{"id":405788,"date":"2019-12-07T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=405788"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:42:59","slug":"zach-apple-swims-seventh-fastest-100-free-of-2019-with-47-6-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/zach-apple-swims-seventh-fastest-100-free-of-2019-with-47-6-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Apple Swims Seventh Fastest 100 Free of 2019 With 47.6 at US Open (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

2019 US Open (Zach Apple)<\/em><\/p>\n

Day Four Finals (Men’s 100 Free)<\/em><\/p>\n

Just when you thought the men’s 100 free field in the United States couldn’t get any more insane,\u00a0Zach Apple\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 47.69 on Saturday night at the US Open in Atlanta to improve on his season best of 47.79 from the World University Games as he remained seventh in the world for the 2019 calendar year. Apple is one of six Americans under 48 seconds this year. Apple confirmed what we already believed: that the men’s 100 free at the 2020 Olympic Trials will be one of the toughest events to try and make the Olympic team in.<\/a><\/p>\n

Zach Apple on his performance at the Toyota U.S. Open: <\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome. I didn\u2019t really know how this meet was going to go, we haven\u2019t done too much long course training. I think we\u2019ve only been in a long course pool four or five times this whole first semester, so just coming in I wanted to get a good amount of rest, shave, check where we are and it looks like we\u2019re in a pretty good place.\u201d<\/p>\n

On wrapping up 2019:\u00a0<\/em>\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome. This summer gave me a lot of confidence going into next summer, and I just wanted to build on that coming here and I think we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple<\/a> had a solid 200 free last night when he placed second with a 1:46.7. He swam at the World University Games this summer and also was on relay-only duty at the World Championships where he swam on four relays for the Americans, swimming the third leg of the 4×100 free relay that won the gold medal and was also on the mixed free relay final that won gold over Australia. Zach Apple has proved to be a valuable relay asset for the Americans and showed he is in very good shape at the moment with a 47.6. He did not get the opportunity to swim alongside two-time reigning World champ\u00a0Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>, who elected to not swim his best events this weekend in favor of the 200 IM, 200 free and 200 fly the last few days.<\/p>\n

Zach Apple finished ahead of\u00a0Dean Farris\u00a0<\/strong>(48.45), who had a solid swim in second. The Harvard student who is taking the year off of school to train at the University of Texas is the seventh fastest American this year with a 48.0 as he is a part of the insane depth in this country in that event.<\/p>\n

Croatian\u00a0Bruno Blaskovic<\/strong>, who trains with Apple at Indiana, placed third at 48.93 ahead of Olympic hopefuls\u00a0Tate Jackson\u00a0<\/strong>(49.07),\u00a0Robert Howard\u00a0<\/strong>(49.14) and\u00a0Michael Chadwick\u00a0<\/strong>(49.30).<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 47.69,\u00a0Zach Apple<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n
  2. 48.45,\u00a0Dean Farris<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n
  3. 48.93,\u00a0Bruno Blaskovic<\/strong>, CRO<\/li>\n
  4. 49.07,\u00a0Tate Jackson<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n
  5. 49.14,\u00a0Robert Howard<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n
  6. 49.30,\u00a0Michael Chadwick<\/strong>, USA<\/li>\n
  7. 49.48,\u00a0Christian Quintero<\/strong>, VEN<\/li>\n
  8. 49.72,\u00a0Marco Ferreira<\/strong>, BRA<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n