Pan Pacific Swimming Games Special Edition
Apr 03, 2016
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“Missy Franklin definitely showed signs of having completely shaken off her back spasm issues with a sterling 1:56.04 during the B final
By Jason Marsteller
GOLD COAST, Australia, August 21. The first night of finals at the Pan Pacific Championships really had just two primary storylines – Katie Ledecky’s dominance and close calls everywhere else.
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Women’s 200 FreeShortly after Missy Franklin clipped the Pan Pacific record in the B final (see below), USA’s Katie Ledecky came along and dropped the time even more with a blazing 1:55.74. That swim lowered Franklin’s meet record of 1:56.04, and nearly beat Laure Manaudou’s 2007 Austra-lia All-Comers record of 1:55.52.
It’s not the same level of speed as Le-decky had at U.S. Nationals, where she moved to second in the world with a 1:55.16, but it was all she needed to easily win the Pan Pacs title.
Australia’s Bronte Barratt charged to silver with a 1:57.22, off her 13th-ranked season best of 1:56.61 from the Australian Nationals. USA’s Shan-non Vreeland took bronze in 1:57.38.
Australia’s Melanie Schlanger (1:57.39), Canada’s Samantha Ch-everton (1:58.96), Japan’s Chihiro Ig-arashi (1:59.08), China’s Zhang Sishi
(1:59.29) and Japan’s Yasuki Miyamo-to (1:59.94) also swam in the A final. Missy Franklin definitely showed signs of having completely shaken off her back spasm issues with a ster-ling 1:56.04 during the B final. That swim lowered the Pan Pacs record of 1:56.10 set by Allison Schmitt when she won the event in 2010. It’s also faster than Franklin’s season best of 1:56.40 and moved her to seventh in the world. Her time also would have placed her second in the A final if she had made it through this morning.
Australia’s Emma McKeon finished second in 1:57.21 with Hong Kong’s Camille Cheng taking third in 1:58.99.
Canada’s Alyson Ackman (1:59.25), New Zealand’s Samantha Luc-ie-Smith (2:00.75), Japan’s Aya Takano (2:00.90), Hong Kong’s Hang Yu Sze (2:02.65) and Can-ada’s Tabitha Baumann (2:03.25) also swam in the consolation heat.
Men’s 200 FreeAustralia’s Thomas Fraser-Holmes definitely defended his position as the top 200 freestyler in the world right now as he won the finale in 1:45.98. That’s not quite his world-lead-ing 1:45.08 from the Common-wealth Games, but it was more than enough to win the title tonight.
Japan’s Kosuke Hagino, one of the most well-rounded swimmers in the world, took second in 1:46.08. That’s off his seventh-ranked 1:45.89 from Japanese Nationals, but enough for silver. Australia’s Cameron McEvoy snared bronze with a 1:46.36. He’s
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been much faster with a third-ranked 1:45.46 from Aussie Nationals.
It was not a banner event for the Americans as Conor Dwyer (1:46.45) and defending champi-on Ryan Lochte (1:46.75) could not get themselves on the podium.
Brazil’s Nicolas Oliveira (1:46.98), New Zealand’s Matthew Stan-ley (1:47.33) and Japan’s Reo Sakata (1:47.76) also compet-ed for the championship title.
He couldn’t quite replicate his 16th-ranked 1:46.90 from U.S. Nationals, but USA’s Matt McLean had enough in the tank to capture the B final with a time of 1:47.16. Australia’s David McKeon touched second in the heat with a 1:47.48, while Japan’s Yuki Kobori tied Brazil’s Joao de Lucca for third with matching 1:47.98s.
New Zealand’s Dylan Dunlop-Bar-rett (1:49.30), New Zealand’s Steve Kent (1:49.71), Canada’s Cole-man Allen (1:51.30) and Chi-na’s Ma Tianchi (1:56.27) also put
up times in the consolation heat.
Women’s 100 BackShe’s been looking to score a big head-to-head victory against Missy Franklin, and she finally got it as Aus-tralia’s Emily Seebohm took advan-tage of a bit of a wounded Franklin to scorch the finale in 58.84. That’s an Australian All-Comers and Pan Pacs record. Her previous world-leading time from the Australian Nation-als of 58.92 had been the All-Com-ers record, while Seebohm also took down her meet record of 59.34 from this event in 2010. That’s a suc-cessful title defense for Seebohm.
Japan’s Sayaka Akase (1:00.65), Canada’s Dominique Bouchard (1:00.82), Canada’s Hilary Cald-well (1:00.99), USA’s Elizabeth Pelton (1:01.37) and Japan’s Miyu-ki Takemura (1:01.88) also com-peted in the championship heat.
Australia had a huge showing in the race as Belinda Hocking took second in 59.78 to tie her sev-enth-ranked time from Common-
wealth Games, while Franklin set-tled for bronze in 1:00.30. She just could not duplicate her third-ranked 59.38 from U.S. Nationals after battling back spasms the past day.
USA’s Kathleen Baker had a strong consolation heat as she won in 1:00.35. Canada’s Brooklyn Snodgrass placed second in 1:00.57 with Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros placing third in 1:00.82.
Men’s 100 BackIn a bit of an upset following Matt Grevers’ Australian All-Comers and Pan Pacific record of 52.91 during prelims this morning, Japan’s Ryosuke Irie managed to touch out the giant, 53.02 to 53.09 this evening. Irie has been much faster this year with a sec-ond-ranked 52.57 from Japanese Na-tionals, but did not need that speed to hold off a hard-charging Grevers.USA’s Ryan Murphy closed out the podium with a third-place time of 53.27, while Australia’s USA’s David Plummer took home the B final win in 53.19. That’s just off his fifth-ranked 53.12 from U.S. Na-tionals. Australia’s Josh Beaver took
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second in 54.05, while New Zealand’s Corey Main placed third in 54.70.
Brazil’s Fabio Santi (55.08), Canada’s Russell Wood (55.12), Japan’s Hayate Matsubara (55.57), South Africa’s Richard Ellis (55.68) and Venezue-la’s Albert Subirats (55.83) also put up times in the consolation heat. Mitch Larkin took fourth in 53.28.
Australia’s Ben Treffers (53.84), Japan’s Junya Koga (54.02), Brazil’s Thiago Pereira (54.38) and Brazil’s Guilhermo Guido (54.53) finished fifth through eighth to close out the finale field.
