﻿{"id":363777,"date":"2019-04-11T07:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=363777"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:31:44","slug":"michael-andrew-sets-new-tyr-pro-swim-series-record-in-richmond-50-back-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michael-andrew-sets-new-tyr-pro-swim-series-record-in-richmond-50-back-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Andrew Sets New TYR Pro Swim Series Record in Richmond 50 Back Prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third leg of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series kicked off on April 10 in Richmond, VA. World record holder <b>Katie Ledecky <\/b>and Olympic medalist <strong>Leah Smith<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2019-tyr-pro-swim-series-richmond-ledecky-moves-to-1-in-800-free-smith-posts-lifetime-best-on-night-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rattled the world rankings in the women&#8217;s 800 Freestyle<\/a>\u00a0on night one while\u00a0U.S. Open record holder <b>Zane Grothe <\/b>took the men&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/results\/pdf\/2019-tyr-pro-swim-series-richmond-psych-sheet-day-4-international-elite-2019-04-10.pdf\">PSYCH SHEET<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/docs\/default-source\/eventsdocuments\/guides\/2019-tyr-pro-swim-series\/tyr-pro-swim-series-at-richmond\/thursday-prelims.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THURSDAY PRELIMS HEAT SHEET<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omegatiming.com\/Competition?id=0001130108ffffffffffffffffffffff&amp;day=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LIVE RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the first morning of preliminary races, <strong>Michael Andrew<\/strong> posted a new TYR Pro Swim Series Record in the 50 Backstroke. His time of 24.66 broke his own mark of 24.68 set in January of this year in Knoxville. The swim maintains his current worldwide ranking of second. The event is led worldwide by <strong>Xu Jiayu<\/strong> of China in 24.47.<\/p>\n<p>He was followed closely by <strong>Ryan Held<\/strong>, who put up a 24.99 for the second seed. The time ties him for sixth in the world rankings. <strong>Matt Grevers<\/strong> was third in 25.41, one one-hundredth faster than his time in April of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Also finishing in the top eight were <strong>Jacob Pebley<\/strong> (25.64), <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> (25.75), <strong>Hennessey Stuart<\/strong> (25.82), <strong>Mohamed Samy<\/strong> (25.89) and <strong>Nikos Sofianidis<\/strong> (25.95).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"363788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michael-andrew-sets-new-tyr-pro-swim-series-record-in-richmond-50-back-prelims\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk.png\" data-orig-size=\"1820,1042\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-1024x586.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-363788\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk.png\" alt=\"michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk\" width=\"801\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk.png 1820w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-280x160.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-450x258.png 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-1200x687.png 1200w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-1572x900.png 1572w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-500x286.png 500w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/michael-andrew-tyr-pss-record-50bk-533x305.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third leg of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series kicked off on April 10 in Richmond, VA. 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