Ryan Murphy Edges Out Ryosuke Irie in Santa Clara 200 Back

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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 200 Back

Murphy blasted a world top-ten time of 1:56.06 in the 200 back to take the win in Santa Clara. Team Elite’s. Ryosuke Irie and Cal’s Jacob Pebley did likewise in 1:56.36 and 1:57.34 although all three men were a few tenths off their season bests.

Murphy was out in a quick 56.92, while Pebley was second through the 150. But it was Irie who out-split the entire field in the last fifty, coming home in a 28.71 to pass Pebley, and nearly Murphy, in the end.

Swim Ontario’s Javier Acevedo was also under two minutes in 1:59.97 and was followed by Markus Thormeyer (2:00.13) and Ryan Lochte (2:00.82).

Daniel Carr (2:01.77), Austin Katz (2:02.68) and DeVine (2:07.62) placed seventh through ninth.

 Event 8  Men 200 LC Meter Backstroke
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        World: W 1:51.92  7/31/2009 Aaron Peirsol, USA
     American: A 1:51.92  7/31/2009 Aaron Peirsol, USA
     Pro Swim: M 1:55.04  2017      Xu Jiayu
    Name                  Age Team              Prelims     Finals        
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                    === Championship Final ===                    
 
  1 Murphy, Ryan           22 California Aquat  1:59.98    1:56.06  
    r:+0.57  27.52        56.92 (29.40)
        1:26.77 (29.85)     1:56.06 (29.29)
  2 Irie, Ryosuke          28 Team Elite        2:00.77    1:56.36  
    r:+0.49  27.86        57.60 (29.74)
        1:27.65 (30.05)     1:56.36 (28.71)
  3 Pebley, Jacob          24 California Aquat  2:00.54    1:57.34  
    r:+0.71  27.86        57.56 (29.70)
        1:27.58 (30.02)     1:57.34 (29.76)
  4 Acevedo, Javier        20 Swim Ontario      2:00.81    1:59.97  
    r:+0.66  28.52        58.70 (30.18)
        1:29.75 (31.05)     1:59.97 (30.22)
  5 Thormeyer, Markus      20 HPC Vancouver     2:02.71    2:00.13  
    r:+0.71  28.76        59.07 (30.31)
        1:29.91 (30.84)     2:00.13 (30.22)
  6 Lochte, Ryan           33 Unattached        2:00.34    2:00.82  
    r:+0.70  28.25        58.66 (30.41)
        1:29.37 (30.71)     2:00.82 (31.45)
  7 Carr, Daniel           19 California Aquat  2:02.20    2:01.77  
    r:+0.62  28.63        59.03 (30.40)
        1:30.68 (31.65)     2:01.77 (31.09)
  8 Katz, Austin           19 Una TXLA          2:02.70    2:02.68  
    r:+0.70  28.79        59.74 (30.95)
        1:31.93 (32.19)     2:02.68 (30.75)
  9 DeVine, Abrahm         21 Unattached Stanf  2:03.03    2:07.62  
    r:+0.80  29.80      1:02.94 (33.14)
        1:36.14 (33.20)     2:07.62 (31.48)

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