2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Day 6 of 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials begins with one other fast prelims session. There are simply three occasions on the schedule for this morning: the ladies’s 200 backstroke, males’s 50 freestyle, and males’s 200 IM.
However that’s not all that’s on faucet. After the preliminaries of those three occasions occur, Catie DeLoof and Erika Connolly (neé Brown) will swim-off for the sixth and closing relay spot obtainable for the ladies’s 4×100 freestyle relay in Paris.
Within the 200 backstroke, the only real ladies’s occasion of the session, Regan Smith will set herself as much as tackle the 200 fly closing/200 backstroke semifinal soiled double tonight.
Smith is on fireplace this week and has been spectacular even in her morning swims, however possible received’t do greater than she has to this morning. Like the ladies’s 100 backstroke, this can be a stacked race and each Phoebe Bacon and Rhyan White–the ladies who beat Smith on this occasion in 2021–are again within the discipline. Specifically, Bacon had an below the radar sturdy 100 again swim, so she may very well be constructing in direction of one thing particular right here. The identical goes for Kennedy Noble, who’s 100 again exploits had been far more noticeable as she swam a 58, however the 200 backstroke is absolutely the place she shines.
Then it’ll be time for the boys’s splash and sprint. All 4 members of the newly named 4×100 freestyle relay for Paris might be within the discipline aiming so as to add one other occasion to their roster. After such massive swims within the 100/200 freestyle, Chris Guiliano may transfer up from his tenth place seed. Caeleb Dressel is searching for a person Olympic berth and Jack Alexy will purpose to again up his 2023 Worlds silver medal later within the rounds.
The final prelim occasion of the session is the boys’s 200 IM. Newly named Olympian Carson Foster will start his quest to comb the medleys after claiming the 400 IM on evening 2. Michael Andrew, a Tokyo Olympian on this occasion, has scratched out however there are a lot extra challengers for Foster to regulate. Shaine Casas is available in as the highest seed and also you by no means know what he’s acquired in retailer. Chase Kalisz will need to be a part of Foster within the IM double up, whereas swimmers like Destin Lasco, Maximus Williamson, and Trenton Julian are all nonetheless hoping to e book a ticket to Paris.
WOMEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE — PRELIMS
- World Document: 2:03.14 — Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2023
- American Document: 2:03.35 — Regan Smith, 2019
- U.S. Open Document: 2:03.80 — Regan Smith (USA), 2023
- World Junior Document: 2:19.64 – 2:03.35 — Regan Smith (USA), 2019
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Rhyan White, 2:05.73
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:10.39
Semifinal Qualifiers:
- Isabelle Stadden (CAL), 2:08.53
- Katie Grimes (SAND), 2:08.68
- Claire Curzan (TAC), 2:08.90
- Phoebe Bacon (UW), 2:09.14
- Regan Smith (TXLA), 2:09.30
- Rhyan White (WOLF), 2:09.66
- Teagan O’Dell (MVN), 2:09.76
- Lilla Bognar (TG), 2:09.94
- Kennedy Noble (WOLF), 2:09.99
- Krista Marlin (OSU), 2:10.26
- Caroline Bentz (NCAP), 2:10.47
- Audrey Derivaux (JW), 2:10.89
- Maggie Wanezek (EBSC), 2:10.95
- Catie Choate (FLOR), 2:11.18
- Sarah Rodrigues (JAC), 2:11.37
- Josephine Fuller (TENN), 2:11.42
The heats of the 200 backstroke acquired off to a quiet begin this morning. In warmth 4, Vera Conic swam a lifetime finest of two:12.09, that stood till the primary circle seeded warmth, the place Isabelle Stadden received in 2:08.53, bringing the highest time of the morning nicely below 2:10 for the primary time.
Stadden’s time is simply off her season-best (2:08.53) nevertheless it held up by means of the final two heats because the quickest time of the morning.
Within the subsequent warmth, Claire Curzan pulled forward of Josephine Fuller on the 100-meter mark, splitting 32.09 on the second 50 to take a half physique size lead. She continued to tempo the sector by means of the again half of the race, taking the warmth win in 2:08.90, good for third total heading into semifinals.
Katie Grimes held off a again half push from American report holder Regan Smith within the final warmth. Grimes took the win in 2:08.68, beginning to strategy her private finest 2:08.01. Smith pushed on the again of the race however nonetheless regarded clean, posting a 2:09.30 to maneuver by means of safely in fifth.
She’s sandwiched in between the Tokyo Olympians on this occasion. Phoebe Bacon sits 4th after a 2:09.14 morning swim, whereas Rhyan White completed 2nd to Stadden of their warmth with a 2:09.66.
General, it took a 2:11.42 to make it again, which is the quickest minimize off for a semifinal at this meet in historical past, in line with the in-arena announcer.
MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE — PRELIMS
- World Document: 20.91 — Cesar Cielo (BRA), 2009
- American Document: 21.04 — Caeleb Dressel, 2019 / 2021
- U.S. Open Document: 21.04 — Caeleb Dressel (USA), 2021
- World Junior Document: 21.75 — Michael Andrew (USA), 2017 / 2017
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Caeleb Dressel, 21.04
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 21.96
Semifinal Qualifiers:
- Michael Andrew (MASA)/Ryan Held (SUN), 21.70
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- Jack Alexy (CAL), 21.74
- Chris Guiliano (ND), 21.83
- August Lamb (CA-Y), 21.87
- Quintin McCarty (WOLF), 21.98
- Matt King (TFA)/Caeleb Dressel (GSC), 22.00
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- Jonny Kulow (SUN), 22.01
- Jack Dolan (SUN), 22.07
- David Curtiss (TAC), 21.18
- Payton Sorenson (CDOG), 22.19
- Matthew Jensen (CAL), 22.24
- Adam Chaney (FLOR), 22.26
- Drew Salls (WOLF)/Daniel Baltes (OSU), 22.28
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Six males broke 22 seconds throughout prelims of the boys’s 50 freestyle. Michael Andrew was the primary man to get below the mark, dropping a 21.70 within the first of the three circle-seeded heats. That knocks a hundredth off his earlier season-best.
Within the closing warmth, Ryan Held matched Andrew’s time, tying them because the quickest qualifiers. Held’s been as quick as 21.68 already this season.
Final evening’s 100 freestyle particular person qualifiers Jack Alexy and Chris Guiliano joined the highest pair sub-22 this morning. Alexy received his warmth in a season-best 21.74. In the meantime, Guiliano continues to roll at this meet. He took .13 seconds off his lifetime finest with a 21.83.
Virginia’s August Lamb additionally set a lifetime finest in prelims, crushing his earlier private finest 22.23, which he set again in 2021. There have been indicators that Lamb had one thing massive in retailer this week; on the NCAP Elite Invite a number of weeks in the past, he swam 22.31, his quickest time in three years.
Caeleb Dressel strikes by means of to the semifinal simply, clocking 22.00 to tie for seventh with Jonny Kulow.
Payton Sorenson, 31, had a giant swim out of warmth 2. In his solely his second meet because the 2021 Olympic Trials, he got here inside a tenth of his lifetime finest. Sorenson posted a 22.19, qualifying twelfth for the semifinals.
MEN’S 200 IM — PRELIMS
- World Document: 1:54.00 — Ryan Lochte (USA), 2011
- American Document: 1:54.00 — Ryan Lochte (USA), 2011
- U.S. Open Document: 1:54.56 — Ryan Lochte (USA), 2009
- World Junior Document: 1:56.99 – Hubert Kos (HUN), 2021
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Michael Andrew, 1:55.44
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:57.94
Semifinal Qualifiers:
- Carson Foster (RAYS), 1:58.38
- Maximus Williamson (LAC), 1:58.58
- Chase Kalisz (TXLA), 1:58.62
- Grant Home (SUN), 1:58.83
- Kieran Smith (RAC), 1:59.04
- Shane Casas (TXLA), 1:59.10
- Owen McDonald (ISC), 1:59.13
- Destin Lasco (CAL), 1:59.45
- Mitchell Schott (PRIN), 1:59.67
- Rex Maurer (TXLA), 1:59.71
- Arsenio Bustos (WOLF), 2:00.08
- Ryan Merani (KYA), 2:00.16
- Baylor Nelson (TAMU), 2:00.17
- Nate Germonprez (TXLA), 2:00.21
- Trenton Julian (MVN), 2:00.24
- Colin Geer (MICH), 2:00.34
Grant Home and Owen McDonald closed onerous within the penultimate warmth of the boys’s 200 IM, each attempting to catch as much as Carson Foster. They each out-split him on the freestyle leg; Foster appeared to be in cruise management however didn’t let both get forward of him, selecting up his tempo within the closing meters to make sure he acquired his hand on the wall first.
Foster touched in 1:58.38, which held up because the quickest time of the morning. Three males joined him below the 1:59 mark together with Maximus Williamson, who regarded far more himself this morning after a tough begin to the meet within the 200 freestyle. Williamson received the ultimate warmth in 1:58.58 and sits two-tenths behind Foster heading into semifinals.
Chase Kalisz regarded stable within the first circle-seeded warmth, holding off a fast shut from Deston Lasco (1:59.45) and swimming a 1:58.62.
High seed Shaine Casas moved by means of to the semifinals comfortably in sixth with a 1:59.10.
Neither Daniel Diehl nor Jay Litherland had been on deck for his or her heats. Each are racing the 200 backstroke closing later this night.
Girls’s 100 Freestyle — Swim-Off
- Erika Connolly (neé Brown), 53.76
- Catie DeLoof, 53.80
In her fifth 100 freestyle of the meet, Erika Connolly (neé Brown) acquired the job finished, beating Catie DeLoof within the swim-off for sixth place within the ladies’s 100 freestyle. As a reminder, the so long as there are sufficient roster spots, the fifth and sixth place finisher within the 100/200 freestyle is added to the Olympic roster. So with this win, Connolly has possible booked her ticket to Paris and made her second Olympic workforce.
After trailing on the flip, Connolly out-touched DeLoof by four-hundredths, 53.76 to 53.80. Each swimmers had been quicker than the 53.86 they swam within the precise closing.
Males’s 50 Freestyle — Swim Off
