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The 3rd FINA World Junior Swimming Championships came to an end on August 21 in Lima (PER), with 42 new championships records and 19 countries with medals among the 58 nations that participated inthe event with 528 swimmers (246 women and 282 men). Lima’s edition was a success with the best set of results since the creation of this World Championships, in 2006.

United States dominated on themedal count (11 gold, eight silver and three bronze) and on the scores (964 points), followed by Canada (620) and Japan (516.50). The Japanese team won 19 medals (seven gold, nine silver and threebronze) and the Canadian earned 14 (four gold, five silver and five bronze).


In the last day of finals, Australian Cameron McEvoy (1994, 50.16) was the fastest in the men’s 100m freestyle. McEvoyalso was the champion in the 50m on Day 3, becoming the “king of the sprint” in Lima. The silver medal was shared by Dmitry Ermakov (RUS, 1994, 50.46) and Pawel Werener (POL, 1993).

Kanako Watanabe(JPN, 1996, 2:25.52) dominated the operations in the women’s 200m breaststroke. Lisa Fissinaider (ITA, 1994, 2:26.01) was silver medallist, after getting the gold in the 50m and 100m breaststroke. Thethird place went to Irina Navikova (RUS, 1995, 2:26.04).

United States established the first championships record of the last session of finals, with the triumph of Pebley Jacob (1993, 1:58.73) inthe men’s 200m backstroke. Jacob entered the competition with the fourth best time and was naturally thrilled with the gold medal. He was followed by Kosuke Hagino (JPN, 1994, 1:58.94) and Ryan Murphy(1995, 1:59.62). The three first finished under the previous record, 1:59.67, established in 2008.

In one of the most balanced events of the night, Rachel Kelly (GBR, 1994, 59.37) won the women’s100m freestyle, in a new championships record. Japanese Rino Hosoda (1995, 59.39) and Alexandra Wenk (GER, 1994, 59.64) were respectively the silver and the bronze medallists.

Evan Pinion (USA,...