59TH ANNUAL MEL ZAJAC JR. INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET
Canadian Olympic medal hopefuls Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun had their last tune-ups on the Mel Zajac Jr. Worldwide Meet on Sunday, just some weeks earlier than the Summer season Video games begin subsequent month in Paris.
Liendo triumphed within the 100 free with a time of 48.62, a few second off his personal-best 47.55 that he equaled at Canadian Olympic Trials final month. The 21-year-old NCAA champion ranks eighth this season within the 100 free.
Kharun, a rising sophomore at Arizona State, cruised to victory within the males’s 200 fly by greater than six seconds with a successful time of 1:55.13. The 19-year-old Sandpipers of Nevada product posted a 1:54.41 at Canadian Olympic Trials final month to maneuver as much as sixth on this planet this season. Kharun has been a quick as 1:53.82 eventually summer season’s World Championships, the place he tied for 4th place.
The boys’s 100 again turned out to be an thrilling showdown between Javier Acevedo (54.93) beat Blake Tierney (55.94) and Aiden Norman (55.12). Eventually month’s Canadian Olympic Trials, each Acevedo (53.55) and Tierney (53.48) punched their tickets to Paris. It’s the third Olympics in a row for Acevedo.
Kayla Sanchez prevailed within the girls’s 100 free (54.25) in opposition to Taylor Ruck (55.51). Sanchez, who is about to symbolize the Philippines subsequent month after switching sporting citizenship from Canada, lowered her season greatest from 54.88 at February’s World Championships, however she nonetheless hasn’t been below 54 seconds because the 2022 World Championships (53.45). Ruck was a few second off her 54.47 from Canadian Olympic Trials final month that positioned her 4th.
=Within the girls’s 100 again, Ashley McMillan threw down a personal-best 1:00.82 for the win. The 20-year-old dropped greater than three tenths off her previous-best 1:01.16 from final month’s Canadian Olympic Trials, the place she positioned sixth.
The 50 breast featured a pair of enjoyable battles. On the ladies’s aspect, Sophie Angus (31.68) held off Alexanne Lepage (32.01) for the win. Angus owns a lifetime better of 30.86 from the 2024 World Championships in February, when she positioned twelfth within the semifinals. On the lads’s aspect, Aleksas Savickas (28.20) picked up a detailed win in opposition to Apollo Hess (28.47). Savickas, a rising Lithuanian junior at Florida, dropped virtually a tenth off his previous-best 28.29 from 2022.
Applejean Gwinn captured the ladies’s 200 fly crown in 2:17.58. The UCLA commit (’25) touched inside a number of seconds of her personal-best 2:14.62 from final summer season.
