Women\u2019s 100 Butterfly<\/strong><\/h4>\nWhat a start to ISL Match Eight, with Kelsi Dahlia<\/strong> of the Condors outdueling Marie Wattel<\/strong> to the wall by .01 seconds to get the win. Dahlia clocked in at 56.15, and stole a point from the eighth-place Roar finisher to give the Condors the early initiative.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m really in shock,\u201d Dahlia said on the broadcast, saying that she\u2019s been dealing with neck pain through a heavy week of training. \u201cIt\u2019s been a hard week. These are great competitors and I\u2019m really, really happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s 100 Butterfly<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe excitement for Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> at the wall was perhaps less for yet another win this season or for his quickest time of the campaign, a 49.33. But with fellow Condor Marcin Cieslak<\/strong> turning in his best time of the season by nearly a second, the Condors take a 1-2 to gain more ground. Third was London\u2019s Vini Lanza.<\/strong><\/p>\nWomen’s 200 Backstroke<\/strong><\/h4>\nBeata Nelson<\/strong> delivered a huge back half of the race to surge to the win, obliterating the field off the wall and scoring huge jackpot points, 12 in total plus five from fourth-place Hali Flickinger. <\/strong>Nelson\u2019s time was 2:02.31. Natsumi Sakai<\/strong> rode a strong front half to second for Tokyo, with London\u2019s Kira Toussaint<\/strong> third.<\/p>\nMen’s 200 Backstroke<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Condors are brandishing their depth again, making it 4-for-4 to start the match via Radoslaw Kawecki<\/strong>. He worked the third 50 to pull away and clock the second-fastest time of the ISL season at 1:48.12, more than a second up on the field and taking a jackpot of 12 points. Tokyo\u2019s Ryosuke Irie<\/strong> was second with London\u2019s Christian Diener<\/strong> fading to third.<\/p>\nWomen’s 200 Breaststroke<\/h4>\n
Another day, another Lilly King<\/strong> win, another Lilly King record. The breaststroke queen made it 28-for-28 in ISL, undercutting her ISL record with a 2:15.80 on the strength of a strong font half. But Emily Escobedo<\/strong> nearly charged her down, finishing second in 2:16.51, a lifetime best and a 2-4 finish for the Breakers with Molly Renshaw. Annie Lazor<\/strong> of London was third.<\/p>\nMen’s 200 Breaststroke<\/h4>\n
A non-Condor finally got their hand to the wall first with Marco Koch<\/strong> of the Breakers winning and picking up 15 points via the jackpot with a time of 2:01.40. Tokyo\u2019s Yasuhiro Koseki<\/strong> was second with Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> of London third.<\/p>\nAdam Peaty<\/strong> was fifth. Cali\u2019s Nic Fink,<\/strong> the ISL record-holder at the end of last year, finished eighth in his first match back from a wrist injury.<\/p>\nWomen’s 400 Freestyle Relay<\/h4>\n
Anna Hopkin<\/strong> took the lead off the final turn, coming home in 51.71 to give the Roar a huge victory to move them up to second place in the team standings. The team of Freya Anderson, Maria Kameneva, Marie Wattel<\/strong> and Hopkins clocked in at 3:28.72, 0.23 seconds ahead of the Condors (Olivia Smoliga, Natalie Hinds, Erika Brown, Allison Schmitt<\/strong>). Tokyo was a distant third.<\/p>\nMen’s 50 Freestyle<\/h4>\n
The expected showdown between Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> and Vlad Morozov<\/strong> turned into a lot of swimmers in Dressel\u2019s wash. The Condor dominated start to finish, his best time of the season and second in ISL at 20.65 seconds. Michael Andrew<\/strong> powered into second for the Breakers with Morozov third in 21.20. With Justin Ress<\/strong> in fifth and a Dressel jackpot, the Condors pick up 16 points in the event.<\/p>\nWomen’s 50 Freestyle<\/h4>\n
The Kasia Wasick<\/strong> show rolls on, the fastest 50 freestyler in the league this season adding another win in 23.47, a tenth off her fastest but still the third-quickest time of the season. She authored a 1-2 with Arina Surkova,<\/strong> yielding the Breakers a haul of 19 points, including a 12-point Wasick jackpot. Third was London\u2019s Maria Kameneva<\/strong> with teammate Freya Anderson<\/strong> fourth.<\/p>\nMen’s 200 IM<\/h4>\n
Andreas Vazaios<\/strong> took down Kosuke Hagino<\/strong> again, improving his ISL 2020 best time to 1:52.41, a margin of .28 on Hagino. London also got third place from Duncan Scott<\/strong> in an event where the Condors were shutout out, creeping within four points of Cali.<\/p>\nWomen’s 200 IM<\/h4>\n