Women’s 800 FreeUSA’s Katie Ledecky, the world-re-cord holder with an 8:11.00 from June at The Woodlands Senior In-vite, nearly upended that time again as she raced to an 8:11.35 for the win tonight. She absolutely demol-ished the Australian All-Comers re-cord of 8:18.52 previously set by Kate Ziegler way back in 2007, and crushed Janet Evans’ 1989 meet re-cord of 8:16.22. Nearly every single time Ledecky sets foot in a pool, she’s rewriting history. Ledecky’s consis-tency is downright scary as she had the exact same final 50 in her world record as well as her swim tonight.
Meanwhile, New Zealand’s Lauren Boyle, who is still battling her own controversy as she awaits word wheth-er her short course world record in the 1500 free is ratified, took second in 8:18.47 to move to third in the world.
Canada’s Brittany MacLean finished third in 8:20.02 to better her fifth-ranked 8:20.91, while USA’s Becca Mann secured a spot on the 2015 Worlds roster to beating training partner Cierra Runge, 8:22.45 to 8:25.17 for fourth and fifth place.
Venezuela’s Andreina Pinto (8:30.66), USA’s Haley Anderson (8:30.87) and Australia’s Alanna Bowles (8:31.92) made up the rest of the top eight in the timed final event.
Women’s 200 FlyUSA’s Cammile Adams clipped Ja-pan’s Natsumi Hoshi at the wall, 2:06.61 to 2:06.68 in a huge vic-tory for the American. Hoshi is the world leader this year with a 2:05.98 to her credit from Japanese Nationals, and Adams was able to improve upon her 2:07.12 from U.S. Nationals to capture the title.
USA’s Katie McLaughin lowered her own World Junior Record of 2:08.02 from prelims with a third-place 2:07.08 to vault to eighth in the world rankings as well. The time also moved her back ahead of Maya DiRado for the second spot on the U.S. roster at the 2015 World Championships.Japan’s Miyu Nakano (2:08.54), Canada’s Audrey Lacroix (2:08.81), Canada’s Katerine Savard (2:09.42), Australia’s Madeline Groves (2:10.15) and Venezuela’s Andre-ina Pinto (2:13.28) also compet-ed in the championship finale.
Men’s 200 FlyJapan’s Daiya Seto topped the men’s 200-meter fly tonight in 1:54.92, just off his second-ranked season best of 1:54.70 from the Monte Carlo stop of the Mare Nostrum. Brazil’s Leon-ardo De Deus took second in 1:55.28 to move to sixth in the world, while Tyler Clary of the U.S. placed third in 1:55.42 for eighth in the rankings.
Tom Shields, ranked third in the world with a 1:55.09 from U.S. Na-tionals, drew a disqualification this morning. However, with no other American than Clary competing in the 200 fly, he’s a lock for the 2015 World roster alongside Clary now.
Men’s 1500 FreeIn what can only be described as a 15-round heavyweight champi-onship bout, USA’s Connor Jae-ger took the title off the defending champ as he edged Canada’s Ryan Cochrane in one of the most excit-ing 1500 frees of all time. Cochrane went out hard before Jaeger caught up around the 500-meter mark, then the two traded shots every 50 before Jaeger had just enough of a lead go-ing into the final 50 to withstand a 27.29 split by the defending champi-on. Jaeger finished with a 14:51.79 for the win, while Cochrane set-tled for silver with a 14:51.97.
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Michael Phelps earned his first international gold medal since returning from retirement.
Day Two
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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 21. Katie Ledecky continued to demon-strate why she’s the reigning Swimming World World Swimmer of the Year, while Michael Phelps earned his first international gold medal since returning from retirement.
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Michael Phelps earned his first international gold medal since returning from retirement.
Women’s 100 BreastIn an incredibly exciting finale, USA’s Jessica Hardy simply had too much in the tank to hold off a hard-charging Kanako Watanabe of Japan for gold, 1:06.74 to 1:06.78. Har-dy went out fast as she usually does with a 30.96, then withstood Wata-nabe’s 35.01 coming home. Both swimmers have been faster this year with Hardy actually securing a bit of an upset. Watanabe is ranked second in the world with a 1:05.88 from the Japan Open, while Hardy posted a 1:06.51 at U.S. Nationals.
That’s Team USA’s fourth win in a row in the event, with the fourth different winner as Amanda Beard (2002), Tara Kirk (2006) and Re-becca Soni (2010) are the previous U.S. winners dating back to Pennie Heyns’ 1999 win for South Africa.
USA’s Breeja Larson gave the U.S. a 1-3 in the event with a third-place 1:06.99, just off her 1:06.73 from U.S. Nationals.
Australia’s Lorna Tonks (1:07.41), Australia’s Taylor McKeown (1:07.55), Japan’s Satomi Suzuki (1:07.99), Canada’s Kierra Smith (1:08.49) and Canada’s Martha McCabe (1:08.96) wrapped up the rest of the championship heat.
It wasn’t the same type of speed she used to get here at U.S. Nationals with a sixth-ranked 1:06.51, but USA’s Micah Lawrence had plenty enough to torch the rest of the B final with a 1:07.16. Japan’s Rie Kaneto (1:08.03) and Australia’s Sally Hunt-er (1:08.52) placed well behind the American in the consolation heat.
Men’s 100 BreastJapan’s Yasuhiro Koseki clipped Brazil’s Felipe da Silva, 59.62 to 59.82, for gold in the finale. That’s a season best for both men as Ko-seki moved up to seventh in the world from a 59.91, while da Sil-va improved upon his own 59.91.
The win kept the title in Japanese hands after breaststroke legend Kosuke Kitajima won the title back in 2010.
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(1:00.18), USA’s Nic Fink (1:00.24), Canada’s Richard Funk (1:00.36), Australia’s Jake Packard (1:00.54) and Japan’s Naoya Tomita (1:01.08) com-pleted the A final with legal swims.
You do not, however, want to be Kev-in Cordes of the U.S. right now. In yet another high profile meet, he has drawn a breaststroke disqualifica-tion. A year after being part of a relay transition disqualification with Matt Grevers in the 400 medley relay at the 2013 World Championships, Cordes was disqualified tonight in the 100.
Cordes is now on the outside look-ing in for the 2015 Worlds ros-ter spot after that disqualification.
Cordes’ cap slipped off at the start, and his goggles filled up with wa-ter. He wound up trying to take them off during the turn as his in-ternational meet bad luck continued.
