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Simonas Bilis Cracks Lithuanian 100 Free Record Again In 46.11
2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Tuesday, December 11th – Sunday, December 16th Hangzhou, China Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center SCM (25m) Prelims: 9:30 am local, 8:30 pm ET / Finals: 7:00 pm* local, 6:00* am ET *The final night of finals will be one hour earlier, starting at 6:00 pm local and 5:00 am ET Live Results (Omega) Simonas Bilis once again broke his Lithuanian Record in the men’s 100 freestyle, clocking a time of 46.11 in the final to finish 5th.
Simonas Bilis Already Ahead Of 100 Free Winning Time From Windsor
2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Tuesday, December 11th – Sunday, December 16th Hangzhou, China Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center SCM (25m) Live Results (Omega) The 2016 Short Course World Champion in the men’s 100m freestyle, Simonas Bilis of Lithuania, has already surpassed the time it took him to win this event 2 years ago.
Simonas Bilis Becomes First Lithuanian Man Ever Under 21 Seconds
2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Tuesday, December 11th – Sunday, December 16th Hangzhou, China Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center Live Results (Omega) The men’s 50m free final tonight in Hangzhou was an intense battle from start to finish, with British stud Ben Proud drawing a disqualification for a false start. That bumped Lithuanian star Simonas Bilis up to the 4th spot with his impressive time of 20.99, a new lifetime best and National Record.
Simonas Bilis Breaks Lithuanian Record To Win 50 Free Swim-Off
After tying for 8th in the semi-finals of the men’s 50 free, both clocking 22.04, Ukrainian Andrii Govorov and Lithuanian Simonas Bilis squared off in a swim-off for the final spot in tomorrow night’s final. Govorov had been quicker in the prelims at 21.95, while Bilis barely even got into the semis with his morning swim of 22.42.
Watch Caeleb Dressel's Record 40.46 100-Yard Freestyle
Already downing his own records in the 50-yard freestyle, Caeleb Dressel came back on Saturday night to swam the fastest 100-yard free in history with a final time of 40.46. Courtesy of Ben Schmitz and the Florida swimming & diving Twitter account, the race can be seen below. The podium held the same order as the 50-yard freestyle from Thursday, with NC State’s Simonas Bilis clocking in at 41.18, and Alabama’s Kristian Gkolomeev in 41.52.
Caeleb Dressel Breaks American, NCAA, U.S. Open Records in 100 Free
Florida sophomore Caeleb Dressel has broken the NCAA, American, and U.S. Open Records in the 100 yard freestyle. He swam a 40.46 on Saturday on the final day of the 2016 Men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, which goes down as the fastest time in history. The old NCAA and U.S. Open Records belonged to former USC Trojan, and Russian, Vlad Morozov. The American Record was Dressel’s own: a 41.07 done at this year’s SEC Championships.
College Meet Round Up 11/19/15-11/22/15
This weekend’s invites saw standard setting swimming across the nation. Here are a few of the highlights from four of this weekend’s big meets, in case you missed them: At the Georgia Tech Invite, competition was in long course- giving swimmers the opportunity to hit their Olympic Trials cuts. At the meet, there were thirteen swims that were under the Omaha standard. Four of those were from Americans.
Bilis Splits 41.6 To Close 2015 Nike Cup; Duke Men, UNC Women Win
NC State star Simonas Bilis was absent from the first two days of the 2015 Nike Cup, but arrived on day 3 to blast a huge relay split in the winning 400 free relay. Meanwhile, deep team efforts saw the Duke men and North Carolina women win the meet despite no swimming wins for either program on day 3. NC State won 4 of 7 events on the final night to seal a second-place team finish, though the story of the meet for the Wolfpack was often who wasn’t swimming as much as who was.
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