In what commentator Rowdy Gaines<\/strong> billed as ISL Match Eight’s race of the day, Melanie Margalis<\/strong> seized the initiative on the breaststroke leg and swam away with the win for the Condors, a time of 2:04.18. It\u2019s within a tenth of her American record from earlier in the season. Yui Ohashi<\/strong> of Tokyo surged to second, with teammate Miho Teramura<\/strong> fourth. Abbie Wood<\/strong> of the Breakers led after 100 meters and finished third.<\/p>\nMen’s 50m Breaststroke<\/h4>\n
Adam Peaty<\/strong> charged on the final 10 meters to get to the wall first and outduel Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> in a star-studded showdown. Peaty\u2019s time was 25.98. Michael Andrew<\/strong> snuck in to second in 26.14, with Dressel in 26.15. Kirill Prigoda<\/strong> was fourth, Vlad Morozov<\/strong> sixth. The points allow the Roar to leapfrog into the lead.<\/p>\nWomen’s 50m Breaststroke<\/h4>\n
The titanic duel between Lilly King<\/strong> and Alia Atkinson<\/strong> had an interloper in Molly Hannis.<\/strong> King, however, prevailed, making it 29-for-29 in ISL event wins, surging in the final 15 meters and surviving a long finish to win in 29.20, .05 ahead of fellow Condor Hannis. Atkinson settled for third for the Roar, the only other swimmer to crack 30 seconds.<\/p>\nMen’s 400 Freestyle Relay<\/h4>\n
Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> brought home Condors for a win and 18 huge points, the rotated squad of Kacper Majchrzak, Justin Ress<\/strong> and Marcin Cieslak<\/strong> got to the wall first in 3:06.07. London was a second behind with Tokyo third and New York fourth, reflecting the team standings.<\/p>\nWomen’s 50 Backstroke<\/h4>\n
Quicker off the start and using her height to get into the wall, Kira Toussaint<\/strong> nipped Olivia Smoliga<\/strong> to the wall, the Roar swimmer clocking in at 25.79, a tenth ahead of Smoliga. Natsumi Sakai<\/strong> continued Tokyo\u2019s quietly solid showing by finishing third.<\/p>\nMen’s 50 Backstroke<\/h4>\n
A mustachioed Coleman Stewart<\/strong> is better than a suddenly beardless Guilherme Guido,<\/strong> apparently. The ISL rookie pulled an upset for the Condors, working his wall beautifully to rally for a win in 23.21 seconds, getting his hand to the wall .08 ahead of Christian Diener<\/strong> and .10 up on Guido, denying what could easily have been a London 1-2. Instead, the Condors stalemate the event, with both teams carrying 13 points.<\/p>\nWomen’s 400 Freestyle<\/h4>\n
The wait to swim for Leah Smith<\/strong>, and the wait for a win for Tokyo, paid off, Smith dominating the field to win the event in 3:59.70. She had been running 1-2 most of the way with teammate Chihiro Igarashi,<\/strong> but she faded to fourth. Second was Hali Flickinger<\/strong> of Cali, with New York\u2019s Boglarka Kapas<\/strong> third.<\/p>\n“I’m pumped to get under four minutes,” Smith said on the broadcast. “I was hoping to do that last meet, but I’m happy to get there today.”<\/p>\n
Men’s 400 Freestyle<\/h4>\n
Felix Aubock<\/strong> picked up another win, going 3:39.05 in a smartly paced race. The Breakers picked up 14 points in the event, with Brendon Smith<\/strong> fourth. Aubock needed to be on his game to hold off Townley Haas,<\/strong> the Condors swimmer turning in a lifetime best at 3:39.51. Third was Tokyo\u2019s Katsuhiro Matsumoto.<\/strong><\/p>\nWomen’s 400 Medley Relay<\/h4>\n
Olivia Smoliga<\/strong> put the Condors into clean water that they never relinquished, giving Cali control of the skins choice. The team of Smoliga, King, Dahlia and Hinds won in 3:47.79, just doing enough to hold off the charge by a 51.15 anchor leg from Freya Anderson<\/strong> and the Roar (Toussaint, Atkinson, Wattel, Anderson) by .12 seconds. Tokyo was third with New York fourth.<\/p>\nMen’s 400 Medley Relay<\/h4>\n
Within a tenth of a second at each of the three handoffs, it took Duncan Scott<\/strong> outfoxing Vlad Morozov<\/strong> on the anchor leg to take London to the victory over a game Tokyo side. The Roar squad (Guido, Peaty, Lanza, Scott) clocked in at 3:22.97, ahead of Tokyo (Irie, Koseki, Kawamoto, Morozov). London added a third-place result to yield 32 points in the race. The Condors could only tally fourth and seventh. The Breakers got just eight points from the race, with a DQ of the B relay.<\/p>\nIt puts London in striking distance for Day 2 of ISL Match Eight, just 9.5 points behind the Condors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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