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Margalis has been one of USA Swimming&#8217;s best in season swimmers the last few years, as well as one of the most versatile.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most versatile is\u00a0<strong>Leah Smith<\/strong>, who swam her third race of the night, and finished in second place at 2:16.68. Smith has usually been known as a distance freestyler but has since moved to the 400 IM and other events since exhausting her eligibility at Virginia in the spring of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/vien-nguyen-takes-first-400-im-final-in-tyr-pro-swim-series-at-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400 IM champion<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Vien Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>finished in third at 2:16.99, just ahead of 400 IM runner-up\u00a0<strong>Connie Dean\u00a0<\/strong>(2:17.10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ilektra Lebl\u00a0<\/strong>(2:18.00),\u00a0<strong>Emily Escobedo\u00a0<\/strong>(2:19.42),\u00a0<strong>Callie Dickinson\u00a0<\/strong>(2:22.10) and\u00a0<strong>Zoe Bartel\u00a0<\/strong>(2:23.71) also swam in the A-final.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_305920\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305920\" data-attachment-id=\"305920\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/melanie-margalis-coasts-to-200-im-victory-in-mesa-over-the-busy-leah-smith\/screen-shot-2018-04-13-at-9-42-42-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-9.42.42-PM-e1523670211531.png\" data-orig-size=\"761,291\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 9.42.42 PM\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 9.42.42 PM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-9.42.42-PM-e1523670211531-700x291.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-9.42.42-PM-1024x640.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305920\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-9.42.42-PM-e1523670211531-700x291.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 9.42.42 PM\" width=\"700\" height=\"291\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-305920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26-year-old veteran of the sport\u00a0Melanie Margalis\u00a0has also been showing consistency in the 200 IM and other events as she won the 200 IM final on Friday night at the TYR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":196122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[67125,25513,25178,40839],"class_list":["post-305913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-2018-usa-tyr-pro-swim-series-mesa","tag-leah-smith","tag-melanie-margalis","tag-zoe-bartel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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