By P.H. Mullen<\/p>\n
She didn't set the world record she had promised all week, but Puyallup's
\nMegan Quann did the next best thing, winning the women's 100-m breast in
\nAmerican-record time.<\/p>\n
The race was the closest of the evening with Quann going stroke for stroke
\nagainst her friendly archrival Kristy Kowal of Georgia to the wall. Quann
\nled at the 50 meters, but it briefly appeared as if Kowal took command
\ncoming off the wall. As the two racers–Quann with her rapid-fire, rolling
\nstroke and Kowal with her wide, arching arm pulls–charged under flags
\ntogether, Quann moved ahead and finished .3 seconds ahead, 1:07.54 to
\n1:07.85. It was her third American record of the day, having set both the
\n50-m and 100-m standards during her prelim swim.<\/p>\n
"To be honest, I don't remember the race," Quann said. "I just kept telling
\nmyself, 'Go fast, go fast, go fast.'"<\/p>\n
Before tonight's finals, she studied a video of her preliminary swim and
\nmade several corrections to her kick and head position that she credited to
\ntonight's .2 second drop.<\/p>\n
In the men's action, Olympian Tom Dolan continued to astound on the fourth
\nday of the Phillips 66 National Championships, winning his second event of
\nthe meet, this time a hard-fought battle in the 400-m free over defending
\nnational champion Chad Carvin.<\/p>\n
Curl-Burke's Dolan, who was out of commission for most of 1999 after
\nsuffering a knee injury during a pick-up basketball game, hung on Carvin's
\nhip for the first 200 meters of the race, swimming close to the lane line
\nand benefiting from the Irvine swimmer's drag.<\/p>\n
At the race's halfway point, Dolan began building into his speed by
\nincreasing his arm turnover. Slowly he inched closer to Carvin, and at the
\n300 meters they turned together. With his body out of alignment, his kick
\nerratic and his arms chopping and spinning through the water, he fought into
\nthe lead on the second-last lap and then gutted it out to win. His time of
\n3:49.59 was only .6 seconds off his all-time best from 1996. Carvin hit the
\nwall in 3:50.39.<\/p>\n
In the men's 100-m backstroke race, Neil Walker of the Texas Aquatics took
\ncommand from the start with his signature power kick and by 25 meters
\nenjoyed a half body-length lead. He came strong off the wall at 50 meters
\nto further extend his lead and then held off charges by runner-up Aaron
\nPiersol, 16, of Irvine Nova and Team TYR's Bobby Brewer, 26.<\/p>\n
For Walker, it was his second gold of the meet, having captured the 100-m
\nfreestyle two days earlier. His time of 54:58 made him the sixth-fastest
\nperformer in history.<\/p>\n
Coming directly from the classroom to the fast lane, English teacher Lea
\nMaurer, 28, of the Badger Swim Club won the women's 100-m back,
\noutdistancing 200-m back winner, Puyallup's Jamie Reid, 1:01.47 to 1:02.29.<\/p>\n
Lake Erie's Diana Munz continued to script her own remarkable comeback
\nstory, winning her second event of the meet with a lifetime-best 4:08.56 in
\nthe 400-m freestyle over 1996 Olympic champion Brooke Bennett. Munz, who
\ninjured her back in a serious car accident last summer, also captured the
\n800-m free on the first day of the meet.<\/p>\n
Curl-Burke's Ed Moses, feeling tired after his recent NCAA races, won his
\nsecond breastroke event of the meet over Brendan Hansen and Bengal Jarrod
\nMarrs, who tied for second. Moses controlled the race until the final 25
\nmeters. He began to falter at the same moment Hansen and Marrs seemed to
\ngain second winds but hung on to win, 1:01.43 to their 1:02.35s.<\/p>\n
In the women's 100-m fly, Dallas Mustang's multitalented Martina Moravcova
\nwon on the back half of the race, pulling away from early leader Dara Torres
\nof Santa Clara to finish in 58.41 to Torres' 59.54. For the Slovakian
\nMoravcova, the time was a European record.<\/p>\n
The men's 100-m fly was won by Hungarian Olympian Zsolt Gaspar in 52.93.
\nFinishing second was NCAA champion Adam Pine in 53.07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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