Hilary Caldwell Wins 200 Back Over Stacked Field in Santa Clara

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Canadian veteran Hilary Caldwell out swam a solid field in the women’s 200 backstroke in Santa Clara with a 2:09.20 to be the only swimmer under 2:10 in the final. Caldwell was the Olympic bronze medalist last summer. Caldwell, 26, out raced 15-year-old rising star Regan Smith from the state of Minnesota (2:10.35) and fellow Canadian Olympian Kylie Masse (2:10.41). Smith is now the second fastest American this year behind fellow youngster Eva Merrell (2:10.22 from Austin). Caldwell and Masse will be off to Budapest for Canada later this summer as they sit second and fourth in the world rankings from earlier this year, with Masse in second just behind Australia’s Emily Seebohm.

Erin Voss (2:10.81), Kathleen Baker (2:11.24), Ally Howe (2:12.30), Claudia Lau (2:14.60), Janet Hu (2:14.61) and Allie Szekely (2:14.73) also swam in the A-fnal.

 Event 15  Women 200 LC Meter Backstroke
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    Name                  Age Team              Prelims     Finals        
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                        === A - Final ===                         
 
  1 Caldwell, Hilary A     26 Island Swimming-  2:10.96    2:09.20  
                 30.96      1:03.51 (32.55)
        1:36.53 (33.02)     2:09.20 (32.67)
  2 Smith, Regan E         15 Riptide Swim Tea  2:10.85    2:10.35  
                 30.77      1:03.69 (32.92)
        1:37.23 (33.54)     2:10.35 (33.12)
  3 Masse, Kylie           21 Windsor-Essex-    2:09.89    2:10.41  
                 30.17      1:03.83 (33.66)
        1:37.50 (33.67)     2:10.41 (32.91)
  4 Voss, Erin E           18 Un-Stanford-PC-   2:12.18    2:10.81  
                 31.47      1:04.72 (33.25)
        1:38.05 (33.33)     2:10.81 (32.76)
  5 Baker, Kathleen S      20 Una MAC-NC-       2:10.79    2:11.24  
                 30.28      1:03.44 (33.16)
        1:37.80 (34.36)     2:11.24 (33.44)
  6 Howe, Ally J           21 Un-Stanford-PC-   2:12.97    2:12.30  
                 31.12      1:04.60 (33.48)
        1:38.46 (33.86)     2:12.30 (33.84)
  7 Lau, Claudia C         24 Hong Kong-        2:13.65    2:14.60  
                 31.95      1:06.09 (34.14)
        1:40.59 (34.50)     2:14.60 (34.01)
  8 Hu, Janet Y            21 Un-Stanford-PC-   2:13.32    2:14.61  
                 32.41      1:06.28 (33.87)
        1:40.95 (34.67)     2:14.61 (33.66)
  9 Szekely, Allie E       19 Un-Stanford-PC-   2:12.54    2:14.73  
                 32.26      1:05.78 (33.52)
        1:40.80 (35.02)     2:14.73 (33.93)

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Brenna

6 years ago

FYI…Regan went 2:09.79 in Indy at a Sectionals meet in March.

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Andy Ross

6 years ago

Reply to Brenna

Thanks for the update. It would be nice if FINA updated their rankings system for those minor meets.

Thomas A. Small

6 years ago

Congratulations

Marina Weinberger

6 years ago

Good job!