2015 Pan American Games: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap

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Women’s 100 free

USA’s Natalie Coughlin kicked off the morning with a sizzling Pan American Games record in the women’s 100-meter free at the 2015 Pan American Games.

Coughlin raced her way to a 53.85 to top the heat, and cleared Amanda Weir’s Games record time of 54.46 from 12 years ago in 2003 in Santo Domingo.

That’s Coughlin’s first time under 54 seconds this year, bettering her 19th-ranked season best of 54.18 from the Mesa stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series. She moved up to 10th in the world with her swim this morning.

Bahamas’ Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace turned in a swift time of 54.00 for the second seed heading into finals. That’s just off her 13th-ranked season best of 53.97 from the Monte Carlo stop of the Mare Nostrum event.

Canada’s Chantal Van Landeghem checked in with a third-seeded time of 54.31, while USA’s Weir snared the fourth seed in 54.36.

Brazil’s Larissa Martins (55.01), Canada’s Michelle Williams (55.29), Puerto Rico’s Vanessa Garcia (55.45) and Brazil’s Graciele Herrmann (55.54) comprise the rest of the A final.

Mexico’s Liliana Ibanez (55.80), Colombia’s Isabella Arcila (56.12), Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson (56.29), Venezuela’s Arlene Semeco (56.56), Argentina’s Aixa Triay (56.82), Cuba’s Elisbet Gamez (56.94), Suriname’s Chinyere Pigot (57.29) and Peru’s McKenna De Bever (57.40) made up the B final.

Men’s 100 free

Argentina’s Federico Grabich put together the best time in the morning to take prelims of the men’s 100-meter free.

Grabich clocked a time of 48.60 to move to 16th in the world rankings as he was easily the fastest swimmer this morning.

Canada’s Santo Condorelli raced his way to the second seed in 48.88 with Brazil’s Marcelo Chierighini claiming third in 48.92 as the only other sub-49.

Venezuela’s Cristian Quintero (49.07), Canada’s Yuri Kisil (49.07), Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter (49.29), Suriname’s Renzo Tjon-A-Joe (49.47) and Brazil’s Matheus Santana (49.52) also grabbed spots in the A final.

The big surprise is that the American failed to make the championship heat.

USA’s Darian Townsend (49.88) and Cullen Jones (50.09) finished 10th and 11th in the morning to make the B final.

Cayman Islands’ Brett Fraser (49.58), Paraguay’s Ben Hocking (50.14), Saint Lucia’s Jordan Augier (50.82), Mexico’s Luis Campos (51.29), Aruba’s Jordy Groters (51.71) and Honduras’ Allan Gutierrez (52.16) also will battle in the consolation heat.

Women’s 200 fly

USA’s Katie Mills powered her way through the 2:09 barrier for the first time with a 2:08.89 to earn the top seed in the women’s 200-meter fly.

That bettered her previous lifetime best of 2:09.63 from the Spring Spanish Championships in March.

Canada’s Audrey Lacroix, the fourth-ranked swimmer in the world with a 2:07.63 this year, cruised her way to the second seed in 2:10.33. Venezuela’s Andreina Pinto put up a 2:10.98 for the third seed.

Argentina’s Virginia Bardach (2:12.31), Venezuela’s Isabella Paez (2:12.63), Brazil’s Joanna Maranhao (2:12.64), Guatemala’s Valerie Gruest (2:13.87) and Mexico’s Diana Luna (2:14.21) also snagged lanes in the championship heat.

Colombia’s Jessica Camposano (2:14.35), Brazil’s Manuella Lyrio (2:15.55), USA’s Kylie Stewart (2:16.22), Panama’s Maria Far (2:18.57), Puerto Rico’s Tereysa Lehnertz (2:18.57), Chile’s Estefania Urzua (2:19.23), Cayman Islands’ Lara Butler (2:22.81) and Jamaica’s Trudian Patrick (2:24.26) will compete in the B final.

It wasn’t that exciting of a prelim competition considering just 17 swimmers actually raced. Aruba’s Dan Van Den Berg took 17th in 2:26.04 with Canada’s Noemie Thomas scratching prelims.

Men’s 200 fly

Peru’s Mauricio Fiol turned in a sizzling time in heat 2 of the men’s 200-meter fly for the top seed.

Fiol clocked a top time of 1:56.81 to crush his Peruvian record of 1:58.29 set at the 2013 World championships in Barcelona.

Brazil’s Leonardo De Deus, ranked seventh in the world with a 1:55.19 from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, eased his way to the second seed in 1:58.44. USA’s Bobby Bollier snared the third seed in 1:58.61.

Canada’s Alec Page (1:58.82), Venezuela’s Marcos Lavado (1:59.08), Brazil’s Kaio Almeida (1:59.24), Canada’s Zack Chetrat (1:59.39) and Puerto Rico’s Andrew Torres (1:59.83) all broke 2:00 to make the A final.

Mexico’s Long Gutierrez (2:00.30), Colombia’s Esnaider Reales (2:01.19), Colombia’s Andres Montoya (2:01.73), Cuba’s Lazaro Vergara (2:02.43), USA’s Ty Stewart (2:02.68), Mexico’s Jose Martinez (2:03.15), Paraguay’s Max Abreu (2:05.61) and Virgin Islands’ Matt Mays (2:07.90) will swim in the B final.

Women’s 400 free relay

Team USA continued to dominate relays at the Pan American Games as the Stars and Stripes smashed its own meet record in the women’s 400-meter free relay.

Katie Meili (55.51), Allison Schmitt (53.82), Madison Kennedy (53.92) and Kelsi Worrell (54.03) smoked prelims with a top time of 3:37.28. That effort smashed the previous mark of 3:40.66 set by the U.S. in 2011, and finished more than five seconds ahead of Canada.

Canada’s Sandrine Mainville (54.89), Alyson Ackman (55.68), Katerine Savard (55.40) and Dominique Bouchard (56.86) took the second seed in 3:42.83.

Brazil’s Daiane Oliveira (56.93), Manuella Lyrio (56.95), Etiene Medeiros (56.17) and Daynara De Paula (56.68) put up a third-seeded 3:46.73.

Colombia (3:49.61), Venezuela (3:49.89), Mexico (3:51.61), Peru (3:54.44) and Jamaica (3:59.09) also competed in prelims.

Men’s 400 free relay

With just seven teams competing, it was all about posturing this morning at the men’s 400-meter free relay, and Brazil did just that.

Joao De Lucca (49.04), Nicolas Oliveira (48.78), Thiago Pereira (50.25) and Bruno Fratus (49.80) turned in a swift top seed of 3:17.87.

Canada’s Markus Thormeyer (49.82), Karl Krug (49.37), Evan Van Moerkerke (49.64) and Stefan Milosevic (49.94) qualified second in 3:18.77.

USA’s Josh Schneider (49.82), Michael Klueh (49.67), Eugene Godsoe (50.12) and Michael Weiss (49.33) earned the third seed in 3:18.94.

Argentina (3:23.00), Venezuela (3:24.81), Paraguay (3:36.52) and Peru (3:36.97) will also compete in the finale.

2015 Pan American Games Swimming, Day 1 Prelims – Results

SCHEDULED EVENTS

Women’s 100 free
Men’s 100 free
Women’s 200 fly
Men’s 200 fly
Women’s 400 free relay
Men’s 400 free relay

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completelyconquered

8 years ago

What a pathetic men’s 400 free relay for the US.