Ontario’s Penny Oleksiak in the final of the 100m free style

Photo: Martin Bureau Agence France-Presse
Penny Oleksiak, rushing in the semi-final of the 100 m free style.

Budapest — Penny Oleksiak is qualified for the final of the 100 m freestyle, which will take place on Friday at the world swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The Toronto-based 17-year-old took the sixth spot after having a successful time of 53,05 seconds in the pool in the Duna Arena.

Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, who lowered the world record in 51,71 seconds last Sunday on the occasion of the relay 4×100 m freestyle, has been the fastest in 52,44. The American Simone Manuel, who had won gold in a tie with Oleksiak in the olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro, finished second with a time of 52,69.

“I look forward to tomorrow [Friday], go back there and perform, said Oleksiak, who has already won a medal at these World relays 4x100m individual medley (IM) mixed. I have no expectations, I just want to dive in and perform. “

For its part, Sandrine Mainville of Boucherville, took the 13th place in 54,01 seconds.

A little earlier Thursday, the relay canadian 4×200 m free style, within which were the Quebec Katerine Savard and Mary-Sophie Harvey took the eighth and last row of the final.

Savard, from Pont-Rouge, and Harvey, Three Rivers, united their efforts with those of their team mates Rebecca Smith and Mackenzie Margaret Carol Padington to complete the test in 7 minutes and 55,57 seconds.

The representatives of the maple leaf flag showed a deficit of 12.18 seconds on the champions, the American. The podium was completed by quartets chinese and australian.

“This is my first relay senior team and I was nervous this morning,” admitted Harvey, who is aged 17 years. I think that this evening we only wanted to be the best and we have succeeded. […] It is already very good to be in the top 8 at our age, and I feel that we can be very good in the coming years. “

On the other hand, the United States has found a way to be back at the top of the world swimming Championships. And a new u.s. champion was shown in the 200 m IM.

Caeleb Dressel became the new sprinter star of the country, triumphing in the 100 m free style, after beating his fellow countryman and main rival, Nathan Adrian.

Dressel has been a starting gun and won easily, traversing the distance in 47,17 seconds. Adrian came back in the final meters and finished second in 47,87, only two hundredths of a second ahead of france’s Mehdy Metella.

Chase Kalisz continued the domination of the United States in the 200 m IM, coming from behind to claim a first major title internationally. The Americans have won this event over the course of the last eight World of swimming. The Japanese Kosuke Hagino took the silver, and the Chinese Shun Wang completed the podium.

In the 200 m butterfly women, spain’s Mireia Belmonte won in 2:05,26. She was ahead at the finish line, the German Franziska Hentke by only 0.13 seconds, and the favorite local, the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, by 0,76.

In the 50 m back, the Brazilian Etiene Medeiros won the gold in 27,14 seconds. She beat at the wall with the Chinese Yuanhui Fu and the Belarusian Aliaksandra Herasimenia.