2016 USA Swimming Trials: Day 7 Prelims Live Recap

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Scheduled Events:

Women’s 50 Freestyle
Men’s 1500 Freestyle

Women’s 50 Free:

Entering the meet with the fastest seed time was Madison Kennedy of SwimMAC who maintained her spot atop the qualifiers list with a swift 24.52 in prelims. That time sits just behind her seventh ranked 24.45 from the Mesa stop of the Arena Pro Series.

After clocking the top two times in last night’s 100 freestyle, sprint superstars Abbey Weitzeil and Simone Manuel continued to dazzle with a sprint battle in heat 17. Manuel got her hand a shy .01 ahead of Weitzeil to grab the second-place seed going into tonight’s semi-final with a 24.57. Weitzeil returns as third with a 24.58.

Newly minted Olympian Olivia Smoliga picked up the fourth place seed with a time of 24.78, while Katrina Konopka was fifth overall with a 24.90.

Three-time Olympian Dana Vollmer finished sixth in prelims with a 24.96 to be the last athlete under the 25-second mark.

Ivy Martin (25.05) and Kelsi Worrell (25.12) rounded out the top eight qualifiers.

Amanda Weir (25.15), Lia Neal (25.16), Maddie Locus (25.27), Katie Meili (25.37), Anika Apostalon (25.43), Taylor Schick (25.48), Caitlin Cooper (25.51) and Anya Goeders (25.53) return as the 9-16 for tonight’s semi-finals.

Men’s 1500 Free:

Club Wolverine’s Connor Jaeger held a decisive lead throughout the final heat the men’s 1500 free to become the only swimmer under the 15-minute mark. Jaeger, the American Record holder in this event with a 14:41.20, stopped the clock at a decisive 14:58.59 to qualify almost seven seconds ahead of the rest of the field for tomorrow’s final.

Jordan Wilimovsky, who has already earned an Olympic berth in the 10K Open Water race, finished second overall in prelims with a 15:05.89 from heat nine.

Michael McBroom, swimming in the same heat as Jaeger, did his best to hang close to the American Record holder finishing third overall with a 15:07.42.

P.J. Ransford picked up a fourth place seed for tomorrow’s finals with a time of 15:09.04, just ahead of Zane Grothe’s 15:11.72.

The young Robert Finke grabbed the sixth place seed with a 15:!5.52.

Clark Smith and Chris Wieser posted times of 15:17.10 and 15:17.51 respectively for seventh and eighth.

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