Taylor Ruck Out-Touches Sarah Sjostrom in 100 Free at Atlanta

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

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In a minor upset, Canada’s Taylor Ruck out-touched the World Record holder in the 100 free with a 53.37 to Sjostrom’s 53.43. This is Sjostrom’s second swim of the session as she earlier won the 100 fly with a 56.62.

Ruck is a Stanford commit and Sjostrom is Swimming World’s swimmer of the year. She will be honored March 3 in Fort Lauderdale as she will leave the Atlanta Pro Swim Series early.

Mallory Comerford finished in third at 54.06 as she out-touched Margo Geer (54.20).

Federica Pellegrini (54.26), Lia Neal (54.53), Kayla Sanchez (54.68) and Rebecca Smith (54.98) also swam in the A-final.

 Event 5  Women 100 LC Meter Freestyle
=========================================================================
        World: W 51.71  7/23/2017 Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden
     American: A 52.27  7/28/2017 Simone Manuel, USA
    U.S. Open: O 52.81  6/27/2017 Mallory Comerford, Univ Louisville-
     Jr World: J 52.70  2/11/2016 Penny Oleksiak, CAN
   GT Pool LC: P 53.82  5/4/2017  Simone Manuel
    Name            Age Team              Prelims     Finals  FINA Points
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Taylor Ruck      17 HPC-Ontario         54.36      53.37P  928  
    r:+0.72  25.82        53.37 (27.55)
  2 Sarah Sjostrom   24 Sweden              54.00      53.43P  925  
    r:+0.64  25.66        53.43 (27.77)
  3 Mallory Comerfo  20 Unattached          54.40      54.06   893  
    r:+0.69  26.23        54.06 (27.83)
  4 Margo Geer       25 Mission Viejo Na    54.14      54.20   886  
    r:+0.72  25.85        54.20 (28.35)
  5 Federica Pelleg  29 Italy               54.76      54.26   883  
    r:+0.68  26.28        54.26 (27.98)
  6 Lia Neal         23 Unattached          54.97      54.53   870  
    r:+0.70  26.82        54.53 (27.71)
  7 Kayla Sanchez    16 HPC-Ontario         54.70      54.68   863  
    r:+0.72  26.47        54.68 (28.21)
  8 Rebecca Smith    17 HPC-Ontario         54.74      54.98   848  
    r:+0.78  26.48        54.98 (28.50)

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Charlene Tallen

6 years ago

Whoa!

Gian Alessandro

6 years ago

Greatest upset in 2018 thus far?

Rich Davis

6 years ago

The new face of Canadian swimming. Oleksiak is done.

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Andy Ross

6 years ago

Reply to Rich Davis

If you take away Rio, Oleksiak has had a solid junior career. Getting to two WC finals at 17 is a feat in itself, especially considering women’s sprinting is at its highest level in a long, long time. I wouldn’t say “done” based off of some meet in March.

Ben

6 years ago

Reply to Andy Ross

Three finals at the WC last year, the only teenager in both the 100m freestyle (fastest women’s 100m freestyle final in history by average time), winning 3 individual silvers at the 2015 world juniors 6 weeks after breaking her elbow, and winning 10 medals in senior international events (3 of them gold) within a year of her Olympic debut.

And she tends to swim a lot faster in major events than she does in smaller events. We don’t have enough information on Taylor Ruck’s performance in major events to even make that comparison.

Ben

6 years ago

Reply to Andy Ross

Three finals at the WC last year, the only teenager in both the 100m freestyle (fastest women’s 100m freestyle final in history by average time) and the 50m butterfly. She won 3 individual silvers at the 2015 world juniors 6 weeks after breaking her elbow, and winning 10 medals in senior international events (3 of them gold) within a year of her Olympic debut.

And she tends to swim a lot faster in major events than she does in smaller events. We don’t have enough information on Taylor Ruck’s performance in major events to even make that comparison.

Halim Yussuf

6 years ago

Impressive

Carolyn Sheehan

6 years ago

Congrats, Taylor!???