Komisarz advances to 100 fly final

Rachel Komisarz is in contention for her third medal at the FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Shanghai after finishing seventh in the semifinals of the women’s 100-meter butterfly tonight.

Komisarz, a 2004 Olympian who trains with the Lakeside Seahawks in Louisville, posted a time of 58.43 seconds, nearly a second behind Australian Jessicah Schipper’s 57.52. She will swim in the final on Sunday night, the final day of the event, with a chance to add to her one silver and one bronze earned in relays.

Lexington, Ky., resident Elaine Breeden, a Trinity Christian Academy senior who trains with Wildcat Aquatics, helped the women’s 400-meter freestyle relay team post the second-best time in the heats but was left out of the relay for the final tonight as her teammates tied for fourth. The same happened in the 400-meter medley relay earlier in the competition.