Claire Tuggle. Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick
One more women’s event for the evening and one more record to be broken.
The U.S. women lowered the mark in the 4×200 free relay, finishing in a time of 7:57.93. It broke the old meet record set by the U.S. in 2009.
Claire Tuggle led off with a 1:59.32 split, followed by Isabel Ivey (1:59.73), Gretchen Walsh (1:59.72) and Lucie Nordmann (1:56.16).
Australia took second (7:59.97), followed by Japan (8:09.03), Canada (8:13.37) and New Zealand (8:18.91).
Event 16 Women 4x200 LC Meter Freestyle Relay
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Jr World: W 7:51.47 08/23/2017Canada
K Noelle Sanchez, P Oleksiak, R Smith, T Ruck
Jr. Pan Pac: M 7:58.26 01/09/2009United States of America, U.S.A.
A Taylor, S Tucker, C Breed, D Knutson
Team Seed Finals FINA Points
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=== A - Final ===
1 USA-US 'A' 8:02.40 7:57.93M 903 18
1) TUGGLE, Claire 04 2) r:0.58 IVEY, Isabel 00
3) r:0.34 WALSH, Gretchen 03 4) r:0.45 NORDMANN, Lucie 00
r:+0.68 28.30 58.42 (58.42)
1:29.01 (1:29.01) 1:59.32 (1:59.32)
2:27.96 (28.64) 2:58.15 (58.83)
3:28.78 (1:29.46) 3:59.05 (1:59.73)
4:25.92 (26.87) 4:55.82 (56.77)
5:27.41 (1:28.36) 5:58.77 (1:59.72)
6:26.55 (27.78) 6:57.39 (58.62)
7:28.32 (1:29.55) 7:57.93 (1:59.16)
2 Australia 'A' 8:00.24 7:59.97 892 14
1) PALLISTER, Lani 02 2) r:0.48 KING, Eliza 01
3) r:0.49 RYAN, Michaela 02 4) r:0.45 WEBB, Abbey 01
r:+0.70 28.04 58.53 (58.53)
1:29.26 (1:29.26) 1:58.83 (1:58.83)
2:27.72 (28.89) 2:58.08 (59.25)
3:29.00 (1:30.17) 3:59.28 (2:00.45)
4:26.94 (27.66) 4:56.79 (57.51)
5:27.65 (1:28.37) 5:58.34 (1:59.06)
6:26.53 (28.19) 6:57.59 (59.25)
7:29.42 (1:31.08) 7:59.97 (2:01.63)
3 Japan 'A-JPN' 8:02.09 8:09.03 843 12
1) IKEMOTO, Nagisa 02 2) r:0.28 IBAYASHI, Yui 00
3) r:0.18 NAKAMURA, Aoi 01 4) r:0.27 NAMBA, Miyu 02
28.40 59.36 (59.36)
1:30.32 (1:30.32) 2:01.49 (2:01.49)
2:30.16 (28.67) 3:01.21 (59.72)
3:33.37 (1:31.88) 4:05.60 (2:04.11)
4:34.03 (28.43) 5:05.52 (59.92)
5:37.65 (1:32.05) 6:09.24 (2:03.64)
6:36.13 (26.89) 7:05.88 (56.64)
7:37.65 (1:28.41) 8:09.03 (1:59.79)
4 Canada 'A-CAN' 8:06.21 8:13.37 821 10
1) O'CROININ, Emma 03 2) r:0.19 MCMURRAY, Ainsley 00
3) r:0.20 MACNEIL, Maggie 00 4) r:0.49 HENDERSON, Hanna 02
28.67 59.82 (59.82)
1:31.15 (1:31.15) 2:01.62 (2:01.62)
2:30.31 (28.69) 3:01.45 (59.83)
3:33.66 (1:32.04) 4:05.56 (2:03.94)
4:33.58 (28.02) 5:04.72 (59.16)
5:36.99 (1:31.43) 6:09.31 (2:03.75)
6:37.07 (27.76) 7:08.05 (58.74)
7:40.45 (1:31.14) 8:13.37 (2:04.06)
5 New Zealand 'A-NZL' 8:11.83 8:18.91 794 8
1) Edwards, Chelsey 01 2) r:0.35 Fairweather, Erika 03
3) r:0.62 Atkinson, Amadika 02 4) r:0.30 Thomas, Eve 01
r:+0.66 28.89 59.71 (59.71)
1:32.21 (1:32.21) 2:04.61 (2:04.61)
2:32.47 (27.86) 3:03.03 (58.42)
3:34.33 (1:29.72) 4:05.32 (2:00.71)
4:34.46 (29.14) 5:06.53 (1:01.21)
5:40.73 (1:35.41) 6:13.40 (2:08.08)
6:42.48 (29.08) 7:14.74 (1:01.34)
7:47.22 (1:33.82) 8:18.91 (2:05.51)
Nordmann didn’t go 1:56.1….
Congratulations USA ladys
Nice job Claire Jules Tuggle!!!!