Euro’s Yuliya Efimova clipped USA’s Katie Meili by the slimmest of margins with a U.S. Open mark in the women’s 100-meter breast at the 2015 Duel in the Pool.
Efimova won the race, 1:03.19 to 1:03.20, as her time broke the U.S. Open record of 1:03.33 set by Rebecca Soni back in 2011. That’s almost as fast as Efimova’s career best 1:02.96 from 2013.
Meili broke Jessica Hardy’s American record of 1:03.30 with that 1:03.20 as she moved up to sixth all time in the event’s history.
The fastest time ever by an American is a 1:02.70, however, as Soni clocked that in 2009. That time was unratified by USA Swimming. USA Swimming decided that American records set in techsuits after Oct. 1, 2009 – when USA Swimming implemented the techsuit ban domestically – would not be ratified. This is the case even for times swum legally in international events where ban was not in effect yet.
Hardy, meanwhile, took third tonight.
Euro’s Fanny Lecluyse (1:05.56), USA’s Laura Sogar (1:05.77), Euro’s Hilda Luthersdottir (1:05.92) also competed.
Running Team Score: USA 115, Euro 70
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Women’s 800 free
- Men’s 1500 free
- Women’s 200 free
- Men’s 200 free
- Women’s 100 back
- Men’s 100 back
- Women’s 100 breast
- Men’s 100 breast
- Women’s 200 fly
- Men’s 200 fly
- Women’s 50 free
- Men’s 50 free
- Women’s 200 IM
- Men’s 200 IM
- Women’s 400 free relay
- Men’s 400 free relay