USA’s Cody Miller could not rep-licate his sub-1:00 swim from Na-tionals, where he posted a 59.91, but he still managed to take the B final win with a 1:00.76 in his first major international night swim. Brazil’s Joao Gomes took second in 1:00.99 with Japan’s Hiromasa Sakimoto finishing third in 1:01.54.
Brazil’s Tales Cerdeira (1:02.44), Canada’s Lyam Dias (1:03.03), Phil-ippines’ Joshua Hall (1:03.18), South Africa’s Jared Pike (1:03.20) and Hong Kong’s Ronald Tsui (1:03.52) also contested the consolation heat.
Women’s 100 FreeThe Campbell sisters dominated the finale as Cate (52.72) and Bronte (53.45) went 1-2 in the 100-me-ter free tonight. Cate was unable
to match her Australian All-Com-ers and Pan Pacs Championship mark of 52.62 from prelims, but had more than enough to chart a title-winning effort this evening.
That’s the first time since 1989 that an American has not won the ti-tle. In fact, 1989 is the only time someone from America has not won the 100 with Zhuang of China tak-ing that title in 55.68. This is the first time an Australian has won the event in the history of Pan Pacs.
Meanwhile, USA’s Simone Manuel edged teammate Missy Franklin at the wall for third, 53.71 to 53.87. Both have been faster this year with Manu-el (53.60) and Franklin (53.43) both turning in better times at Nationals.
Canada’s Chantal Van Lande-ghem (54.55), Canada’s Victo-ria Poon (54.82), Japan’s Miki Uchida (54.91) and Hong Kong’s Camille Cheng (55.09) also swam in the championship heat.
Australia’s Melanie Schlanger ran away with the B final win in 53.65, moving to eighth in the world rank-ings in the process. USA’s Abbey Weitzeil, the American high school sprint queen with national high school records in both the 50 and 100-yard events, stepped up in competition in a big way with a second-place 54.78.
Brazil’s Graciele Herrmann (54.94), Japan’s Misaki Yamaguchi (55.17), Japan’s Yayori Matsumoto (55.60), Canada’s Alyson Ackman (55.79), New Zealand’s Samantha Luc-ie-Smith (55.97) and New Zea-land’s Laura Quilter (56.00) also put up times in the B final.
In a bit of a stunner, Australia’s Cam-eron McEvoy crushed the field in the men’s 100-meter free for the win in 47.82. That performance lowered Nathan Adrian’s Pan Pacific Cham-pionship record of 48.05 from pre-lims, and delivered the sprint title back to Australia for the first time since Michael Klim (1997, 1999) and
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Ian Thorpe (2002) won the award three straight years for the Aussies.McEvoy was unable to duplicate his second-ranked season best of 47.65 from Australian Nationals, but he had more than enough to win tonight as USA’s Nathan Adrian was unable to put together a successful title defense as he wound up with silver in 48.30.
James Magnussen of Australia, who leads the world this year with a 47.59 from the Australian Aquat-ic Super Series, finished third in 48.36, while USA’s Michael Phelps just missed the podium in his first chance since returning from his 18-month retirement. Phelps wound up posting a fourth-place 48.51.
Brazil’s Nicolas Oliveira (48.69), Japan’s Katsumi Nakamura (48.96), Brazil’s Joao de Lucca (48.97) and Japan’s Shinri Shiou-ra (49.08) rounded out the A final.
Women’s 400 IMUSA’s Elizabeth Beisel became the first person to defend the wom-en’s 400-meter IM Pan Pacs title since Janet Evans won in 1987 and 1989 as Beisel popped a sterling 4:31.99 tonight for the win. The 2010 winner improved her winning time then by three seconds to move to fourth in the world this year. Only Ye Shiwen (4:30.84), Katinka Hosszu (4:31.03) and Hannah Miley (4:31.76) have been faster this year.
Beisel was swimming against the clock as teammate Maya DiRado took a distant second in 4:35.37. That performance still ranks the American seventh in the world, but demonstrates just how much of a gap there is to the upper echelon of the elite. Australia’s Keryn McMas-ter claimed the other medal on of-
fer with a bronze-winning 4:38.84.Japan’s Sakiko Shimizu (4:39.29), Japan’s Miho Takahashi (4:40.86), Canada’s Emily Overholt (4:41.64), Canada’s Erika Selten-reich-Hodgson (4:46.45) and China’s Chen Ziyi (4:57.46) also vied for the title in the A final.
USA’s Caitlin Leverenz kicked off the night with a 4:38.31 to win the B fi-nal of the event. That performance moved her up to 19th in the world rankings. Meanwhile, USA’s Becca Mann took second in the consolation heat with a 4:39.93, while Americans also picked up third and fourth in the heat with Cammile Adams (4:40.41) and Melanie Margalis (4:40.94) lead-ing the U.S. dominance in the B final.
Japan’s Rika Omoyo (4:42.94), Japan’s Miyu Otsuka (4:43.62) and Canada’s Sydney Pickrem (4:48.69) also competed in the heat.
Men’s 400 IMKosuke Hagino scored a huge vic-tory for Japanese individual medley
as he won in a time of 4:08.31 in the 400-meter IM at the Pan Pacif-ic Championships. That’s the first time Japan has ever won the inter-continental title, much less even take second in the event. Takahiro Mori was the lone medalist for Japan in the event with a bronze in 2002.
Hagino’s time came up a bit short of his own world-leading 4:07.88 from Japanese Nationals.
The U.S. demonstrated its depth in the event with Tyler Clary (4:09.03) and Chase Kalisz (4:09.62) tak-ing silver and bronze. Clary cleared his second-ranked season best of 4:09.51 from U.S. Nationals, while Kalisz became just the third swimmer under 4:10 this year.
Fraser-Holmes (4:10.55), Japan’s Daiya Seto (4:12.77), South Africa’s Michael Meyer (4:17.62), Australia’s Travis Mahoney (4:17.95) and Can-ada’s Luke Reilly (4:21.96) finished fourth through eighth this evening.
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Japan’s Takeharu Fujimori topped the B final with a time of 4:14.12, just off his 10th-ranked 4:13.80 from Japanese Nationals. USA’s Michael Weiss finished second in 4:14.85 to tie Josh Prenot for 17th in the world.
Japan’s Hiromasa Fujimori (4:19.33), Canada’s Mack Darragh (4:22.54), China’s Wei Haubo (4:27.07) and-Canada’s Will Brothers (4:28.77) also put up times in the consolation heat.
