Andrew Seliskar Drops a 1:45 In 200 Free Heats At Phillips 66 Nationals

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The men’s 200 free heats were expected to be tight as any number of sixteen guys across the board could sneak into the A-Final and get on the Pan Pac team. Seliskar was the only swimmer under 1:46 in the heats with a 1:45.77 to lead the tight field on Thursday morning in Irvine at the Phillips 66 USA Swimming Nationals. Seliskar is ahead of Olympians Blake Pieroni (1:46.26) and Conor Dwyer (1:46.34).

Seliskar is now third in the 2018 World Rankings behind Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys (1:45.12) and Australia’s Kyle Chalmers (1:45.56). Pieroni moved up to ninth in the world rankings.

2018 World Rankings:

  1. Danas Rapsys, LTU, 1:45.12
  2. Kyle Chalmers, AUS, 1:45.56
  3. Andrew Seliskar, USA, 1:45.77
  4. Mack Horton, AUS, 1:45.89
  5. Katsuhiro Matsumoto, JPN, 1:45.93
  6. Sun Yang, CHN, 1:46.07
  7. Fernando Scheffer, BRA, 1:46.08
  8. Aleksandr Krasnykh, RUS, 1:46.25

Stanford commit Jack LeVant is the fourth seed at 1:46.39. He moved to second all-time in the 17-18 NAG rankings behind Michael Phelps (1:45.99). LeVant is on a roll this week after he took a lot of people by surprise last night in the 200 fly when he got in the final. He ended up eighth in the final last night.

The rest of the 200 free field is stacked with Texas Olympians Townley Haas (1:47.55) and Jack Conger (1:47.63) sneaking into the final in fifth and seventh. Haas’s best time is a 1:45.04 from World Championships last year so he could have more left in the tank for tonight’s final.

Jay Litherland (1:47.58) and Trey Freeman (1:47.70) also will swim in the A-Final tonight.

There were a couple big A-Final misses with Zane Grothe placing 18th at 1:48.32 and Gunnar Bentz placing 25th at 1:49.47. Clark Smith was 66th at 1:51.87.

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