{"id":108647,"date":"2021-07-30T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T12:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=108647"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T12:57:00","slug":"mckeon-snaps-olympic-record-in-freestyle-heats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=108647","title":{"rendered":"McKeon snaps Olympic record in freestyle heats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's Emma McKeon<\/a> has continued her golden Tokyo Olympics<\/a> by setting an Olympic record in the 50m freestyle heats.<\/p>\n

McKeon's time of 24.02 was the quickest of the 11 heats, with Cate Campbell<\/a> qualifying third quickest with 24.15.<\/p>\n

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Both the Australians beat out Swedish 50m world record holder Sarah Sjoestroem who swam a 24.26.<\/p>\n

China's Zhang Yufei, who took out gold in the 200m butterfly and the 4x200m freestyle relay, qualified sixth quickest for the semi-finals with a 24.36 swim.<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there was no such success for Australia in the men's 50m freestyle heats, with Cameron McEvoy failing to qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

McEvoy's 22.31 ranked 29th in the heats, much slower than the 21.89 he swam in the 50m semi-finals in Rio five years ago.<\/p>\n

American star Caeleb Dressel qualified quickest for the semi-finals with 21.32 ahead of Rio silver medallist Florent Manaudou (France) who swam a 21.65.<\/p>\n

Brazil's Bruno Fratus, who reached the 50m freestyle final in Rio was fourth-quickest in the heats with 21.67.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

There was also heartbreak for Australia in the men's 1500m freestyle heats with Jack McLoughlin unable to qualify for the final after finishing 10th in the heats with a time of 14:56.98.<\/p>\n

Ukraine's Mykhailo Romanchuk led all qualifiers with a time of 14:45.99, beating out USA's Robert Finke (14:47.20) and Germany's Florian Wellbrock (14:48.53). <\/p>\n

There was more luck in both the men's and women's 4 x 100m medley relay, with the women's team qualifying third-fastest for the final, while the men's team finished sixth fastest.<\/p>\n

Australia looked to be in danger of missing the final before a brilliant final 50m from anchor Kyle Chalmers (22.73) allowed the team to finish third in its heat.<\/p>\n

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