{"id":468805,"date":"2021-04-09T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=468805"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T19:13:25","slug":"katie-ledecky-throws-down-154-4-200-free-in-mission-viejo-to-tie-us-open-record-dressel-back-halfs-to-beat-seliskar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/katie-ledecky-throws-down-154-4-200-free-in-mission-viejo-to-tie-us-open-record-dressel-back-halfs-to-beat-seliskar\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ledecky Pops 1:54.40 200 Free in Mission Viejo to Tie US Open Record; Dressel Back-Halfs to Beat Seliskar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, the reigning Olympic champ in the 200 freestyle, swam a lifetime season best of 1:54.40 in the 200 freestyle on Friday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo, California as she broke her own meet record of 1:54.43 from 2016. Ledecky&#8217;s time is the top time in the world for 2021 as she gears up for a full event line-up for the Olympic Games. USA Swimming is using this meet in California as a test event for the athletes to get used to swimming finals in the morning &#8211; much like how the Olympics will run morning finals this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The time for Ledecky also ties the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-allison-schmitt-clocks-textile-best-american-record-to-win-200-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Open record that\u00a0<strong>Allison Schmitt\u00a0<\/strong>set at the 2012 Trials<\/a> on her way to setting the current American record at the London Games.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Ledecky, <strong>Schmitt\u00a0<\/strong>won the battle for second at 1:58.04 ahead of Cal grad\u00a0<strong>Katie McLaughlin\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.14) and\u00a0<strong>Madisyn Cox\u00a0<\/strong>(1:58.14). The American women have won the last two <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic<\/a> gold medals in the 4&#215;200 free relay and should have a formidable team led by Ledecky to make it three straight this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KHNJki1lpA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s race, sprinter\u00a0<strong>Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>swam an un-characteristic back halfed 200 free to beat the field with a 1:47.57, running down\u00a0<strong>Andrew Seliskar\u00a0<\/strong>(1:47.69) on the final 50. Dressel turned fifth at the 100 (52.7), behind Seliskar (51.9) and split a 27.1 on the third 50 to flip second (1:19.9) behind 2018 national champ Seliskar (1:19.6).<\/p>\n<p>Dressel, who is more known for his sprint seed, comes from a distance background at the University of Florida and at the Bolles School (he was a juniors meet record holder in the 200 free), came home in a 27.6 to run down Seliskar. Fellow Florida post grad\u00a0<strong>Khader Baqlah\u00a0<\/strong>was third at 1:47.93 after coming home in a 27.4. Baqlah represents Jordan internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batur Unlu<\/strong>, who finished his freshman year at Georgia Tech, was fourth at 1:48.71 ahead of Michigan&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Patrick Callan\u00a0<\/strong>(1:48.93).<\/p>\n<p>The American men certainly had to have taken note of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/evgeny-rylov-swipes-100-back-national-record-from-kolesnikov-efimova-fesikova-make-fourth-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russia&#8217;s Olympic Trials<\/a> earlier this week as they had four men under 1:46 and look to be a gold medal favorite for Tokyo this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3i2Yz30jnMs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 3  Women 200 LC Meter Freestyle<\/b>\r\n=========================================================================\r\n        World: W 1:52.98  7\/29\/2009 Federica Pellegrini, ITA\r\n     American: A 1:53.61  7\/31\/2012 Allison Schmitt, USA Olympic Team\r\n    U.S. Open: O 1:54.40  6\/25\/2012 Allison Schmitt, North Baltimore\r\n     Jr World: J 1:55.43  7\/24\/2019 Junxuan Yang, CHN\r\n     Pro Swim: P 1:54.43  2016      Katie Ledecky\r\n                 2:00.24  W-II Oly Trials Wave II\r\n                 2:01.69  W-I Oly Trials Wave I\r\n    Name            Age Team              Prelims     Finals       Points \r\n=========================================================================\r\n<b>                            === A - Final ===                            <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Katie Ledecky    24 Nation's Capital  1:55.40    1:54.40O       \r\n    r:+0.64  27.45        56.01 (28.56)\r\n        1:25.34 (29.33)     1:54.40 (29.06)\r\n  2 Allison Schmitt  30 Sun Devil Swimmi  1:58.20    1:58.04        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