiko Nakamura, Japan, 28.64. 6, Gao Chang, China, 28.70. 7, Mai Nakamura, Japan, 28.86. 8, Janine Pietsch, Germany, 28.87.
100 Freestyle
Preliminaries (Top 16 to semifinals)
1, Natalie Coughlin, United States, 54.04. 2, Erica Morningstar, Canada, 54.30. 3, Libby Lenton, Australia, 54.32. 4, Britta Steffen, Germany, 54.60. 5, Josefin Lillhage, Sweden, 54.74. 6, Jodie Henry, Australia, 54.76. 7, Francesca Halsall, Britain, 54.80. 8, Marleen Veldhuis, Netherlands, 54.89. 9, Amanda Weir, United States, 55.03. 10, Alena Popchanka, France, 55.11.
11, Xu Yanwei, China, 55.24. 12, Hanna-Maria Seppala, Finland, 55.33. 13, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherland, 55.38. 14, Malia Metella, France, 55.57. 15, Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus, 55.59. 16, Vanessa Garcia, Puerto Rico, 55.69. 17, Jeanette Ottesen, Denmark, 55.99. 18, Pang Jiaying, China, 56.03. 18, Lauren Boyle, New Zealand, 56.03. 20, Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir, Israel, 56.06.
21, Jana Myskova, Czech Republic, 56.24. 22, Victoria Poon, Canada, 56.30. 23, Arlene Semeco, Venezuela, 56.35. 24, Lee Keo-ra, South Korea, 56.44. 25, Sviatlana Khakhlova, Belarus, 56.52. 25, Martina Moravcova, Slovakia, 56.52. 27, Ganna Dzerkal, Ukraine, 56.53. 28, Cristina Chiuso, Italy, 56.56. 29, Magdalena Kuras, Sweden, 56.58. 30, Jana Kolukanova, Estonia, 56.67.
31, Birgit Koschischek, Austria, 56.75. 32, Flavia Cazziolato, Brazil, 56.90. 32, Elina Partoka, Estonia, 56.90. 34, Karin Prinsloo, South Africa, 57.06. 35, Hannah Wilson, Hong Kong, 57.08. 36, Miroslava Najdanovski, Serbia, 57.11. 36, Ionela Cozma, Romania, 57.11. 38, Jorina Aerents, Belgium, 57.18. 39, Haruka Ueda, Japan, 57.21. 40, Petra Klosova, Czech Republic, 57.28.
41, Oxana Serikova, Ukraine, 57.29. 42, Yang Chin-kuei, Taiwan, 57.30. 43, Olga Shulgina, Russia, 57.48. 44, Melanie Nocher, Ireland, 57.72. 45, Caroline Pickering-Puamau, Fiji, 57.85. 45. Emily Vavourakis, Belgium, 57.85. 47, Nieh Pin-chieh, Taiwan, 57.93. 48, Heather Brand, Zimbabwe, 57.95. 49, Jiratida Phinyosophon, Thailand, 58.03. 50, Sarah Chahed, Tunisia, 58.07.
100 freestyle
Semifinals
Heat One -- 1, Britta Steffen, Germany, 54.05 (Q). 2, Erica Morningstar, Canada, 54.08 (Q). 3, Marleen Veldhuis, Netherlands, 54.17 (Q). 4, Jodie Henry, Australia, 54.23 (Q). 5, Malia Metella, France, 54.61 (Q). 6, Alena Popchanka, France, 54.99. 7, Hanna-Maria Seppala, Finland, 55.31. 8, Vanessa Garcia, Puerto Rica, 56.27.
Heat Two -- 1, Natalie Coughlin, United States, 53.40 (Q). 2, Libby Lenton, Australia, 53.85 (Q). 3, Josefin Lillhage, Sweden, 54.61 (Q). 4, Francesca Halsall, Britain, 54.85. 5, Xu Yanwei, China, 55.10. 6, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands, 55.33. 7, Aliaksandra Herasimenia, Belarus, 55.39. 8, Amanda Weir, United States, 55.47.
200 Butterfly
Final
1, Jessicah Schipper, Australia, 2:06.39. 2, Kim Vandenberg, United States, 2:06.71. 3, Otylia Jedrzejczak, Poland, 2:06.90. 4, Jiao Liuyang, 2:07.22. 5, Audrey Lacroix, Canada, 2:07.73. 6, Yuko Nakanishi, Japan, 2:09.43. 7, Sara Isakovic, Slovenia, 2:09.66. 8, Aurore Mongel, France, 2:13.61.
200 Breaststroke
Preliminaries (Top 16 to semifinals)
1, Suzaan van Biljon, South Africa, 2:27.03. 2, Sandra Jakobsson, Sweden, 2:27.08. 3, Leisel Jones, Australia, 2:27.10. 4, Birte Steven, Germany, 2:27.85. 5, Jung Seul-ki, South Korea, 2:27.90. 6, Tara Kirk, United States, 2:28.50. 7, Kirsty Balfour, Britain, 2:28.53. 8, Megan Jendrick, 2:28.71. 9, Hanna Westrin, Sweden, 2:28.95. 10, Asami Kitagawa, Japan, 2:29.34.
