Jul 28, 2012 07:30 AM EDT
Olympics 2012 Swimming Heats Results: Winners of Saturday's Competition, Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte Amongst Finalists

Dana Vollmer set an Olympic record with her 56.25 finish in the Women's 100m Butterfly on Saturday morning.

She will, of course, advance to the Semifinals, which are set to take place tomorrow before the competition's Finals. 

Vollmer will be joined in the 100m Butterfly Semis by Ying Lu of China, Alicia Coutts of Australia, Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden, Jeanette Ottemen Gray of Denmark, Liuyang Jao of China, Claire Donahue of the USA, Francesca Halsall of Great Britain, Ellen Gandy also from GB, Inge Dekker from the Netherlands, Li Tao of Singapore, Italian Ilaria Bianchi, Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus, Martina Granstron of Sweden, Japanese Yuka Kato and finally from Switzerland, Kristel Vourna.

In the Men's 400m Freestyle, Americans Peter Vanderkaay and Conor Dwyer both made it on to the Finals. This is what their qualifying list looked like. 

1
Sun Yang 3:45.07
2   VANDERKAAY Peter 3:45.80

3
DWYER Conor 3:46.24

4
KIS Gergo 3:46.77

5
HAO Yun 3:46.88

6
NAPOLEON Ryan 3:47.01

7
CARRY David 3:47.25

8
COCHRANE Ryan 3:47.26

The Women's 400m Individual medley was highlighted by Great Britain's Hannah Miley, who swam in the third heat of the event. She finished in 4:34.98. The crowd went crazy when she finished the race. American Elizabeth Beisel finished with the best time after posting a 4:31.68.

1

  BEISEL Elizabeth

4:31.68

Q

2

  YE Shiwen

4:31.73

Q

3

  HOSSZU Katinka

4:33.77

Q

4

  LI Xuanxu

4:34.28

Q

5

  BELMONTE GARCIA Mireia

4:34.70

Q

6

  MILEY Hannah

4:34.98

Q

7

  RICE Stephanie

4:35.76

Q

8

  LEVERENZ Caitlin

4:36.09

Q

The Men's 100m Breaststroke qualifiers finished out:

Rank

Athlete

Time

 

1

  SPRENGER Christian

59.62

Q

2

  KITAJIMA Kosuke

59.63

Q

3

  TITENIS Giedrius

59.68

Q

4

  GYURTA Daniel

59.76

Q

5

  SNYDERS Glenn

59.78

Q

6

  van der BURGH Cameron

59.79

Q

7

  DICKENS Scott

59.85

Q

8

  TATEISHI Ryo

59.86

Q

9

  JAMIESON Michael

59.89

Q

10

  HANSEN Brendan

59.93

Q

11

  SHANTEAU Eric

59.96

Q

12

  SCOZZOLI Fabio

59.99

Q

13

  BENSON Craig

1:00.04

Q

14

  RICKARD Brenton

1:00.07

Q

15

  SILVA Felipe

1:00.38

Q

16

  LIMA Felipe

1:00.57

Q

 

In the Women's 4x100m Relay, USA's Swimming team finished in 3:36.53 in Heat 1 but it was Team Australia who came in first place overall with a 3:36.54 race.

USA and Australia will be joined by the Netherlands, China, Japan, Denmark, Sweeden and Great Britain.

Both Sweden and Great Britain finished tied for 7th place with a 3:38.21 finish. 

More swimming action will come after 2 p.m. Stay tuned to sportsworldreport.com as we will release live streams of those Finals and Semis.

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