{"id":386812,"date":"2019-08-02T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=386812"},"modified":"2019-08-03T02:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:41:55","slug":"bobby-finke-grabs-gold-in-400-im-carson-foster-breaks-wjr-for-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/bobby-finke-grabs-gold-in-400-im-carson-foster-breaks-wjr-for-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Nationals: Bobby Finke Claims Gold in 400 IM; Carson Foster Breaks WJR for Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men\u2019s 400 IM (Bobby Finke)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The 1500 freestyle title pocketed<\/a> earlier in the week, Bobby Finke<\/strong> turned to his distance base to track down Carson Foster<\/strong> for the gold medal in the 400 individual medley, Finke touching in 4:13.15 and Foster going 4:13.39. En route to his second national title<\/a>, Finke covered the final lap in 28.19, more than a second faster than Foster, whose time was good for a world junior record. The former WJR stood at 4:14.00, set by Sean<\/strong> Grieshop<\/strong> in 2016.<\/p>\n

Jake Foster <\/strong>put together an impressive breaststroke leg and finished behind his younger brother in third with a time of 4:15.03. While the older Foster will head to the University of Texas this fall, his sibling will join the Longhorns the following year.<\/p>\n

Coming in only .14 of a second after the older Foster was Kieran Smith<\/strong> with a time of 4:15.17.\u00a0In fifth was Grieshop with a time of 4:15.50, followed by Brodie Williams<\/strong> with a time of 4:16.63.\u00a0Grant Sanders<\/strong> went 4:18.28 for seventh, followed by Mark Szaranek<\/strong> in eighth with a time of 4:18.90.<\/p>\n