The fourth day of the 2023 World Junior Championships kicked off with a full slate of occasions.

The girls’s 50 backstroke begins the day, adopted by the boys’s 50 butterfly, the ladies’s 400 free, the boys’s 200 breaststroke, the ladies’s 200 IM and the boys’s 4×200 free relay.

All the motion from the fourth day of prelims competitors in Netanya, Israel:

Women’s 50 Backstroke

The fourth day kicked off with the ladies’s 50 backstroke heats and eight swimmers went sub-29 as the highest 16 certified for the semifinals within the occasion.

Australia’s Iona Anderson took the highest seed in 28.16, three tenths of a second forward of USA’s Erika Pelaez, who reached the wall in 28.48.

Japan’s Miri Sasaki took the third spot (28.69), adopted by a tie between Italy’s Giada Gorlier and Australia’s Jacklyn Barclay (28.84).

USA’s Teagan O’Dell took the eighth spot in 28.96.

Men’s 50 Butterfly

Denmark’s Casper Puggaard was the one swimmer to go sub-24 within the heats of the boys’s 50 butterfly and can take the highest seed into the semifinals.

Austria’s Lukas Edl took the second spot (24.14), adopted by Kazakhstan Maxim Skazobtsov (24.17) and Australia’s Enoch Robb (24.22).

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