Women’s 800 Free Relay The early MVP of the meet thus far is easily USA’s Katie Ledecky. After a pair of powerful performances last night to win the 200 and 800-meter freestyle golds, including a near world record in the 800, Ledecky overcame a full second deficit to deliver Team USA the women’s 800-meter freestyle relay gold as the vaunted anchor leg.
Entering the water behind Australia, 5:50.84 to 5:52.04, Ledecky blitzed the water with a 1:54.36. It might not be the top 200 free split of the year with Sarah Sjostrom uncork-ing a 1:53 for Sweden over in Eu-rope, but it was more than enough for a USA victory from the team of Shannon Vreeland, Missy Frank-lin, Leah Smith and Ledecky as the foursome clocked a 7:46.40.
That effort smashed the previous Pan Pacs record of 7:51.21 set by the Americans in 2010. It also serves as the Australian All-Comers record, beating a U.S. mark of 7:50.09 from
the 2007 World Championships.
Australia’s Bronte Barratt, Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie and Mela-nie Schlanger could not overcome Le-decky’s incredible speed, and settled for silver with a 7:47.47, while Can-ada’s Brittany MacLean, Samantha Cheverton, Alyson Ackman and Em-ily Overholt took bronze in 7:58.03.
Japan (8:00.83), New Zealand (8:04.58) and Hong Kong (8:23.53) also swam in the championship heat.
Men’s 800 Free RelayFor the second straight relay tonight, it took a special effort by an Amer-ican anchor to deliver Team USA the gold. After Katie Ledecky made up more than a second to win the 800 free relay, Matt McLean gave training partner Michael Phelps his first international gold since return-ing from his 18-month retirement.
Entering the water at the same time as Takeshi Matsuda of Japan, Mc-Lean held off Matsuda down the stretch with a 1:46.44 anchor against Matsuda’s 1:46.58 as the U.S. won in 7:05.17. The U.S. foursome was made up of 3/4 North Bal-timore Aquatic Club swimmers with Conor Dwyer, Phelps, Ryan Lochte and McLean taking the ti-tle for the Red, White and Blue.
Japan, meanwhile, took second in 7:05.30 with the team of Kosuke Hagino, Reo Sakata, Yuki Kob-ori and Matsuda. Australia’s Da-vid McKeon, Cameron McEvoy, Mack Horton and Thomas Fras-er-Holmes finished third in 7:08.55. New Zealand (7:13.83) and Hong Kong (7:41.74) also competed.
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The U.S. had no answer for a pair of sizzling 47’s from James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy
Day ThreeBy Jason Marsteller
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Women’s 100 FlyIt was certainly a close call as Alicia Coutts returned the 100 fly title back to the Australians for the fourth time, joining Susie O’Neill and Jessicah Schipper as Aussie victors in the event. Coutts raced her way to a 57.64 to 57.76 win against China’s Lu Ying in the finale. Coutts has been faster this year with a 57.60 to rank eighth in the world, while Lu moved up to 12th in the event with her swim.
USA’s Kendyl Stewart raced her way onto the podium, edging Australia’s Emma McKeon, 57.82 to 57.85, for the bronze medal. That’s a sea-son best for Stewart, lower than her 57.98 from Nationals, while McK-eon came up short of her 57.66 from the Commonwealth Games.
Canada’s Katerine Savard (57.95), USA’s Claire Donahue (58.31), Bra-zil’s Etiene Medeiros (58.67) and Canada’s Audrey Lacroix (58.82) also vied for the title in the finale.
It wasn’t the same speed as her 16th-ranked 58.14 from U.S. Nationals, but USA’s Felicia Lee still managed to trump the rest of the consolation heat by a pretty wide margin with a 58.37.
Australia’s Madeline Groves took second in 58.88, while Japan’s Nat-sumi Hoshi claimed third in 59.20.
Brazil’s Daynara de Paula (59.66), Japan’s Miki Uchida (59.68), Japan’s Miyu Nakano (59.75), New Zea-land’s Samantha Lee (1:00.44) and South Africa’s Vanessa Mohr (1:01.9) put up the rest of the B final swims.
Men’s 100 FlyA day after his first international gold medal since his return came by way of the 800 free relay, the Greatest of All Time Michael Phelps also ascended to the top of the podium individually on the international stage with a sizzling 51.29 in the finale. He did so against longtime rival Ryan Lochte, who
took silver for the U.S. with a 51.67.
Phelps still holds the top time in the world with a 51.17 from Nationals, but that time came during prelims. Tonight, he finally put together a second swim worthy of victory as his comeback from an 18-month retire-ment continues. Lochte, meanwhile, could not clear his fifth-ranked 51.55 from prelims to secure a spot on the 2015 World Roster in this event as Tom Shields’ 51.29 from U.S. Na-tionals held up to tonight’s scrutiny to keep him on the Kazan roster. With that outcome, Lochte now has just two individual events for 2015 Worlds in the 200 free and 200 IM.
Japan’s Hirofumi Ikebata clinched bronze in 52.50, while Australia’s Tom-maso D’Orsogna took fourth in 52.67.
Brazil’s Thiago Pereira (52.71), Aus-tralia’s Chris Wright (52.75), Ja pan’s Kenta Hirai (52.84) round-
GOLD COAST, Australia, August 22. KATIE Ledecky followed through with a world record in the women’s 400-meter freestyle at the Pan Pacific Championships, while the rest of the night had some incredibly dramatic occurrences as well. It included a big win for Michael Phelps, as well as an Aussie relay sweep.
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er in the 400-800-1500 free, that’s a pretty strong argument, but her consistency and ability to break a world record at nearly any meet she decides to do it is just remarkable.
USA’s Cierra Runge took silver in 4:04.55, while New Zealand’s Lau-ren Boyle placed third in 4:05.33.
Canada’s Brittany MacLean (4:05.91), Venezuela’s Andreina Pinto (4:07.51), Australia’s Bron-te Barratt (4:10.40), Australia’s Al-anna Bowles (4:10.58) and Cana-da’s Samantha Cheverton (4:12.25) also swam in the historic heat.
USA’s Leah Smith opened up the night with a dominant effort in the consolation heat. She smashed the rest of the field with a 4:06.91, a bit off her season best of 4:06.28 from U.S. Nationals that ranked her 15th coming into the meet.
