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He somehow managed to set two.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Sapp clocked in at 56.10 seconds in the 100 fly to knock down the American record. He garnered a second national record with his opening 50-meter split of 26.15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly done, Sapp also set an American record in the 200 individual medley at 2:17.44.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy times were really good so I was really happy with that,\u201d Sapp said. \u201cI did great this weekend. I was proud of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/anastasia-pagoniss-world-records-headline-day-2-of-u-s-paralympic-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Pagonis\u2019s World Records Headline Day 2 of U.S. Paralympic Trials<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paralympic-trials-gia-pergolini-jessica-long-mallory-weggemann-shine-on-first-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paralympic Trials: Gia Pergolini, Jessica Long, Mallory Weggemann Shine on First Night<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sapp has World Championships medals in 2017 and 2019, but Tokyo will mark his Paralympic debut.<\/p>\n<p>Sapp had plenty of company in record-breaking on the final day of Paralympic Trials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/News\/2021\/June\/20\/Swimmers-Close-Out-Paralympic-Trials-With-Record-Setting-Performances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Sunday in Minneapolis<\/a>. <strong>Anastasia Pagonis<\/strong> took down two more American marks, going 2:46.81 to claim the SM11 200 IM and 31.17 for the S11 50 freestyle record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zach Shattuck<\/strong> got his third record of the meet with a time of 2:50.96 to win the SM6 200 IM. <strong>David Abrahams<\/strong> added to his record haul in the SM13 200 IM, erasing the record in prelims and lowering it to 2:14.68 in finals. He added the 100 fly record in 1:00.15. Likewise, <strong>Jamal Hill<\/strong> twice set records Sunday in the S9 50 free, ending with a time of 25.34. <strong>Ellie Marks<\/strong> set the women\u2019s S6 50 free record at 24.52.<\/p>\n<p>The American team for the 2021 Paralympics will be announced Monday. That makes for a short wait for swimmers like Lawrence Sapp, looking to make it to the Paralympic stage for the first time in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be my first time at the Games,\u201d Sapp said. \u201cI feel ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Sapp Sets Three American Records in Two Events to Close Paralympic Team Trials Lawrence Sapp didn\u2019t just set an American record in the men\u2019s S14 100-meter butterfly at U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":448010,"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":[62076,7],"tags":[125704,128790,75522,61920,104001,67402,12114,124933,57929],"class_list":["post-479255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paralympics","category-usa","tag-2021-paralympics","tag-anastasia-pagonis","tag-david-abrahams","tag-ellie-marks","tag-jamal-hill","tag-lawrence-sapp","tag-paralympic-games","tag-tokyo-paralympics","tag-u-s-paralympic-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Lawrence Sapp Sets Three American Records at Paralympic Team Trials<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lawrence Sapp didn\u2019t just set an American record in the men\u2019s S14 100-meter butterfly at U.S. Paralympic Trials. 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