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The second night of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series Santa Clara will feature men’s and women’s finals of the 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Back, 200 Breast and 200 Free. After the Indiana post-graduate group dominated the 1500 on night one, future and current Stanford swimmers took three of the top seeds for tonight’s finals.
Katie Ledecky, in her first professional race associated with TYR, claimed the top seed in the 200 Free – as did future Cardinal Jack Levant in the men’s race. Ella Eastin will start the session off with her top seed in the 400 IM, looking for the win in this event after narrowly losing out on the victory to Melanie Margalis in Indianapolis.
Veteran Chase Kalisz will set out to keep his 400 IM win streak alive, as will Kelsi Dahlia in the 100 fly. Cal’s Andrew Seliskar leads a competitive 100 Fly men’s field after the morning heats including the likes of Caeleb Dressel and Jack Conger.
16-year-old Regan Smith and reigning Olympic-Champion Ryan Murphy hold top honors in the 200 Back while Lilly King and Miguel de Lara Ojeda did likewise in the 200 Breast.
Men’s 200 Free
The Cal men grabbed yet another event on the second night in Santa Clara with Andrew Seliskar‘s victory in the 200 free. Fourth at the 100, Seliskar had the fastest second half of anyone in the race to come home with the win in 1:48.35.
Levant beat out Townley Haas in the end 1:49.49 to 1:49.55 despite the men swimming almost identical splits throughout the race. Gators’ Mitch D’Arrigo was not far off in 1:49.86, out-splitting Levant and Haas on the last lap.
Szaranek was back in the pool to take fifth in this event with a 1:51.16 and was followed by Jay Litherland (1:51.23), Zane Grothe (1:51.58), Conger (1:51.60) and Quah Zheng (1:51.69).
Event 12 Men 200 LC Meter Freestyle
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World: W 1:42.00 7/26/2009 Paul Biedermann, GER
American: A 1:42.96 8/12/2008 Michael Phelps, USA
Pro Swim: M 1:44.82 2016 Sun Yang
Name Age Team Prelims Finals
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Seliskar, Andrew 21 California Aquat 1:49.23 1:48.35
r:+0.64 26.10 53.74 (27.64)
1:21.12 (27.38) 1:48.35 (27.23)
2 Levant, Jack 18 North Texas Nada 1:48.43 1:49.49
r:+0.69 25.52 53.17 (27.65)
1:21.28 (28.11) 1:49.49 (28.21)
3 Haas, Townley 21 NOVA of Virginia 1:49.80 1:49.55
r:+0.72 25.38 53.10 (27.72)
1:21.29 (28.19) 1:49.55 (28.26)
4 D'Arrigo, Mitch 23 Gator Swim Club 1:50.00 1:49.86
r:+0.68 26.04 53.70 (27.66)
1:21.84 (28.14) 1:49.86 (28.02)
5 Szaranek, Mark 22 Gator Swim Club 1:50.65 1:51.16
r:+0.63 26.05 54.03 (27.98)
1:23.21 (29.18) 1:51.16 (27.95)
6 Litherland, Jay 22 Dynamo Swim Club 1:50.16 1:51.23
r:+0.73 26.27 54.54 (28.27)
1:23.10 (28.56) 1:51.23 (28.13)
7 Grothe, Zane 26 Mission Viejo Na 1:50.50 1:51.58
r:+0.72 26.59 55.09 (28.50)
1:24.27 (29.18) 1:51.58 (27.31)
8 Conger, Jack 23 Nation's Capital 1:50.72 1:51.60
r:+0.75 26.27 54.86 (28.59)
1:24.36 (29.50) 1:51.60 (27.24)
9 Quah, Zheng 21 California Aquat 1:50.81 1:51.69
26.10 54.57 (28.47)
1:23.20 (28.63) 1:51.69 (28.49)
It would be worthwhile to note that the fastest time on the day (1:48.22) was done in the B-Final by Tae Hwan Park, a 5 time individual medalist in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, including 2 silvers in this event.