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Olympic Relay Gold Medalist Melanie Margalis Is Ready For First Individual At Tokyo<\/span><\/h1>\n
By Andy Ross
\nPhotos by Peter H. Bick<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMelanie Margalis is an Olympic relay gold medalist and a three-time relay champion at Worlds, but a podium finish in an individual event has eluded her on the world\u2019s biggest stage. She finished fourth in the 200 IM at the last two World Championships and the 2016 Olympics, but after ranking No. 1 in the 400 IM and No. 3 in the shorter medley for 2020, her turn to win a medal for the United States could take place this year in Tokyo.
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After establishing herself as one of the top IM\u2019ers in the United States as an undergrad at the University of Georgia in 2014, Melanie Margalis had full focus on the 200 IM heading into the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. With Maya DiRado and Elizabeth Beisel leading the charge in the longer distance, Margalis had become one of the top 200 IM\u2019ers in the world, finishing seventh at the 2015 Worlds and fourth at the 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n
After Rio 2016, Olympic gold medalist DiRado (200 back, 800 free relay) retired after earning silver in the 400 IM and bronze in the 200. The other Olympic finalist, Elizabeth Beisel, was on a farewell tour in 2017. At the World Championships in Budapest that year, Leah Smith made her 400 IM debut for the U.S. with a sixth-place finish while Beisel closed out her career in seventh.<\/p>\n
Margalis was at that meet, capturing gold in the 800 free relay and placing fourth in the 200 IM. But part of her knew that she could have been a factor in that 400 IM race had she trained for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the 400 IM, Coach (Gregg) Troy pulled me aside and told me, \u2018You need to start doing the 400 IM. You need to start swimming it.\u2019 Jack (Bauerle) was telling me all along that I should be doing it, but when Troy added that seed into my brain, I was like, \u2018OK, maybe I can give it a shot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
LONG AND COMPLICATED HISTORY<\/span>
\nMargalis, who turned 29 on Dec. 30, has had a long and complicated history with the 400 IM, widely regarded as one of the most difficult events in swimming. She had made two NCAA A-finals in the event, finishing as high as third as a senior in 2014. Later that summer, she was third at U.S. Nationals, and had swum it periodically over the next two years, but hadn\u2019t been up to speed with DiRado and Beisel, and elected not to swim the race at the 2016 Trials.<\/p>\n
By 2018, Margalis was reluctantly training longer IM sets with Bauerle at Georgia and was consistently swimming under 4:40. By the end of that summer, she swam 4:35.50, ranking her eighth in the world.<\/p>\n
Flash forward to 2020, and she had jumped to No. 1 in the world. \u201cThere was so much work mentally to be done,\u201d Margalis said of the longer race. \u201cI knew in my head that the 400 IM would be my best event, but I couldn\u2019t get there mentally, and it would just tear me apart. It was almost to the point where it wasn\u2019t healthy for my mindset at meets for me to do it because it would just explode my mind. I really had to do work in seeing it as a positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s also been so many girls who have stepped up in the U.S. in the 200 IM, and I felt that if I can have another shot to put myself on the team (by swimming both events), then I should take it. But it took a lot of work to get past my mental block with how hard that race is.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2019, four American women were ranked among the top 10 in the world in the 400 IM. Margalis finished the year at 11th, but three months into 2020\u2014two weeks before the Olympics had been postponed\u2014she swam a 4:32.53 at the TYR Pro Series stop in Des Moines, Iowa. She led the world rankings by three-and-a-half seconds!<\/p>\n
\u201cI told myself all day that I needed to stop \u2018being a baby,\u2019 so that was pretty much my race plan,\u201d Margalis said in her TV interview after the race. \u201cAt that meet, I was like, \u2018We are going to go for it.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Swimming World Magazine February 2021 Issue<\/span><\/h2>\n
FEATURES<\/p>\n
012<\/span> THE PRIDE OF GIRLS\u2019 POLO IN THE GATEWAY CITY<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Michael Randazzo<\/strong>
\nWhen COVID-19 lockdowns last spring stopped polo, Rob Peglar and Abby VerMeer didn\u2019t hesitate: they focused on getting girls water polo untracked in the Gateway City. The result: the St. Louis Lions, the city\u2019s first all-girls team.<\/p>\n
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020<\/span> READY FOR A BREAKTHROUGH<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nMelanie Margalis is an Olympic relay gold medalist and a three-time relay champion at Worlds, but a podium finish in an individual event has eluded her on the world\u2019s biggest stage. After ranking No. 1 in the 400 IM and No. 3 in the shorter medley for 2020, her turn to win a medal for the United States could take place this year in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
022<\/span> PERSEVERANCE AND HARD\u00a0 WORK PAY OFF<\/strong><\/span>
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026<\/span> TAKEOFF TO TOKYO:\u00a0TARNISHED GOLD<\/strong><\/span>
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038<\/span> GOLDMINDS: JUST GO WITH THE FLOW<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHow can you control\u2014and even master\u2014your emotions? The answer is by learning to become a more resilient swimmer. Here\u2019s how…<\/p>\n
046<\/span> UP & COMERS: RICHARD POPLAWSKI<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Shoshanna Rutemiller<\/strong><\/p>\n
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010<\/span> A VOICE FOR THE SPORT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
011<\/span> DID YOU KNOW:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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