Australia’s Jessica Ashwood finished second in 4:10.14, while Japan’s Chi-hiro Igarashi took third in 4:13.72.
The next pack came in with New Zealand’s Samantha Lucie-Smith (4:15.19), New Zealand’s emma Robinson (4:15.92), Japan’s Aya Takano (4:16.07) and Japan’s Yasu-ko Miyamoto (4:16.38) all jockey-ing for position. Canada’s Tabitha Baumann checked in with a 4:23.47 for the final spot in the heat.
Men’s 400 freeKorea’s Tae Hwan Park became the first man to ever win this particular Pan Pacs title three straight times as he put up a 3:43.15 in the fina-le. Not only is Park the first to win the title three straight times with ti-tles in 2006 and 2010, he’s also the
first three-time winner period. He broke a tie with Ian Thorpe (1999, 2002) with his victory tonight. Park also vaulted to the top of the world with his time, eclipsing the 3:43.46 set by Ryan Cochrane of Cana-da at the Commonwealth Games.
Japan’s Kosuke Hagino, who won the 400 IM earlier this week, took silver in the 400 free with a 3:44.56. That’s off his third-ranked 3:43.90 from Japanese Nationals, but still enough for second as USA’s Con-nor Jaeger picked up bronze in 3:45.31. That’s a bit better for Jae-ger than his ninth-ranked 3:45.34 from the Bulldog Grand Slam.
Cochrane was unable to repli-cate his Commonwealth Games speed as he took fourth in 3:45.99.
Australia’s Mack Horton (3:46.19), Australia’s David McKeon (3:46.40), Japan’s Yuki Kobori (3:49.05) and USA’s Michael McBroom (3:52.77) rounded out the rest of the top eight.
In an exciting battle before the tele-vision broadcast kicked on with the big lights, Australia’s Jordan Harri-son clipped USA’s Matt McLean in the middle distance consolation heat, 3:47.45 to 3:47.70. No one else came close in the B final as those two finished a few seconds ahead of New Zealand’s Matt Stanley (3:50.75).
New Zealand’s Ewan Jack-son (3:52.32), China’s Qiu Ziao (3:52.97), Japan’s Kohei Yamamo-to (3:53.15), New Zealand’s Dylan Dunlop-Barrett (3:53.96) and Can-ada’s Will Brothers (3:58.25) also competed in the consolation heat.
ed out the championship heat.
It wasn’t the same speed as his fourth-ranked 51.49 from U.S. Nationals, but USA’s Tim Phillips certainly had plenty in the tank in the B fi-nal with a 51.52. He blasted the rest of the field by a wide margin, which make sense considering he finished third this morning but was bumped to the consolation heat.
Australia’s Jayden Hadler (53.07) and Japan’s Masato Sakai (53.38) led the way for the rest of the pack, while Canada’s Coleman Al-len (53.89) and China’s Shi Yang (53.98) also cleared 54 seconds.
Hong Kong’s Geoff Cheah (54.11), Canada’s Gamal Assaad (54.78) and Canada’s Mack Darragh (54.86) also put up times in the consolation heat.
Women’s 400 FreeWhile USA’s Katie Ledecky went out like a banshee at U.S. Nationals en route to breaking Federica Pellegri-ni’s world record of 3:59.15 with her 3:58.86 from Irvine, tonight Ledecky took her record-breaking swim just a bit differently. Actually training the world-record pace through the 300, Ledecky came roaring home in 30.33, 29.30 to nearly take the world record under 3:58 with a ri-diculously fast 3:58.37 this evening.
Not only did that swim break Ledecky’s world record, it also smashed the Aus-tralian All-Comers record of 4:02.61 set by Laure Manaudou back in 2007, and lowered Ledecky’s Pan Pacs mark of 4:03.09 from this morning.
There’s little doubt that Ledecky is the best distance freestyler of all time. As the world-record hold
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Women’s 200 BackThe 200 back looked similar to the 100 back, with a pair of Auss-ies taking the top of the podium as world-record holder Missy Franklin just has not looked the same since she had back spasms shortly prior to the meet and has been struggling just to swim, much less win here in Australia.
Belinda Hocking won the finale in 2:07.49, just ahead of teammate Em-ily Seebohm’s second-place 2:07.61 as both undercut the Pan Pacific Championships record of 2:07.83 set by Elizabeth Beisel when she won in 2010. Hocking has been fast-er with a 2:06.40 from the NSW State Championships, while See-bohm broke 2:08 for the first time this year to move to second in the world. In fact, only Hocking and Seebohm have seen a 2:07 this year.
Demonstrating just how hard of a time Franklin is having this week, she failed to even make the podium in her world-record event as Beisel beat her for third, 2:08.33 to 2:08.82. Beisel moved to fifth in the world with her swim, while Franklin was unable to duplicate her 2:08.38 from Nationals.
Canada’s Hilary Caldwell (2:09.02), Canada’s Dominique Bouchard (2:09.59), Japan’s Sayaka Akase (2:09.65) and Japan’s Marie Kamimu-ra (2:12.69) also swam in the finale.
USA’s Elizabeth Pelton dropped a 2:09.36 to win the B final to-night. That’s better than her 17th-ranked 2:09.73 from the Santa Clara stop of the Arena Grand Prix, and moved her into the top 15 in the world. Canada’s Brooklynn Sno-dgrass, meanwhile, took second in 2:09.76 as she’s in the top 20 now.
Canada’s Genevieve Cantin (2:10.76), Japan’s Shiho Sakai (2:12.36), China’s Zhao Ying (2:17.65), Hong Kong’s Claudia Lau (2:18.12), South Africa’s Beatrix Malan (2:19.42) and South Africa’s Marce Loubser (2:19.63) also competed in the consolation heat.
Men’s 200 BackThe U.S. has never lost the men’s 200-meter backstroke at the Pan Pacific Championships, and Tyler Clary made sure it didn’t happen on his watch as he held off Japan’s Ryosuke Irie, 1:54.91 to 1:55.14, for the win. Neither time is the best for either swimmer this year, but tonight it was just about get-ting your hand on the wall first.
Clary came up just off his third-ranked 1:54.73 from U.S. Nationals, while Irie was not able to repeat his world-leading 1:53.91 from Japa-nese Nationals as he settled for silver.
