{"id":417312,"date":"2020-02-19T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=417312"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T19:05:25","slug":"anna-hopkin-splits-fastest-50-free-relay-start-ever-in-200-free-relay-at-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/anna-hopkin-splits-fastest-50-free-relay-start-ever-in-200-free-relay-at-20-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Hopkin Splits Fastest 50 Free Relay Start Ever in 200 Free Relay at 20.2 (RACE VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas senior\u00a0Anna Hopkin\u00a0<\/strong>swam the second leg on the Razorbacks’ 200 free relay and split a 20.27 on the second leg at the 2020 SEC Swimming and Diving Championships. That split put her as the fastest woman in history over 50 yards from a relay start, wiping out Stanford’s Simone Manuel\u00a0<\/strong>and Cal’s\u00a0Abbey Weitzeil’s\u00a0<\/strong>identical 20.45’s from the 2018 and 2019 NCAAs respectively.<\/p>\n

Hopkin<\/a> blew those swims out of the water as she nearly broke 20 seconds. She will be swimming the 50 free final later on tonight alongside Tennessee senior\u00a0Erika Brown<\/strong>, who led off Tennessee’s relay at 21.15. The individual NCAA record in the 50 freestyle is a 20.8 set by\u00a0Abbey Weitzeil\u00a0<\/strong>in December 2018. Based on what we have already seen tonight from Brown and Hopkin, that time could be lowered later on tonight.<\/p>\n

Hopkin is a native of Preston, England and was a final at the World Championships in the 50 free last summer while representing Great Britain.<\/p>\n

 4 Arkansas                      1:28.39    1:27.93 A       52  \r\n     1) Melton, Kobie M SO            2) r:-0.05 Hopkin, Anna SR      \r\n     3) r:0.43 Moore, Molly SO        4) r:0.32 Sansores DeLa Fdrea SO\r\n    r:+0.63  10.96        23.03 (23.03)\r\n           32.45 (9.42)       43.30 (20.27)\r\n          54.07 (10.77)     1:05.74 (22.44)\r\n        1:16.39 (10.65)     1:27.93 (22.19)<\/pre>\n
The race can be viewed below. Arkansas is in lane 2 at the bottom of the screen with Hopkin swimming the second leg. Amazingly, Anna Hopkin didn’t perform the step-over relay start<\/a> that has become so popular in sprint relays.<\/p>\n