{"id":340384,"date":"2018-12-01T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=340384"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:01:36","slug":"jacob-pebley-posts-156-96-in-200-back-at-winter-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/jacob-pebley-posts-156-96-in-200-back-at-winter-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Pebley Posts 1:56.96 in 200 Back at Winter Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Pebley\u00a0<\/strong>won the 200 back final with relative ease as he led from start to finish in the event on Saturday night in Greensboro, North Carolina, as he won with a 1:56.96. Pebley won by over a second ahead of Crimson Tide’s\u00a0Christopher Reid\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.28) and\u00a0Markus Thormeyer\u00a0<\/strong>(1:59.10).<\/p>\n

Reid and Thormeyer represent South Africa and Canada respectively in international meets.<\/p>\n

Jay Litherland\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kane Follows\u00a0<\/strong>made it interesting for third place after Follows was leading the third place charge the whole race. Litherland finished ahead of him at 1:59.65 after flipping in last at the 100. Follows was fifth at 1:59.78.<\/p>\n

Harry Homans\u00a0<\/strong>(2:02.07),\u00a0Drew Carbone\u00a0<\/strong>(2:02.83) and\u00a0Nick Vance\u00a0<\/strong>(2:03.28) also swam in the A-Final.<\/p>\n