The surprise on the podium went to Mitch Larkin, who took third in 1:55.27. That’s just off his 1:55.26 from the Australian Nationals, but the podium initially seemed to favor Japan’s Kosuke Hagino being in the top three. Hagino ranks second in the world with a 1:54.23 from Jap-anese Nationals, but faded badly to-night as he took eighth in 1:59.86. USA’s Ryan Murphy (1:56.17), Aus-
tralia’s Josh Beaver (1:57.70), Brazil’s Leonardo de Deus (1:57.78) and New Zealand’s Corey Main (1:59.63) were also part of the top eight.
Japan’s Hayate Matsubara cruised to victory in the B final with a 1:57.94, off his 16th-ranked 1:57.13 from the Japan Open earlier this year. No one else came within two seconds of the Japanese swimmer.
Women’s 400 Free RelayAfter the Australians set the world re-cord with a 3:30.98 at the Common-wealth Games earlier this month, about the only entity more favored to win any specific event this week was Katie Ledecky in anything she de-cided to swim, and the Aussies came through with flying colors tonight.
The foursome of Cate Campbell, Brit-tany Elmslie, Melanie Schlanger and Bronte Campbell could not duplicate the 3:30 speed from Glasgow, but they still managed a Pan Pacs record time of 3:32.46. That smoked the 3:35.11 set by the U.S. back in 2010.
Meanwhile, Simone Manuel, Mis-sy Franklin, Abbey Weitzeil and Shannon Vreeland raced to silver in 3:34.23 with a team much different than the veteran-laden team that won the 2010 title that featured Natalie Coughlin, Jessica Hardy, Amanda Weir and Dana Vollmer. Team USA’s sprint group has some seasoning to do to return to the type of form the Red, White and Blue is used to seeing.
Japan’s Miki Uchida, Misaki Yamagu-chi, Yasuko Miyamoto and Yayoi Mat-sumoto snatched bronze in 3:39.06.
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Kong (3:50.47) also fielded teams.
Men’s 400 Free RelayShortly after finding the happiness he so desires at the top of the in-dividual podium, Michael Phelps came back down to earth a bit as the Australian completed a 400 free relay sweep tonight when the men followed the women with a victory.Although it was closer than the wom-en’s race, and Phelps got the American men off to the right start with a 48.88 leadoff, the U.S. had no answer for a pair of sizzling 47s from James Mag-nussen and Cameron McEvoy. In the end, Tommaso D’Orsogna, Mag-nussen, Matthew Abood and McEv-oy turned in a 3:12.80 to win gold in front of a highly-partisan crowd.
The big-name American foursome of Phelps, Nathan Adrian, Anthony Er-vin and Ryan Lochte did enough to take silver, while Brazil’s Joao de Luc-ca, Marcelo Chierighini, Bruno Fra-tus and Nicolas Oliveira showed signs of being a world title contender with a third-place time of 3:13.59 that did not include Cesar Cielo as part of this trip. Once Cielo is back to firing on all cylinders, Brazil could be in the mix for just about any title on the planet.
Japan (3:14.93), Canada (3:19.26), Hong Kong (3:24.47) and South Africa (3:24.70) claimed the other finishes in the finale.
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Day Four
Ledecky is moving 30 seconds ahead of the entire world with a ridiculously fast 15:28.36
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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 24. The 2014 edition of the Pan Pacific Championships came to a close in the pool with Katie Ledecky turning in yet another stunning world record, this time with a six-second drop in the 1500 free.
Men’s 800 FreeCanada’s Ryan Cochrane defend-ed his 2010 title with a 7:45.39 to-night. That swim nearly challenged Grant Hackett’s sizzling 7:44.78 meet record from the 2002 edition, and moved Cochrane firmly into third in the world this year. Only Italy’s dynamic duo of Gabriele Det-ti (7:42.74) and Gregorio Paltrinieri (7:43.01) have been faster this year.
Australia’s Mack Horton turned in a silver-winning time of 7:47.73 as he moved to fourth in the world, while USA’s Connor Jaeger raced to bronze in 7:47.75 for fifth in the world. Aus-tralia’s Jordan Harrison took fourth, just off the podium, with a 7:48.20 for sixth in the rankings as Pal Jo-ensen of the Faroe Islands dropped from third to seventh with his 7:48.49 from the European Championships.
Notably, this morning’s tough luck swimmer Shogo Takeda of Japan,
who swam all by himself in the first heat of the timed final event, moved up two spots to seventh overall with his 8:01.53. Not only did Takeda have to swim by himself this morn-ing, a technical glitch in the timing system forced officials to stop him after he’d already swum 125 me-ters to reschedule him until the end of prelims. That’s a gutsy perfor-mance for the Japanese swimmer.
Women’s 1500 FreeKatie Ledecky has entered that Michael Phelps realm, where she just toys with races to find different ways to break world records, and she did just that with a mind-bending 15:28.36 this evening in the women’s metric mile.
When all is said and done, Ledecky keeps her focus on the most basic thing in swimming – setting a new lifetime best. That’s exactly how Phelps kept his train going through-
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out his epic Olympic runs – eye on the prize, set a lifetime best. It just so happens that Ledecky is on that Phelps level now where every sin-gle lifetime best is a world record.
The big difference though, is that Ledecky is doing it in events that have not had all that much progres-sion compared to some of the swims Phelps took part in. Where Phelps would potentially cut half-a-second off a 200, Ledecky is moving 30 sec-onds ahead of the entire world with a ridiculously fast 15:28.36. That’s a nearly six-second drop from the world record she set at The Woodlands Se-nior Invitation earlier this summer, as she nearly took down the 400, 800 and 1500 freestyle world records in a single meet here in the Gold Coast.
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Women’s 200 IMUSA’s Maya DiRado knocked off Australia’s Alicia Coutts, 2:09.93 to 2:10.25, for the title this evening. That swim tied Emily Seebohm’s meet record from 2010 and moved DiRado up to fourth in the world this year. Only Katinka Hosszu (2:08.11), Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (2:08.21) and Coutts (2:08.89) have been faster. USA’s Caitlin Leverenz captured bronze with a 2:10.67, equaling her bronze from 2010 but with a faster time (2:11.21).
Japan’s Kanako Watanabe (2:11.16), Japan’s Rika Omoyo (2:12.39), China’s Zhou Min (2:12.41), Aus-tralia’s Emily Seebohm (2:13.25) and Canada’s Erika Seltenre-ich-Hodgson (2:13.31) also put up times in the championship heat.
