By Phillip Whitten<\/p>\n
ATLANTA, Ga. March 23. THE 200 IM figured to be an exciting race \u2026and it lived up to expectations. <\/p>\n
Actually, it was two<\/i> races in one: Ryan Lochte vs. Michael Phelps\u2019 American record (1:41.30); and the rest of the superb field battling for second place.<\/p>\n
Lochte was ahead of Phelps\u2019 pace the entire way as Phelps, a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Michigan cheered him on. <\/p>\n
At the end of the fly, Lochte\u2019s margin was a scant 3-hundredths of a second, 22.19 to 22.22. But he moved well ahead of Phelps\u2019 pace on the backstroke with an incredible backstroke split of 24.25. Turning at the halfway mark, he was 99-hundredths of a second up on Phelps.<\/p>\n
But the breaststroke is Lochte\u2019s weak stroke, while Phelps has a strong breaststroke. <\/p>\n
No matter. The Florida senior extended his margin to 1.12 seconds with a 29.81 second split. Did I say that was his \u201cweak\u201d stroke?<\/p>\n
With the packed crowd cheering him on, Lochte powered home in 24.30 to clock an amazing 1:40.55, destroying Phelps\u2019 American record and his own NCAA mark (1:41.71), set last year.<\/p>\n
In the other race, Arizona\u2019s Adam Ritter clocked 1:44.20 to lead four swimmers with 1:44s to the wall. Auburn\u2019s Eric Shanteau and James Wike were third and fourth while Arizona\u2019s Dave Rollins was fifth. Lochte\u2019s Florida teammate, freshman Brad Alley, finished sixth.<\/p>\n
Event 3 Men 200 Yard IM
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\n NCAA: N 1:41.71 2005 Ryan Lochte, Florida
\n American: A 1:41.30 2006 Michael Phelps, Club Wolverine
\n US Open: O 1:41.30 2006 Michael Phelps, Club Wolverine
\n GTAC Pool: P 1:43.32 3\/23\/2006 Ryan Lochte, FLORIDA
\n Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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\n === Championship === <\/p>\n
1 Lochte, Ryan SR Florida 1:43.32 1:40.55A 20
\n 22.19 46.44 (24.25)
\n 1:16.25 (29.81) 1:40.55 (24.30)
\n 2 Ritter, Adam SO Arizona 1:44.15 1:44.20 17
\n 22.60 48.74 (26.14)
\n 1:19.29 (30.55) 1:44.20 (24.91)
\n 3 Shanteau, Eric SR Auburn 1:44.37 1:44.24 16
\n 23.16 49.36 (26.20)
\n 1:19.23 (29.87) 1:44.24 (25.01)
\n 4 Wike, James JR Auburn 1:44.83 1:44.37 15
\n 22.75 48.88 (26.13)
\n 1:18.93 (30.05) 1:44.37 (25.44)
\n 5 Rollins, Dave SR Arizona 1:44.93 1:44.75 14
\n 23.20 50.07 (26.87)
\n 1:19.34 (29.27) 1:44.75 (25.41)
\n 6 Ally, Bradley FR Florida 1:45.23 1:45.16 13
\n 22.88 49.22 (26.34)
\n 1:19.48 (30.26) 1:45.16 (25.68)
\n 7 Cass, Nate FR Stanford 1:45.36 1:45.84 12
\n 23.35 49.59 (26.24)
\n 1:19.71 (30.12) 1:45.84 (26.13)
\n 8 Newman, Keenan SO Stanford 1:45.53 1:47.73 11
\n 23.59 50.93 (27.34)
\n 1:21.69 (30.76) 1:47.73 (26.04)<\/p>\n
=== Consolation === <\/p>\n
9 Stovall, Gil SO Georgia 1:46.19 1:45.83 9
\n 22.61 49.30 (26.69)
\n 1:21.65 (32.35) 1:45.83 (24.18)
\n 10 Stephens, Mark SR Stanford 1:46.30 1:45.91 7
\n 23.03 50.43 (27.40)
\n 1:20.61 (30.18) 1:45.91 (25.30)
\n 11 Salatta, Lucas FR Florida 1:45.77 1:46.04 6
\n 23.06 49.35 (26.29)
\n 1:21.42 (32.07) 1:46.04 (24.62)
\n 12 Cady, Kurt SR Auburn 1:46.47 1:46.16 5
\n 23.03 50.27 (27.24)
\n 1:21.19 (30.92) 1:46.16 (24.97)
\n 13 Van Wie, Doug SR Auburn 1:45.88 1:46.21 4
\n 23.12 49.64 (26.52)
\n 1:21.40 (31.76) 1:46.21 (24.81)
\n 14 Molina, Miguel SR Cal. Berkeley 1:46.25 1:46.60 3
\n 23.77 50.77 (27.00)
\n 1:21.65 (30.88) 1:46.60 (24.95)
\n 15 Mitchell, Adam SR Minnesota 1:46.54 1:46.89 2
\n 23.19 50.24 (27.05)
\n 1:21.79 (31.55) 1:46.89 (25.10)
\n 16 Oriwol, Tobias SR Stanford 1:45.67 1:47.99 1
\n 23.07 50.24 (27.17)
\n 1:21.65 (31.41) 1:47.99 (26.34)<\/p>\n
=== Preliminaries === <\/p>\n
17 Alexandrov, Mike JR Northwestern 1:46.63
\n 18 Mellors, Pat SO Virginia 1:46.67
\n 19 Clark, Ian JR Southern Method. 1:47.07
\n 20 Zoldak, Krzysztof SO Pacific 1:47.14
\n 21 Rathgeber, Geoff SO Harvard 1:47.15
\n 22 Dauw, Casey SR Tennessee 1:47.17
\n 23 King, Nathan JR Ohio State 1:47.22
\n 24 Sun, Hongzhe JR Stanford 1:47.35
\n 25 McDermott, Caleb SO Texas 1:47.36
\n 26 Connell, Rory SO Auburn 1:47.37
\n 27 Donaldson, David JR Texas 1:47.42
\n 28 Schneider, Joey JR Auburn 1:47.56
\n 29 Hetland, Alex SO Southern Method. 1:47.58
\n 30 Vayo, Louis SO Cal. Berkeley 1:47.93
\n 30 Osborne, Sean JR Auburn 1:47.93
\n 32 Eckert, Mark SO Cal. Berkeley 1:47.99
\n 33 Gloeckner, Julius FR Louisiana State 1:48.15
\n 34 Manley, Steven SR Kentucky 1:48.37
\n 35 Nevo, Gal FR Arizona 1:48.52
\n 36 Hasbani, Meir JR Princeton 1:49.29
\n 37 Maire, Romain SO Purdue 1:49.31
\n 38 Johnson, Mark JR Auburn 1:49.60
\n 39 Nead, Kevin SO Florida 1:49.64
\n 40 Murry, Steven FR Indiana 1:49.95
\n 40 Kornfeld, Paul FR Stanford 1:49.95
\n 42 Cormier, Kyle SO South Carolina 1:50.04
\n 43 Marmolejo, Pablo SO West Virginia 1:50.11
\n 44 Pogioli, Giordan SR Purdue 1:50.46
\n 45 Nuess, CJ SO Arizona 1:50.89
\n 46 O'Neil, Patrick JR Cal. Berkeley 1:51.90<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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