11, Anna Khlistunova, Ukraine, 2:29.38. 12, Luo Nan, China, 2:29.54. 13, Qi Hui, China, 2:30.05. 14, Yuliya Pidslina, Ukraine, 2:30.17. 15, Mirna Jukic, Austria, 2:30.45. 16, Beata Kaminska, Poland, 2:30.61. 17, Anne-Mari Gulbrandsen, Norway, 2:30.84. 18, Sally Foster, Australia, 2:30.85. 19, Ina Kapishina, Belarus, 2:31.02. 20, Anne Poleska, Germany, 2:31.24.
21, Sophie de Ronchi, France, 2:31.30. 22, Chiara Boggiatto, Italy, 2:31.49. 23, Elena Bogomazova, Russia, 2:32.59. 23, Marina Kuc, Montenegro, 2:32.59. 25, Back Su-yeon, South Korea, 2:32.61. 26, Diana Gomes, Portugal, 2:33.14. 27, Annabelle Carey, New Zealand, 2:34.31. 28, Yoshimi Miwa, Japan, 2:34.58. 29, Jackie Pangilinan, Philippines, 2:36.24. 30, Sara Elbekri, Morocco, 2:36.28.
31, Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas, Mexico, 2:37.07. 32, Ciara Farrell, Ireland, 2:37.18. 33, Kong Man Yi, Hong Kong, 2:41.45. 34, Anastasia Christoforou, Cyprus, 2:41.94. 35, Cheryl Lim, Singapore, 2:42.52. 36, Lina Cahya Utami, Indonesia, 2:42.77. 37, Daniela Victoria, Venezuela, 2:42.87. 38, Lin Man-hsu, Taiwan, 2:45.47. 39, Rina Desak, Indonesia, 2:47.34. 40, On Kei Lei, Macau, 2:49.06.
41, Khoonie Liang, Singapore, 2:49.57. 42, Thuan Tran Thi, Vietnam, 2:49.65. 43, Chen I-chuan, Taiwan, 2:49.85. 44, Katerine Moreno, Bolivia, 2:49.99. 45, Chinyere Pigot, Surinam, 2:50.26. 46, Sin Ian Lei, Macau, 2:50.54. 47, Ranohon Amanova, Uzbekistan, 2:51.50. 48, Nibal Yamout, Libya, 2:51.71. 49, Oksana Hatamkhanova, Azerbaijan, 2:54.27. 50, Blessing Forcados, Nigeria, 2:54.38. 51, Ann Salnikova, Georgia, 2:55.08. 52, Thi Hue Pham, Vietnam, 2:55.35. 53, Karen Lizbeth Poujol Zepeda, Honduras, 2:58.37. 54, Kelly How Tam Fat, Mauritius, 3:00.29. DNS: Louise Jansen, Denmark.
Semifinals
Heat One -- 1, Megan Jendrick, United States, 2:26.14 (Q). 2, Luo Nan, China, 2:27.03 (Q). 3, Sandra Jakobsson, Sweden, 2:27.24 (Q). 4, Tara Kirk, United States, 2:27.41 (Q). 5, Birte Steven, Germany, 2:27.62 (Q). 6, Asami Kitagawa, Japan, 2:28.61. 7, Yuliya Pidslina, Ukraine, 2:31.21. 8, Beata Kaminska, Poland, 2:31.42.
Heat Two -- 1, Leisel Jones, Australia, 2:23.75 (Q). 2, Kirsty Balfour, Britain, 2:25.45 (Q). 3, Suzaan van Biljon, South Africa, 2:25.56 (Q). 4, Jung Seul-ki, South Korea, 2:27.83. 5, Hanna Westrin, Sweden, 2:28.55. 6, Mirna Jukic, Austria, 2:29.40. 7, Anna Khlistunova, Ukraine, 2:30.12. 8, Qi Hui, China, 2:30.45.
800 Freestyle Relay
Semifinals (Top 8 to final)
1, Australia, 7:57.50. 2, Germany, 7:58.76. 3, France, 7:59.48. 4, Japan, 7:59.58. 5, Britain, 8:00.34. 6, Netherlands, 8:02.40. 7, Sweden, 8:02.63. 8, United States, 8:02.87. 9, China, 8:02.98. 10, New Zealand, 8:04.34.
11, Canada, 8:04.82. 12, Spain, 8:06.62. 13, Italy, 8:06.64. 14, Denmark, 8:06.78. 15, Poland, 8:13.13. 16, Romania, 8:18.35. 17, Hong Kong, 8:30.55. 18, Singapore, 8:31.65. 19, El Salvador, 8:48.59. 20, Peru, 8:58.83. 21, Thailand, 9:01.94. 22, Macau, 9:03.55. 23, Uzbekistan, 9:12.85. 24, Jordan, 9:19.12. 25, India, 9:22.96.
Final
1, United States (Natalie Coughlin, Dana Vollmer, Lacey Nymeyer, Katie Hoff), 7:50.09 (world record; previous record, 7:50.82, Germany, Aug. 3, 2006) 2, Germany (Meike Freitag, Britta Steffen, Petra Dallmann, Annika Lurz), 7:53.82. 3, France (Alena Popchanka, Sophie Huber, Aurore Mongel, Laure Manaudou), 7:55.96. 4, Australia, 7:56.42. 5, Britain, 7:57.02. 6, Japan, 7:58.04. 7, Sweden, 8:02.34. 8, Netherlands, 8:04.81.
Water Polo
Women
Semifinals
Australia 12, Russia 9
United States 10, Hungary 9
5-8 Classification
Italy 10, Greece 9
Canada 8, Spain 5
Ninth Place
Netherlands 11, Brazil 2
11th Place
Germany 12, New Zealand 11
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