Suspended American swimmer Michael Brinegar competed for the Indiana College Swim Membership on Sunday at a collegiate membership meet on the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, outcomes present.
Brinegar, whose identify is misspelled within the outcomes, swam six occasions:
- 200 medley relay (sixth) – freestyle anchor leg, 21.50
- 200 free (1st) – 1:42.44
- 500 free (1st) – 4:32.69
- 200 free relay (fifth) – freestyle anchor leg, 21.99
- 50 free (fifth) – 22.40
- 400 IM (1st) – 4:09.54
Brinegar is presently serving a 4 12 months suspension from all Olympic-umbrella competitors after the US Anti-Doping Company discovered proof of blood doping, which Brinegar has denied.
Whereas the suspension extends to {most professional} degree competitors, U.S. Masters Swimming sanctioned occasions (see: Lance Armstrong), and USA Swimming occasions, different organizations that aren’t WADA signatories usually are not sure by these suspensions, although the suspension may set off corollary guidelines for a few of these organizations.
He additionally isn’t allowed to compete in every other Olympic or WADA-umbrella competitions, together with in different sports activities, nor practice with Olympic-umbrella coaches or groups.
This leaves suspended athletes in a position to take part in competitions on the NCAA degree, collegiate membership degree, summer time league degree (some have grownup divisions), the Enhanced Video games, and even Grown Up Swimming, none of that are World Anti-Doping Code signatories.
This was Brinegar’s first swimming competitors since being suspended, based mostly on obtainable data.
The Indiana membership swimming workforce was solely seventeenth finally 12 months’s Collegiate Membership Nationwide Championships, and it seems that by Collegiate Membership Swimming guidelines he’s probably ineligible for this 12 months’s meet. Collegiate membership powerhouse Purdue, which received the Hoosier Invitational on Sunday with 928.5 factors, are the defending males’s champions. Indiana was third at this meet with 394 factors, and Ohio State was 2nd with 483 factors.
Brinegar is a two-time World Junior Championship medalist, successful silver within the 1500 free and bronze within the 800 free in 2017. He additionally received a bronze medal within the workforce open water occasion on the 2019 World Championships.
He represented the U.S. on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games within the pool whereas coaching as an undergraduate at Indiana. In 2023, he moved to California to renew coaching with former U.S. Nationwide Group Director Mark Schubert, the identical man who coached his mom Jennifer to the 1976 Olympic Video games.
The 2025 Collegiate Membership Nationwide Championships might be held from March 28-30 on the Skyline Aquatic Heart in Mesa, Arizona.
