2024 U.S. PARA SWIMMING TRIALS
Reigning Paralympic champion Elizabeth Marks tied her personal world file from Tokyo within the 100 backstroke S6 with a time of 1:19.57 to kick off the U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials on Thursday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The 33-year-old Marks additionally captured the 5o butterfly S6 crown in 36.59 after blazing a 36.29 in prelims. She collected Paralympic bronze within the occasion just a few years in the past with an American file of 36.83. Marks served within the U.S. navy in Iraq and likewise set a world file of 1:28.13 within the 100 breast SB7 on the Rio 2016 Paralympics.
Former Yale swimmer Ali Truwit broke an American file within the 100 again S10 (1:08.98) solely a couple of yr after shedding her foot in a shark assault. It was her first time ever below the 1:09 barrier, dropping greater than half a second off her previous-best 1:09.50 from 2018.
“I positively have objectives, however I’m additionally taking the time to be pleased with the place I’m at, particularly after it solely being a yr for the reason that [shark] assault and amputation,” Truwit stated.
Two different American information fell courtesy of Zach Shattuck within the 50 fly S6 (34.00 in prelims, 34.03 within the remaining) and Trevor Lukacsko within the 100 breast SB14 (1:12.52). Morgan Ray narrowly missed his personal nationwide file from December by one hundredth of a second throughout his 100 breast SB6 victory in 1:22.32.
Jessica Lengthy, a 16-time Paralympic champion, gained two occasions on Thursday as she seeks qualification for her sixth Paralympics. The 32-year-old triumphed within the 100 breast SB7 (1:39.12) and 100 again S8 (1:22.73).
2023 world champion Christie Raleigh-Crossley picked up one other win in her signature 100 again S9 occasion (1:09.75).
Paralympic champion Gia Pergolini claimed the 100 again S13 title in 1:05.63, inside a second of her world-record 1:04.64 from Tokyo.
U.S. Paralympic Trials Winners on Evening 1
- Megan Gioffreda (ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke SB6)
- Jessica Lengthy (ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke SB7)
- Mei White (ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke SB8)
- Summer time Schmit (ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke SB9)
- Colleen Younger (ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke SB13)
- Morgan Ray (males’s 100-meter breaststroke SB6)
- David Gelfand (males’s 100-meter breaststroke SB8)
- Aiden Stivers (males’s 100-meter breaststroke SB9)
- David Abrahams (males’s 100-meter breaststroke SB13)
- Trevor Lukacsko (males’s 100-meter breaststroke SB14)
- Leanne Smith (ladies’s 50-meter breaststroke SB3)
- Elizabeth Marks (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S6)
- Jessica Lengthy (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S8)
- Christie Raleigh Crossley (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S9)
- Alexandra Truwit (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S10)
- McClain Hermes (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S11)
- Gia Pergolini (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S13)
- Piper Sadowski (ladies’s 100-meter backstroke S14)
- Noah Thomas (males’s 100-meter backstroke S6)
- Jack O’Neil (males’s 100-meter backstroke S8)
- Noah Busch (males’s 100-meter backstroke S9)
- Yaseen El-Demerdash (males’s 100-meter backstroke S10)
- Evan Wilkerson (males’s 100-meter backstroke S12)
- Lawrence Sapp (males’s 100-meter backstroke S14)
- Victoria Beelner (ladies’s 50-meter butterfly S5)
- Elizabeth Marks (ladies’s 50-meter butterfly S6)
- Mallory Weggemann (ladies’s 50-meter butterfly S7)
- Abbas Karimi (males’s 50-meter butterfly S5)
- Zach Shattuck (males’s 50-meter butterfly S6)
- Evan Austin (males’s 50-meter butterfly S7)
