{"id":325052,"date":"2018-08-10T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=325052"},"modified":"2019-06-02T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:28:54","slug":"ryan-murphy-rattles-world-record-in-100-back-at-pan-pacs-grevers-misses-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ryan-murphy-rattles-world-record-in-100-back-at-pan-pacs-grevers-misses-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Murphy Rattles World Record in 100 Back at Pan Pacs; Grevers Misses Podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Murphy\u00a0<\/strong>was out under world record pace in the 100 back final on Friday night at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Murphy holds that world record<\/a> from when he led off the 4×100 medley relay in Rio two years ago. Murphy could not quite hold on for a best time, but finished in a 51.94, not far off his 51.85 world record.<\/p>\n

It is the third fastest time in the 100 back of all-time, tying\u00a0Aaron Peirsol’s\u00a0<\/strong>former world record from 2009. Murphy is now the first swimmer to break 52 seconds more than once. Murphy is now over half a second ahead of the rest of the world this year, including second place\u00a0Kliment Kolesnikov\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>of Russia.<\/p>\n

Murphy was well in front of the rest of the field as Japan’s\u00a0Ryosuke Irie\u00a0<\/strong>finished with the silver at 52.78 in front of his home crowd.<\/p>\n

Australia’s\u00a0Mitch Larkin\u00a0<\/strong>(52.88) was back on the podium at a major meet in the 100 back after missing it the last two years. Larkin swam faster here in Tokyo than he did to win the Commonwealth Games in April, a promising sign for the now 25-year-old.<\/p>\n

Irie and Larkin moved up in the world rankings this year to sixth and seventh respectively.<\/p>\n

American veteran\u00a0Matt Grevers\u00a0<\/strong>finished off the podium in a surprising fourth. The time wasn’t bad for the gentle giant, as he had a 52.99. Grevers will keep his spot on the World Championship team for next year as he was a 52.55 at Nationals last month.<\/p>\n

Michael Andrew\u00a0<\/strong>won the B-Final at 53.55 ahead of\u00a0Justin Ress<\/strong> at 53.59.<\/p>\n

Canada’s\u00a0Javier Acevedo\u00a0<\/strong>(53.90) and\u00a0Markus Thormeyer\u00a0<\/strong>(54.02) finished in fifth and sixth.<\/p>\n

Japan’s\u00a0Masaki Kaneko\u00a0<\/strong>(54.33) and Australia’s\u00a0Bradley Woodward\u00a0<\/strong>(54.34) finished in seventh and eighth.<\/p>\n

2018 World Rankings:<\/h3>\n
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  1. Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, USA, 51.94<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Kliment Kolesnikov<\/strong>, RUS, 52.53<\/li>\n
  3. Matt Grevers<\/strong>, USA, 52.55<\/li>\n
  4. Evgeny Rylov<\/strong>, RUS, 52.67<\/li>\n
  5. Xu Jiayu<\/strong>, CHN, 52.72<\/li>\n
  6. Ryosuke Irie<\/strong>, JPN, 52.78<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Mitch Larkin<\/strong>, AUS, 52.88<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Justin Ress<\/strong>, USA, 53.26<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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