The annual Mel Zajac Jr. International meet opened in Vancouver on Friday with a mix of top-level swimmers from Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n
Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> turned in another fast swim, this time in the 200 free, winning the event in 1:48.73.<\/p>\n He finished ahead of former Florida teammates Maxime Rooney<\/strong> (1:49.84) and Mitch D\u2019Arrigo<\/strong> (1:50.39).<\/p>\n Later in the night, Dressel won the 50 fly in 23.69. Stephen Calkins<\/strong> was second (24.51) and Sid Farber<\/strong> was third (24.52).<\/p>\n Ryan Lochte<\/strong> won the 400 IM in 4:15.18, nearly seven seconds ahead of Tristan Cote<\/strong> (4:22.52) and Mark Szanarek<\/strong> (4:24.19).<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> won the 50 fly in 26.59, finishing ahead of Gretchan Walsh<\/strong> (27.14) and Sarah Watson<\/strong> (27.44).<\/p>\n Ben Lawless<\/strong> won the 800 free in 8:05.94, finishing ahead of Alex Pratt<\/strong> (8:10.84) and Ross Dant<\/strong> (8:15.56).<\/p>\n Isabelle Stadden<\/strong> won the 200 back in 2:08.37, followed by Katharine Berkhoff<\/strong> (2:10.55) and Sherridon Dressel<\/strong> (2:15.65).<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s 200 back, Markus Thormeyer<\/strong> won in 1:58.14, followed by Clark Beach<\/strong> (1:58.58) and Ethan Harder<\/strong> (2:02.55).<\/p>\n Rachel Nichol<\/strong> won the 100 breast in 1:08.88, holding off Bailey Herbert<\/strong> (1:09.11) and Kelsey Wog<\/strong> (1:09.45).<\/p>\n In the men\u2019s 100 breast, Jaren LeFranc<\/strong> won in 1:03.65, finishing just ahead of Jacob Foster<\/strong> (1:03.91) and Ruishen Yu<\/strong> (1:04.53).<\/p>\n Mackenzie Padington<\/strong> won the 200 free in 1:59.09. Kyla Leibel<\/strong> was second in 2:01.48 and Gretchan Walsh<\/strong> was third (2:02.14).<\/p>\n Kelley Fertel<\/strong> won the 400 IM in 4:44.46 to finish ahead of Padington (4:45.68) and Savanna Faulconer<\/strong> (4:47.27).<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s 1500 free, Taylor Kabacy<\/strong> won in 17:28.25. Samantha Zastre<\/strong> was second (17:34.78) and Abby Maguire<\/strong> was third (17:42.20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The annual Mel Zajac Jr. International meet opened in Vancouver on Friday with a mix of top-level swimmers from Canada and the United States. Caeleb Dressel turned in another fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":301792,"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":[3,7,10],"tags":[68277,35724,36898,29327,58634],"class_list":["post-312329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","category-world","tag-2018-mel-zajac-jr_-international","tag-caeleb-dressel","tag-maxime-rooney","tag-mitch-darrigo","tag-sherridon-dressel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n