The 2018 Mel Zajac Jr. International meet in Vancouver concluded with strong performances by many of the top swimmers at the meet.<\/p>\n
Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> set a meet record to win the 50 breaststroke in 27.89. Liam Johnston was second in 29.21, followed by Jacob Foster (29.42).<\/p>\n But the bigger news was Dressel was beaten in the 100 freestyle. He finished in 49.58, behind Markus Thormeyer<\/strong> (49.54). It wasn’t an earth-shatterling loss, but Dressel simply hasn’t been defeated very much in the past couple of years. Yuri Kisil<\/strong> was third at 49.69. Ryan Lochte<\/strong> finished sixth at 50.76.<\/p>\n Locate turned around and won the 100 backstroke just minutes later in 54.75. Clark Beach<\/strong> was second (55.65), followed by Robert Hill<\/strong> (55.82).<\/p>\n Penny Oleksiak<\/strong> won the 200 butterfly in 2:09.96, finishing well ahead of Bailey Herbert<\/strong> (2:14.93) and Victoria<\/strong> Kwan<\/strong> (2:16.23).<\/p>\n Oleksiak also won the 100 free in 54.50, breezing past Gretchan Walsh<\/strong> (55.77) and Mackenzie Padington<\/strong> (55.81).<\/p>\n Padington concluded her strong meet by winning the 800 free in 8:37.61. Molly Gowans<\/strong> was second (8:50.09), followed by Savanna Faulconer<\/strong> (8:51.27).<\/p>\n Rachel Nicol<\/strong> won the 50 breast in 31.69, followed by Zoie Hartman<\/strong> (32.08) and Ema Rajic<\/strong> (32.24).<\/p>\n Isabelle Stadden<\/strong> won the 100 back in 1:00.10, holding off Katharine Berkoff<\/strong> (1:00.65) and Phoebe Bacon<\/strong> (1:01.65).<\/p>\n Gianluca Urlando<\/strong> won the 200 butterfly in 1:59.12, followed by Mark Szaranek<\/strong> (2:01.04) and Nicolaas Dekker<\/strong> (2:01.84).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2018 Mel Zajac Jr. International meet in Vancouver concluded with strong performances by many of the top swimmers at the meet. Caeleb Dressel set a meet record to win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":302417,"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":[68277,29190,37716,53577,19138],"class_list":["post-312493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","category-world","tag-2018-mel-zajac-jr_-international","tag-cale-berkoff","tag-markus-thormeyer","tag-penny-oleksiak","tag-ryan-lochte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n