(Race Video) Watch Michael Phelps Clock 55.19 in 100 Back in Orlando

Jun 21, 2015; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Michael Phelps (USA) swims the Men's 200IM Prelim in the final heat during the morning session of day four at the George F. Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara, Calif. Mandatory Credit: Bob Stanton-USA TODAY Sports

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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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Jan Fleming

8 years ago

No matter what his behavior out of the pool is, he still has it!

Rebecca Macleod

8 years ago

Lewis Jerome MacLeod xx

Wesley Morris

8 years ago

George Du Rand