{"id":478513,"date":"2021-06-18T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=478513"},"modified":"2021-06-19T07:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:08:01","slug":"u-s-olympic-trials-golden-double-for-cal-with-ryan-murphy-bryce-mefford-in-200-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-golden-double-for-cal-with-ryan-murphy-bryce-mefford-in-200-back\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympic Trials: Golden Double for Cal with Ryan Murphy, Bryce Mefford in 200 Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. Olympic Trials: Golden Double for Cal with Ryan Murphy, Bryce Mefford in 200 Back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take your pick of the metric \u2013 three of the top eight times in the world this season, six consecutive Olympic gold medals \u2013 and the United States is backstroke country on the men\u2019s side. No matter who fills the spots, the light of American backstroke has remained undimmed for more than a generation dating back to the 1996 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In both events this year, given the youth behind him, that legacy remains on the shoulders of <strong>Ryan Murphy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday night, he didn\u2019t seem burdened by any extra weight. Murphy was a bodylength clear of the field at the 150-meter wall, and though he got a push from <strong>Bryce Mefford,<\/strong> he was still comfortably ahead of the field in 1:54.20. It\u2019s eight-hundredths shy of his time from the 2019 World Championships, but it applies pressure on the world-leading time of <strong>Evgeny Rylov<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely feel like I put in the work,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cI put in the work. I worked really hard. I worked better than I have any other year. I\u2019m excited to get that double taper going.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stream.nbcolympics.com\/swimming-us-trials-day-6-finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live Stream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2021\/us-olympic-team-trials-wave-ii-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/results\/pdf\/2021-us-olympic-trials-day-six-finals-heat-sheets-day-6-usa-senior-national-2021-06-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heat Sheets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though he didn\u2019t don a golden cap in the final, Murphy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-ryan-murphy-crushes-last-50-to-top-200-back-semis-four-cal-swimmers-into-final\/\">one of four University of California swimmers in the final<\/a>. He\u2019ll be one of the two headed to Tokyo, with Mefford closing strong to get to the wall in 1:54.79. It\u2019s a cut of nearly two seconds from his best time and the fifth-fastest time in the world, part of a select sub-1:55 crew.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_478293\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478293\" data-attachment-id=\"478293\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-golden-double-for-cal-with-ryan-murphy-bryce-mefford-in-200-back\/ryan-murphy-85\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ryan-murphy-_PB67389-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter H. 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Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great swim. I felt great during it,\u201d Mefford said. \u201cEvery time I went by that board, I was looking at it, trying to see where I was. It was a little scary but I was happy to be racing with my Cal brothers and my family in the stands and my Cal family in the stands was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of select crews, the Cal backstroke group again proved itself pretty special. Mefford was the only other representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-veteran-ryan-murphy-newcomer-hunter-armstrong-punch-100-back-tickets\/\">in the 100 back final<\/a> that Murphy won, but both <strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Carr<\/strong> joined them in the 200 back final. Lasco was fifth, with Carr eighth.<\/p>\n<p>All train together under <strong>Dave Durden,<\/strong> and their differing approaches to the backstroke races accentuate each other\u2019s strengths and help the others improve weak spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s it right there. You just watched it,\u201d Mefford said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot more that are involved in it than just these four guys. \u2026 It\u2019s a brutal way to practice and train every day, but it obviously pays off for all four guys that were in that final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s certainly a level of comfortability when you\u2019re going against guys that you race in practice,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cWe have our backstroke group over two lanes, so I\u2019ll get each of those guys on a day-in, day-out basis. \u2026 Those guys are really good. Thank god they\u2019re going fast because I would have been in trouble if they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin Katz<\/strong> finished third in 1:55.86. He had entered with a slightly quicker seed time of 1:55.57 that had been seventh in the world, though it wasn\u2019t quicker than Mefford put up in the final. Ditto <strong>Shaine Casas,<\/strong> who went 1:57.64 in the final. His best time of 1:55.79 was the eighth-fastest in the world entering the swim.<\/p>\n<p>Mefford was fourth in the 100 back earlier this week. He said he drew on the experience to inform his swim Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned I think a lot from that 100,\u201d Mefford said. \u201cThat 100 has always been a struggle for me because I have a slower tempo and more of a stronger stroke. Murph had talked quite a bit to Dave about working in tempo trainers and stuff. I think that kind of helped my 100 back and my preparation for my 200 back, having a little bit higher of a tempo through it and keeping that tempo through the whole 200.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as that backstroke legacy, Murphy has often said \u2013 and repeated again Friday \u2013 that he\u2019s not burdened by it. His competitiveness is already sufficiently high anyway that there\u2019s no room to go up.<\/p>\n<p>But after watching <strong>Hunter Armstrong<\/strong> become the latest in a long line of first-time backstroke Olympians this week, Mefford is happy to add his name to the list. And he\u2019s ready for the challenge that brings in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy because this is a younger event and guys are learning,\u201d Mefford said. \u201c\u2026 These are young guys and they\u2019re coming up strong and they\u2019re here to represent Team USA and here to show as he next Ryan Murphy or the next <strong>Jacob Pebley<\/strong>, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/an-emotional-farewell-for-matt-grevers-whose-career-has-been-a-warm-embrace-all-the-way-through\/\">guys that are moving on<\/a> (<strong>Matt<\/strong>) <strong>Grevers<\/strong>, they\u2019re going to move up to fill in those spots, and it\u2019s definitely nice to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Men\u2019s 200 Backstroke Results<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Ryan Murphy, 1:54.20<\/li>\n<li>Bryce Mefford, 1:54.79<\/li>\n<li>Austin Katz, 1:55.86<\/li>\n<li>Hunter Tapp, 1:56.76<\/li>\n<li>Destin Lasco, 1:56.98<\/li>\n<li>Shaine Casas, 1:57.64<\/li>\n<li>Jack Aikins, 1:57.90<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Carr, 1:58.76<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>FINA World Rankings<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Evgeny Rylov, RUS, 1:53.23<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Murphy, USA, 1:54.12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mitch Larkin, AUS, 1:54.38<\/li>\n<li>Luke Greenbank, GBR, 1:54.43<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryce Mefford, USA, 1:54.79<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Xu Jiayu, CHN, 1:55.24<\/li>\n<li>Ryosuke Irie, JPN, 1:55.52<\/li>\n<li>Austin Katz, USA, 1:55.57<\/li>\n<li>Shaine Casas, USA, 1:55.79<\/li>\n<li>Keita Sunama, LPN, 1:56.06<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Olympic Trials: Golden Double for Cal with Ryan Murphy, Bryce Mefford in 200 Back Take your pick of the metric \u2013 three of the top eight times in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":476908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[41560,49727,41709,25942,71204,25843,12011,25269,72300],"class_list":["post-478513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-austin-katz","tag-bryce-mefford","tag-daniel-carr","tag-destin-lasco","tag-hunter-armstrong","tag-jacob-pebley","tag-matt-grevers","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-shaine-casas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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