Canadians Josh Liendo, Kylie Masse attain occasion finals at world aquatics championships

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FUKUOKA, Japan — Josh Liendo certified for 2 finals whereas Kylie Masse superior to the ladies’s 200-metre backstroke remaining Friday on the World Aquatics Championships.

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Liendo, from Toronto, superior to the lads’s 100-metre butterfly after ending third in qualifying.

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He additionally snuck into the 50-metre freestyle remaining in eighth, however elected to not swim that race to concentrate on the 100 fly on Saturday.

“I’ve completed doubles a number of instances and wish to hold getting higher at it as my profession progresses,” mentioned Liendo, 20. “I’m simply having enjoyable and racing arduous.”

Masse, from LaSalle, Ont., reached Saturday’s girls’s 200 backstroke remaining, marking the second straight worlds she’s certified for the ultimate in all three backstroke distances.

Canada had one finalist in motion on Friday as Kelsey Wog of Winnipeg positioned eighth within the girls’s 200 breaststroke in two minutes 25.21 seconds.

Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa received in 2:20.80, Kate Douglass of the USA was second in 2:21.23 and Tes Schouten of the Netherlands was third in 2:21.63.

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“I positively would have appreciated to be a bit quicker but it surely’s at all times expertise being in a remaining,” Wog mentioned. “I positively wish to be putting larger within the remaining sooner or later.”

Liendo began his night profitable his semifinal warmth and rating third general within the males’s 100 butterfly to qualify for Saturday’s remaining in 50.75 seconds.

Dare Rose of the U.S. topped the sphere at 50.53 adopted by Maxime Grousset of France at 50.62

Ilya Kharun of Montreal, who set a Canadian file whereas ending fourth within the males’s 200 butterfly earlier this week, missed the reduce by 0.05 seconds.

“I suppose it was positive as a result of I dropped (my time), however positively disappointing getting ninth place,” mentioned Kharun, 18. ”I’ve positively bought to get quicker that’s for positive. I’m glad for Josh that he made it to the ultimate, hopefully he will get into that top-three.”

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About half-hour later, Liendo snuck into the 50 free remaining rating eighth in 21.88, making the reduce by 0.03 seconds.

Within the girls’s 200 backstroke, Masse reached her third remaining of the week qualifying fifth in 2:08.51.

“I bought the job completed, so I’m trying ahead to tomorrow night time and hopefully enhancing on that,” mentioned Masse, an eight-time world championship medallist (together with relays) along with her 4 Olympic medals.

Masse, who was fourth within the 100 and 50 earlier within the week, has reached the ultimate in 10 of 11 races in backstroke occasions during the last 4 world championships. The final swimmer to succeed in all three girls’s backstroke finals at two straight worlds was Australian Emily Seebohm in 2015 and 2017.

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Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., was twelfth within the girls’s 50 fly semifinal.

Within the morning preliminaries, Canada’s males’s 4×200 freestyle relay group — Ruslan Gaziev of Toronto, Patrick Hussey of Beaconsfield, Que., Finlay Knox of Okotoks, Alta., and Javier Acevedo of Toronto — ranked twelfth in 7:10.67.

Emma Finlin of Edmonton was 18th within the girls’s 800 freestyle.

Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ont., the silver medallist within the 100 butterfly Monday, ranked nineteenth within the 50 fly prelims in 26.33.

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