{"id":134005,"date":"2015-05-15T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=134005"},"modified":"2015-05-15T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T23:17:12","slug":"katie-meili-with-another-lifetime-best-scorcher-in-100-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-meili-with-another-lifetime-best-scorcher-in-100-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Meili With Another Lifetime Best Scorcher in 100 Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SwimMAC’s Katie Meili set yet another lifetime best in the 100-meter breast with a win at the Arena Pro Swim Series Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Meili, who broke 1:07 for the first time this morning with a fourth-ranked time of 1:06.79, blasted her way to a sizzling 1:06.50 this evening.<\/p>\n

That swim broke a tie with Alia Atkinson for fourth in the world, and put her in sole possession of the spot. \u00a0Only Yuliya Efimova (1:05.89), Ruta Meilutyte (1:05.99) and Kanako Watanabe (1:06.45) have been faster.<\/p>\n

Also of note: Meili\u2019s time tonight would have won the 2014 USA Swimming national title by one hundredth of a second, and would have put her on the world championship team if she had swum that time last summer. Meili was fifth in the event in Irvine last August with a 1:07.44.<\/p>\n

Trojan’s Jessica Hardy turned up the heat with a time of 1:06.97 to claim second and stand sixth in the world rankings. \u00a0SwimMAC’s Micah Lawrence snared third in 1:07.42.<\/p>\n

Atkinson wound up in fourth in 1:07.99.<\/p>\n

Melanie Margalis (1:08.38), Newburgh’s Lilly King (1:09.08), Tennessee’s Molly Hannis (1:09.77) and BlueFish’s Laura Sogar (1:10.03) put up the rest of the times in the finale.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Breeja Larson held off a hard-charging Andee Cottrell, 1:08.72 to 1:09.17, for the B final win.<\/p>\n

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