Seebohm, the defending champi-on, just never got on track in the IM this week after putting up some amazing times in the backstroke.
USA’s Melanie Margalis had to fol-low Katie Ledecky’s epic world re-cord swim, and she did a good job of it with a 2:11.42 to win the B final. Japan’s Miho Teramura fin-ished second in 2:12.75 with China’s Zhang Sishi earning third in 2:12.92.
Australia’s Keryn McMaster (2:14.53), Canada’s Sydney Pickrem (2:15.42), Canada’s Marni Older-shaw (2:15.90), China’s Zhang Jiaqi (2:19.14) and South Africa’s Beat-rix Malan (2:24.03) also competed.
Men’s 200 IMJapan’s Kosuke Hagino had just enough in the tank to hold off a hard-charging Michael Phelps for victory in the shorter distance 200-meter IM,
1:56.02 to 1:56.04. Hagino would have liked to have had his world-lead-ing 1:55.38 from Japanese Nationals in play here to make it less of a battle, but he still managed to stop the clock just .02 seconds ahead of the Greatest of All Time. Phelps lowered his third-ranked season best of 1:56.55 from U.S. Nationals, but could not keep pace with Ryan Lochte, as Lochte tied Hagino’s time with his epic B final swim just minutes earlier (see below).
Japan’s Daiya Seto finished third in 1:57.72, half-a-second back of his fourth-ranked 1:57.32 from the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum, while Brazil’s Thia-go Pereira took fourth in 1:57.83.
USA’s Tyler Clary finished fifth in 1:58.79, and along with Lochte’s amazing swim in the consolation heat, put Phelps and Lochte onto the 2015 Worlds roster for the U.S. in this event.
Australia’s Travis Mahoney (1:59.79), New Zealand’s Mitch Donald-son (2:01.34) and South Afri-ca’s Michael Meyer (2:01.78) also competed in the A final.
Knowing his spot on the 2015 World Championship roster was in jeopar-dy after missing the A final, USA’s Ryan Lochte didn’t mess around as he smashed the consolation heat with a 1:56.02. That bettered his sec-
ond-ranked season best of 1:56.50 from Nationals by half-a-second, and he had to do so while basically swim-ming by himself, and would have tied him with Hagino for the title.
Japan’s Takeharu Fujimori (2:01.05) and Hiromasa Fujimori (2:01.38) placed well behind for second and third in the consolation heat.
Women’s 50 FreeAustralia’s Cate Campbell tied the textile best of 23.96 set by Fran Hal-sall at the Commonwealth Games earlier this month with a 23.96 of her own tonight. The time downed her Pan Pacs record of 24.35 from this morning, and also edged Libby Trickett’s Australian record of 23.97 from 2008 in the process. Notably, Halsall’s time also stood as the Com-monwealth record, putting Camp-bell in a tie for that mark as well as she continues her remarkable ascen-dance to the top of the sprint heap.
Campbell is the first swimmer to sweep the 50, 100 frees on the women’s side since Jenny Thomp-son did it in 2002 with a 25.13 in the 50 and a 54.89 in the 100.
Campbell’s sister Bronte took sec-ond among a pack of swimmers that touched well behind the leader as Bronte posted a 24.56. Canada’s Chantal Van Landeghem won bronze in 24.69 to beat Victoria Poon’s Ca-nadian record of 24.75 from 2009.
USA’s Simone Manuel (24.70), Bra-zil’s Graciele Herrmann (24.78), Brazil’s Etiene Medeiros (25.07), USA’s Ivy Martin (25.18) and Can-ada’s Michelle Williams (25.64) also took part in the epic finale.Australia’s Melanie Schlanger had just
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enough to take down USA’s Madeline Locus in the B final, 25.23 to 25.24, in what proved to be an entertaining consolation heat. Brazil’s Alessandra Marchioro finished third in 25.37 with Japan’s Miki Uchida (25.56) and Canada’s Victoria Poon (25.69) also among the top finishers in the heat.
Men’s 50 FreeBrazil’s Bruno Fratus slayed some major dragons to take home the Pan Pacific gold medal. Bettering his sec-ond-ranked season best of 21.45 with a 21.44, Fratus became the first Bra-zilian ever to win the event. In fact, he’s just the second non-American to win since this meet began in 1985. He joins South Africa’s Mark Dede-kind, who won in 1997 with a 22.42.
Notably, Fratus’ time beat Na-than Adrian’s meet record of 21.55 from 2010 and moved him just a bit closer to Cesar Cie-lo’s world-leading time of 21.39 from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet.
Anthony Ervin, meanwhile, showed that he still has a lot left in his 33-year-old body with a silver-winning 21.73, while pre-meet favorite Nathan Adrian settled for bronze in 21.80.
Australia’s Cameron McEvoy (22.07), Japan’s Shinri Sioura (22.11), Aus-tralia’s Matt Abood (22.18), Ja-pan’s Kastumi Nakamura (22.42) and Brazil’s Marcelo Chierighini (22.46) rounded out the top eight.
USA’s Jimmy Feigen thumped the consolation heat with a 22.38, while Canada’s Luke Peddie took a distant second in 22.68. Ja-pan’s Kenta Ito rounded out the top three in 22.74 in the heat.
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Canada’s Yuri Kisil (22.78), Can-ada’s Kyle Troskot (22.94), Hong Kong’s Geoff Cheah (22.99), South Africa’s Doug Erasmus (23.05) and Brazil’s Nicholas Santos (23.35) also put up times in the B final.
Women’s 200 BreastThe Japanese went 1-2 in the final, and it wasn’t even close. Kanako Watanabe (2:21.41) and Rie Kan-eto (2:21.90) put their stamp on the race with a pair of 2:21s. They both have been faster this year with Watanabe (2:21.09) and Kane-to (2:21.58) ranking second and third behind Rikke Moeller Ped-ersen’s world-leading 2:19.61, but they didn’t need that speed tonight.
Australia’s Taylor McKeown placed third in 2:22.89, off her fourth-ranked 2:22.10 from Auss-ie Nationals, while Canada’s Kierra Smith finished fourth in 2:23.32.
USA’s Micah Lawrence (2:24.60), USA’s Breeja Larson (2:24.90), Australia’s Sally Hunter (2:25.25) and Canada’s Martha McCabe (2:25.62) claimed the other fin-ishes in the championship heat.
