Andrew Seliskar Completes Cal Men Dominance with 200 Free Win

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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)
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dunc1952
dunc1952
5 years ago

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.

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