Pan Pacific Championships, Results: Yasuhiro Koseki Clinches 100 Breast Title; Cordes With Another DQ

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GOLD COAST, Australia, August 22. JAPAN’s Yasuhiro Koseki clipped Brazil’s Felipe da Silva, 59.62 to 59.82, for gold in the 100-meter breaststroke finale at the Pan Pacific Championships. That’s a season best for both men as Koseki moved up to seventh in the world from a 59.91, while da Silva improved upon his own 59.91.

The win kept the title in Japanese hands after breaststroke legend Kosuke Kitajima won the title back in 2010.

New Zealand’s Gkenn Snyders (1:00.18), USA’s Nic Fink (1:00.24), Canada’s Richard Funk (1:00.36), Australia’s Jake Packard (1:00.54) and Japan’s Naoya Tomita (1:01.08) completed the A final with legal swims.

You do not, however, want to be Kevin Cordes of the U.S. right now. In yet another high profile meet, he has drawn a breaststroke disqualification. A year after being part of a relay transition disqualification with Matt Grevers in the 400 medley relay at the 2013 World Championships, Cordes was disqualified tonight in the 100. Cordes is now on the outside looking in for the 2015 Worlds roster spot after that disqualification.

Cordes’ cap slipped off at the start, and his goggles filled up with water. He wound up trying to take them off during the turn as his international meet bad luck continued.

A Final Results

  1 KOSEKI, YASUHIR  22 JAPAN             1:00.20      59.62   942  
    r:+0.67  27.91        59.62 (31.71)
  2 SILVA, FELIPE F  27 BRAZIL              59.92      59.82   933  
    r:+0.71  27.82        59.82 (32.00)
  3 SNYDERS, GLENN   27 NEW ZEALAND       1:00.41    1:00.18   916  
    r:+0.64  27.70      1:00.18 (32.48)
  4 FINK, NICOLAS    21 UNITED STATES     1:00.72    1:00.24   913  
    r:+0.73  28.33      1:00.24 (31.91)
  5 FUNK, RICHARD    21 CANADA            1:00.82    1:00.36   908  
    r:+0.61  28.52      1:00.36 (31.84)
  6 PACKARD, JAKE    20 AUSTRALIA         1:00.44    1:00.54   900  
    r:+0.70  28.07      1:00.54 (32.47)
  7 TOMITA, NAOYA    25 JAPAN             1:01.11    1:01.08   876  
    r:+0.61  28.42      1:01.08 (32.66)
 -- CORDES, KEVIN    21 UNITED STATES       59.70         DQ        
    r:+0.75  28.21           DQ (31.98)

USA’s Cody Miller could not replicate his sub-1:00 swim from Nationals, where he posted a 59.91, but he still managed to take the B final win with a 1:00.76 in his first major international night swim. Brazil’s Joao Gomes took second in 1:00.99 with Japan’s Hiromasa Sakimoto finishing third in 1:01.54.

Brazil’s Tales Cerdeira (1:02.44), Canada’s Lyam Dias (1:03.03), Philippines’ Joshua Hall (1:03.18), South Africa’s Jared Pike (1:03.20) and Hong Kong’s Ronald Tsui (1:03.52) also contested the consolation heat.

B Final Results

 9 MILLER, CODY     22 UNITED STATES     1:01.54    1:00.76   890  
    r:+0.66  28.49      1:00.76 (32.27)
 10 GOMES, JOAO      28 BRAZIL            1:01.17    1:00.99   880  
    r:+0.67  28.53      1:00.99 (32.46)
 11 SAKIMOTO, HIROM  30 JAPAN             1:01.16    1:01.54   857  
    r:+0.67  28.93      1:01.54 (32.61)
 12 CERDEIRA, TALES  27 BRAZIL            1:02.06    1:02.44   820  
    r:+0.63  29.44      1:02.44 (33.00)
 13 DIAS, LYAM       21 CANADA            1:03.23    1:03.03   797  
    r:+0.65  29.60      1:03.03 (33.43)
 14 HALL, JOSHUA     23 PHILLIPINES       1:02.41    1:03.18   792  
    r:+0.66  29.76      1:03.18 (33.42)
 15 PIKE, JARED      23 SOUTH AFRICA      1:03.34    1:03.20   791  
    r:+0.73  29.18      1:03.20 (34.02)
 16 TSUI, RONALD     21 HONG KONG         1:03.53    1:03.52   779  
    r:+0.62  29.65      1:03.52 (33.87)

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