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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 400 IM
Kalisz won yet another TYR Pro Swim Series 400 IM, this time by over seven seconds. He took a dominant lead after the fly leg and never let up en route to a first-place finish. Although off his world-leading 4:08.92 from the Atlanta stop, the swim was not far off his 4:10.55 from Indianapolis. Slightly slower splits in the fly and breast portions of the race made the difference this time around.
Phoenix Swim Club’s Takeharu Fujimori finished in a distant second (4:10.09) while Mark Szaranek took third in 4:20.70. Szaranek was the only swimmer to split faster than Kalisz on any leg, going 59.01 to the Bulldog’s 59.15 on the freestyle.
Cal’s Sean Grieshop also posted an impressive free leg as he finished in the fourth position at 4:22.65. He was also in the mix at the halfway point but fell off the pace in the back 200.
Charlie Swanson (4:22.87), Clayton Forde (4:25.53), Abrahm DeVine (4:27.24) and Ricardo Vargas Jacobo (4:28.68) rounded out the final.
Event 4 Men 400 LC Meter IM
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World: W 4:03.84 8/10/2008 Michael Phelps, USA
American: A 4:03.84 8/10/2008 Michael Phelps, USA
Pro Swim: M 4:08.92 2018 Chase Kalisz
Name Age Team Prelims Finals
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Kalisz, Chase 24 Athens Bulldog S 4:20.63 4:11.62
r:+0.73 26.59 56.91 (30.32)
1:29.71 (32.80) 2:01.36 (31.65)
2:36.79 (35.43) 3:12.47 (35.68)
3:42.81 (30.34) 4:11.62 (28.81)
2 Fujimori, Takeharu 24 Phoenix Swim Clu 4:21.12 4:19.09
r:+0.64 27.32 59.33 (32.01)
1:33.47 (34.14) 2:06.58 (33.11)
2:42.65 (36.07) 3:19.12 (36.47)
3:50.07 (30.95) 4:19.09 (29.02)
3 Szaranek, Mark 22 Gator Swim Club 4:22.92 4:20.70
r:+0.65 27.62 59.09 (31.47)
1:33.78 (34.69) 2:07.40 (33.62)
2:44.19 (36.79) 3:21.69 (37.50)
3:51.64 (29.95) 4:20.70 (29.06)
4 Grieshop, Sean 19 California Aquat 4:20.79 4:22.65
r:+0.65 28.09 1:00.13 (32.04)
1:34.53 (34.40) 2:07.56 (33.03)
2:45.67 (38.11) 3:23.19 (37.52)
3:53.69 (30.50) 4:22.65 (28.96)
5 Swanson, Charlie 20 Club Wolverine 4:23.29 4:22.87
r:+0.67 27.99 1:00.23 (32.24)
1:35.77 (35.54) 2:10.72 (34.95)
2:45.89 (35.17) 3:22.84 (36.95)
3:53.99 (31.15) 4:22.87 (28.88)
6 Forde, Clayton 20 Una LAK 4:26.02 4:25.53
r:+0.79 28.88 1:00.27 (31.39)
1:36.52 (36.25) 2:09.94 (33.42)
2:48.49 (38.55) 3:26.60 (38.11)
3:57.47 (30.87) 4:25.53 (28.06)
7 DeVine, Abrahm 21 Unattached Stanf 4:24.89 4:27.24
r:+0.66 27.58 1:00.42 (32.84)
1:36.25 (35.83) 2:10.75 (34.50)
2:48.38 (37.63) 3:27.22 (38.84)
3:58.88 (31.66) 4:27.24 (28.36)
8 Vargas Jacobo, Ricard 20 Mexico 4:28.57 4:28.68
r:+0.69 28.26 1:00.54 (32.28)
1:36.66 (36.12) 2:11.21 (34.55)
2:49.66 (38.45) 3:28.42 (38.76)
3:59.10 (30.68) 4:28.68 (29.58)