With the meet winding down, it was obvious no one decided to swim in the B final unless they had to. Mio Motegi won the consola-tion heat in 2:27.20 with teammate Satomi Suzuki taking second in 2:30.87. South Africa’s Jonker Fran-ko (2:33.87) and China’s Liu Xiaoyu (2:35.14) also swam in the event.
Men’s 200 BreastJapan’s Yasuhiro Koseki nearly put up a Pan Pacific Championship re-cord as he won the finale in 2:08.57. That’s just off Kosuke Kitajima’s
2010 mark of 2:08.36, and fell short of Koseki’s fifth-ranked 2:08.34 from the Japan Open earlier this year.
USA’s Nic Fink powered his way to a 2:08.94 for silver, moving to 10th in the world rankings, while Japan’s
Kazuki Kohinata finished third for bronze with a time of 2:10.14.
USA’s Josh Prenot, initially set to swim in the B final before Kevin Cordes scratched to focus on the medley relay, took fourth in 2:11.05.
Brazil’s Tales Cerdeira (2:11.49), Canada’s Richard Funk (2:13.75), Brazil’s Simon Thiago (2:13.89) and Canada’s Lyam Dias (2:16.19) comprised the rest of the A final.
Women’s 400 Medely RelayIn a bit of a stunner, as the Ameri-can women are not used to losing the 400 medley relay internationally, the Australians lowered the Australian All-Comers record with a 3:55.49 this evening, and it wasn’t even close. Emily Seebohm (59.44), Lorna Tonks (1:07.44), Alicia Coutts (56.76) and Cate Campbell (51.85) beat the U.S. on nearly every single leg. In fact, the only swimmer to beat their Aussie counterpart for the women was Jessi-ca Hardy. The winning time tonight edged the previous All-Comers re-cord of 3:55.74 set by a 2007 team with the likes of Leisel Jones, Jessicah Schipper and Libby Lenton (Trickett)
Team USA’s Missy Franklin (59.99), Hardy (1:06.35), Kendyl Stewart (57.62) and Simone Manuel (53.45) took silver in 3:57.41, while Canada’s Brooklynn Snodgrass (1:00.48), Ki-
erra Smith (1:08.09), Katerine Savard (57.46) and Chantal Van Landeghem (53.82) snared bronze in 3:59.85.
Men’s 400 Medely RelayShortly after a disappointing outcome for the Americans in the women’s 400 medley relay, the U.S. men ended the meet on a high note for the Red, White and Blue as Matt Grevers (53.10), Kevin Cordes (58.64), Michael Phelps (50.60) and Nathan Adrian (47.60) crushed the field with a 3:29.94.
That effort blasted the Pan Pacific record of 3:31.79 set in 2006 by the U.S. four-some of Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Han-sen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak. It also beat the Australian All-Comers mark of 3:31.91 set by Japan back in 2009.
This swim had to exorcise some de-mons for Cordes. His disqualification yips really took center stage in Barcelo-na a year ago when a relay transition be-tween he and Grevers was just .01 fast and caused the U.S. to lose a gold-med-al performance. Earlier this week, Cordes lost out on the 100 breaststroke after being disqualified when he broke his stroke to recover his goggles that had just filled up with water on an er-rant turn. Being part of a winning relay, with a seriously amazing breaststroke split has to be cathartic for the man.
Japan’s Ryosuke Irie (52.99), Yasuhi-ro Koseki (59.52), Hirofumi Ikeba-ta (51.81) and Katsumi Nakamura (47.76) turned in a second-place time of 3:32.08, while the hosts Mitch Lar-kin (53.46), Jake Packard (1:00.02), Tommaso D’Orsogna (52.34) and Cameron McEvoy (47.63) closed out the podium with a third-place 3:33.45.
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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 25. HERE at the Pan Pacs, the winners got the gold medals. The run-ner-ups got the silvers. And the third-placed swimmers received bronze. But who won the real prizes? Who won the “2014 PAN PAC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS SWIMMER AWARDS”?
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And the winner is: Ryan Lochte. Lochte is such an amazing swimmer but he missed out on a place in the men’s 200 IM final at this year’s Pan Pacs because he was a little too focused on where Michael Phelps was in their heat swim. Lochte’s time in the B FINAL would have got him the gold medal in the A FINAL. If Lochte just focuses on swimming his own race, he’ll be even more brilliant than he is already. Lesson: “Swim your own race”
And the winner is: Katie Ledecky. OK – she’s fast. And sure, her endurance is amazing. But her pacing skills are extraordinary. During her astonishing 1500-metre world record, her 50 metre splits varied only slightly. Her ability to manage her speed and maintain an even pace throughout her race is something very, VERY special. You’d be tempted to x-ray Katie to make sure there wasn’t some sort of machine inside her body which helps her to maintain such a relentless pace throughout her races, but the reality is she’s very human – a human who’s trained very, very hard at mastering accurate race pacing. Lesson: “Train the way you want to race”
And the winner is: Australia’s Cate Campbell. The secret to swimming fast 50s is having a great start. And the secret to a great start is to take off with a great dive from the blocks, hold a perfect streamline, kick with fast, powerful kicks underwater, execute a strong and deliberate kick into your breakout stroke and then “explode” with your first few strokes on the surface. Campbell does all these skills magnificently but what makes her so special is the smooth, seamless way she combines all of these swimming skills into one single, continuous, uninterrupted, flowing motion. Lesson: “Get to top speed faster than your opposition by mastering all the skills from blocks to breakout”
And the winner is – you guessed it – Michael Phelps. Reportedly only swimming a fraction of the training volume that he’s done in the past, Phelps again proved that he’s got it all: technique, skills, power, speed, endurance and guts. Even “Ironman” Hagino, who defeated Phelps in the final of the 200 IM said in his post race interview (through an interpreter) “I only beat Michael because he’s not in his best shape.” If Phelps is this fast when he’s “out of shape,” just imagine what is he capable of at the 2015 FINA World Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games when he is back in peak form? A sub-49-second 100 fly? Or what about the first man to swim under 1:54 for the 200 IM? One thing’s for certain: Michael’s future will be faster. Lesson: “There are no limits to what you can achieve”
The “I’ve Got to Stop Looking Around to See Where Michael Is” Award
The “I Think She Might Be a Robot” Award
The “Smoother than Olive Oil on a Glass Table” Award
The “Look Out World: I’m Back” Award
Commentary by Wayne Goldsmith | Photos Courtesy: Delly Carr
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