The speed picked up on the second night of the Mel Zajac Jr. International meet in Vancouver. on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Lochte<\/strong> and Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> were again at the forefront of the fast racing.<\/p>\n Lochte won the 200 IM in 1:58.90, a strong swim that puts him as the second-fastest American this year (behind Chase Kalisz). He finished ahead of Mark Szaranek<\/strong> (2:03.29) and Jacob Foster<\/strong> (2:03.66).<\/p>\n Dressel led off the men\u2019s session by winning the 100 fly in 52.45. He finished ahead of a strong field that included Gianluca Urlando<\/strong> (53.21), Maxime Rooney<\/strong> (53.69) and Lochte (53.71).<\/p>\n Dressel also won the 50 free in 22.15, finishing ahead of Yuri Kisil<\/strong> (22.52) and Sid Farber<\/strong> (22.61).<\/p>\n Oleksiak started the session with a quick time in the 100-meter butterfly, winning in 59.12. Heidi Bradley<\/strong> was second (1:01.07) and Phoebe Bacon<\/strong> was third (1:01.63).<\/p>\n Mackenzie Padington<\/strong> continued her strong meet by winning the 400 free in 4:10.63. Molly Gowans<\/strong> was second (4:16.46), followed by Savanna Faulconer<\/strong> (4:17.02). Padington also won the 200 IM in 2:15.25, ahead of Kelsey<\/strong> Wog<\/strong> (2:15.50) and Kelly Fertel<\/strong> (2:16.58).<\/p>\n Mitch D\u2019Arrig<\/strong>o won the men’s 400 (3:51.93), followed by Ben Lawless<\/strong> (3:54.99) and Michael Calvillo<\/strong> (3:55.54).<\/p>\n Isabelle Stadden<\/strong> won the 50 back in 28.17, ahead of Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> (28.38) and Emma Ball<\/strong> (28.47). In the men\u2019s 50 back, Markus Thormeye<\/strong>r won in 25.81, ahead of Wyatt Davis<\/strong> (26.28) and Cameron Auchinachie<\/strong> (26.44).<\/p>\n Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> won the 50 free in 25.50, holding off Sarah Fournier<\/strong> (25.80), Grace Cooper<\/strong> (26.11) and Sherridon Dressel<\/strong> (26.17).<\/p>\n Rachel Nicol<\/strong> won the 200 breast in 2:28.98, ahead of Bailey Herbert<\/strong> (2:29.95) and Wog (2:30.62). Foster won the men\u2019s event in 2:16.55, followed by Jaren LeFranc<\/strong> (2:17.89) and Ben Blackmon<\/strong> (2:20.71).<\/p>\n Berkoff, Ema Rajic, Zoie Hartman<\/strong> and Walsh won the 800 free relay in 8.18.97.<\/p>\n Urlando, Ross Dant<\/strong>, Calvillo and Foster won the men\u2019s 800 free relay in 7:36.14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The speed picked up on the second night of the Mel Zajac Jr. International meet in Vancouver. on Saturday. Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Lochte and Penny Oleksiak were again at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":210391,"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":[68277,35724,61848,53577,19138],"class_list":["post-312468","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-mackenzie-padington","tag-penny-oleksiak","tag-ryan-lochte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n