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Margalis, representing St. Petersburg, pulled away to touch in 4:36.81, her best time by seven tenths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Eastin took second in 4:38.43, which was officially her first time ever under 4:39. She posted a 4:36.96 to finish second in the event at last year&#8217;s U.S. Nationals but was disqualified. Eastin&#8217;s Stanford teammate\u00a0<strong>Katie Ledecky\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 4:38.88.<\/p>\n<p>Athens Bulldog&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Hali Flickinger<\/strong> touched fourth in 4:40.36 after leading much of the race&#8217;s first half. Just behind was Penn State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ally McHugh\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:40.51, followed by Vietnam&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Vien Nguyen\u00a0<\/strong>(4:43.32) and Stanford teammates\u00a0<strong>Allie Szekely\u00a0<\/strong>(4:43.82) and\u00a0<strong>Brooke Forde\u00a0<\/strong>(4:44.10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leah Smith<\/strong>, last year&#8217;s U.S. National champion, won the B-final in 4:43.10, followed by Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Bethany Galat\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:43.88.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"310306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/melanie-margalis-edges-eastin-ledecky-for-400-im-victory-at-indy-pss\/women-400-im-indy-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy.png\" data-orig-size=\"1124,545\" 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=\"women-400-im-indy\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;women-400-im-indy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy-1024x497.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-310306\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy.png\" alt=\"women-400-im-indy\" width=\"700\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy.png 1124w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy-533x258.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy-280x136.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/women-400-im-indy-1024x497.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Margalis\u00a0trailed\u00a0Ella Eastin\u00a0for most of the women&#8217;s 400 IM at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis, but she took over the lead on the first 50 meters of freestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":310248,"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":[67722],"class_list":["post-310296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-2018-usa-tyr-pro-swim-series-indianapolis"],"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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