{"id":340143,"date":"2018-11-30T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=340143"},"modified":"2018-12-03T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:47:40","slug":"giles-smith-holds-on-for-winter-nationals-win-in-100-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/giles-smith-holds-on-for-winter-nationals-win-in-100-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Giles Smith Holds On for Winter Nationals Win in 100 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoenix Swim Club’s\u00a0Giles Smith<\/strong>, always strong over the first part of his races, blasted out to a 24.27 first 50 split in the 100 fly final, and he held on to take the title even as he faded down the stretch. Smith came in at 52.94, four tenths slower than his 52.54 prelims time.<\/p>\n

Grand Canyon’s\u00a0Daniil Antipov\u00a0<\/strong>finished fast and ended up taking second in 53.38, and Imperial Valley’s\u00a0Kevin Mendoza\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 53.64.<\/p>\n

Yoessek Tibazi<\/strong> finished fourth in 54.09, just ahead of Canadian\u00a0Josiah Binnema\u00a0<\/strong>(54.14),\u00a0Noah Bowers\u00a0<\/strong>(54.20),\u00a0Brendan Burns\u00a0<\/strong>(54.25) and\u00a0Noah Henderson\u00a0<\/strong>(54.80).<\/p>\n