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NBAC’s Michael Phelps, coming on a big win in the 100 fly last night, cruised into sixth overall in the men’s 100-meter back with a 55.19 at the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series Orlando.
This was part of an odd double for Phelps, with a 15th-place finish in the 200 breast later in the day. Neither of the events are among his typical specialties.
Original 100 back report:
California’s Ryan Murphy smoked prelims with a time of 53.88. That’s just off his fourth-ranked season best of 53.46 from the Austin stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series.
Murphy has some time to drop to challenge the top-seeded time of 52.85 by Mitch Larkin in Australia, but it isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
Grigory Tarasevich qualified second in 54.24 to move to ninth in the world, while Brazil’s Guilherme Guido put up a 54.64 for the third seed.
California’s Jacob Pebley (54.81) and Wolfpack’s Eugene Godsoe (55.15) turned in the fourth and fifth seeds.
NBAC’s Michael Phelps, coming on a big win in the 100 fly last night, cruised into sixth overall with a 55.19 in an event that is not one of his specialties.
Tucson Ford’s Matt Grevers, ranked second in the world with a 53.35 from Austin, eased his way into the A final with a seventh-ranked 55.27, while former Russian Olympian Arkady Vyatchanin,now swimming for Serbia, put up an eighth-ranked 55.74.
=== Preliminaries ===
1 Murphy, Ryan 20 Unattached 53.05 53.88JqNATS
26.41 53.88 (27.47)
2 Tarasevich, Gri 20 Unattached 53.64 54.24 qNATS
26.37 54.24 (27.87)
3 Guido, Guilherm 29 Brazil-US 53.09 54.64 qNATS
26.67 54.64 (27.97)
4 Pebley, Jacob 22 Unattached 53.89 54.81 qNATS
26.80 54.81 (28.01)
5 Godsoe, Eugene 28 Wolfpack Elite-N 53.96 55.15 qNATS
26.99 55.15 (28.16)
6 Phelps, Michael 30 North Baltimore- 53.01 55.19 qNATS
27.14 55.19 (28.05)
7 Grevers, Matt 30 Tucson Ford Deal 52.54 55.27 qNATS
26.94 55.27 (28.33)
8 Vyatchanin, Ark 31 New York Athleti 53.69 55.74 qNATS
27.15 55.74 (28.59)
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9 Sankovich, Pave 25 Club Seminole-FL 54.38 56.03 qNATS
27.27 56.03 (28.76)
10 Barnea, Guy 28 Club Wolverine-M 54.71 56.10 qNATS
26.85 56.10 (29.25)
11 Santi, Fabio 26 Brazil-US 54.42 56.23 qNATS
27.17 56.23 (29.06)
12 Hokfelt, Gustav 21 Unattached-PV 58.26 56.39 qNATS
27.42 56.39 (28.97)
13 Andrew, Michael 16 Indie Swimming-M 54.74 56.48 qNATS
27.47 56.48 (29.01)
14 Nolan, David 23 North Baltimore- 56.09 56.49 qNATS
27.39 56.49 (29.10)
15 Tarczynski, Mar 25 California Aquat 55.51 56.53 qNATS
27.63 56.53 (28.90)
16 Katz, Austin 16 Sarasota YMCA Sh 55.84 56.60 qNATS
27.90 56.60 (28.70)
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