{"id":504811,"date":"2022-05-03T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=504811"},"modified":"2022-05-03T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:59:15","slug":"alex-walsh-raises-the-bar-again-becomes-world-title-favorite-in-200-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alex-walsh-raises-the-bar-again-becomes-world-title-favorite-in-200-im\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Walsh Raises the Bar Again, Becomes World Title Favorite in 200 IM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex Walsh Raises the Bar Again, Becomes World Title Favorite in 200 IM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 2021 Olympic Trials final of the 200 IM, <strong>Alex Walsh<\/strong> used brilliant backstroke and breaststroke splits to surge into the lead, and that put her 50 away from qualifying for her first Olympic team. Then she faded hard, and the race came down to the wire, but Walsh touched first, two hundredths ahead of University of Virginia teammate <strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> and another two hundredths ahead of crestfallen veteran <strong>Madisyn<\/strong> <strong>Cox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Seven weeks later, Walsh again turned for freestyle with the lead in the Olympic final, and she fought to hang on every stroke as <strong>Yui<\/strong> <strong>Ohashi<\/strong>, already the gold medalist in the 400 IM, clawed back. Ohashi did pull ahead at the finish, but the race made Walsh an Olympic silver medalist.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh took that momentum and ran with it. She returned to college swimming, where she had opened her Cavaliers career as NCAA champion in the 200-yard IM in 2021, and at the 2022 national championships, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-womens-championships-alex-walsh-clobbers-american-ncaa-records-in-200-im-title-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she repeated as national titlist in her signature event while posting a stunning mark of 1:50.08, wiping eight tenths off <strong>Ella<\/strong> <strong>Eastin\u2019s<\/strong> American record<\/a>. Walsh was 1.8 seconds faster than her own winning time from the year before.<\/p>\n<p>But she had not finished above fifth in any other event at NCAAs as a freshman, her sophomore campaign saw her add titles in two events in which she rarely competed over previous seasons, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-womens-championships-alex-walsh-goes-wire-to-wire-in-400-im-triumph-becomes-fourth-fastest-performer-ever-in-new-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">400 IM<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2022-ncaa-womens-championships-alex-walsh-edges-olivia-carter-regan-smith-for-200-butterfly-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200 butterfly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh was somewhat overshadowed at NCAAs by Douglass, who also won three individual crowns while posting American records in all three events, but it was clear that she had progressed massively. The 19-year-old breakout performer from the year before had become a 20-year-old bona fide star, riding off of and building upon the confidence amassed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She showed off more evidence of that fact Saturday night in Greensboro, N.C., during the final session of the U.S. International Team Trials. Walsh had only entered two events over the first four days of the meet, but she earned a spot at World Championships in the 800 freestyle relay after finishing sixth in the 200 free, her first serious foray into that event in long course. Walsh also had placed fifth in the 100 breast behind <strong>Lilly<\/strong> <strong>King<\/strong>, <strong>Annie<\/strong> <strong>Lazor<\/strong>, <strong>Kaitlyn Dobler<\/strong> and <strong>Lydia<\/strong> <strong>Jacoby<\/strong>, all single-stroke specialists.<\/p>\n<p>In the 200 IM on the final night, Walsh was the clear favorite in a somewhat depleted field. If she could simply win, maybe finish in the 2:09-low range or even 2:09-mid, she would have taken care of business, set for the World Championships as a medal favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh didn\u2019t need to make another huge jump, post another \u201cwow\u201d swim, but she did. A dominating performance saw Walsh out-split the field on every stroke except fly, where she was just behind <strong>Beata<\/strong> <strong>Nelson<\/strong>. Unlike the finals at her previous major finals, the Olympic Trials and the Olympics, she had no one to hold off on the freestyle leg, but she showed no signs of fatigue. Instead, Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-international-team-trials-alex-walsh-breaks-u-s-open-record-in-200-im-leah-hayes-second\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touched in 2:07.84, breaking <strong>Kathleen Baker\u2019s<\/strong> impressive U.S. Open record of 2:08.32<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The time was Walsh\u2019s personal best by eight tenths. It made her the sixth-fastest performer in history and the second-fastest American, behind only <strong>Ariana<\/strong> <strong>Kukors<\/strong>\u2019 suit-aided 2:06.15 from the 2009 World Championships. It was the fastest time in the world by more than two seconds and faster than any swimmer had recorded since 2019. The time was the fastest by any swimmer not named <strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It would have won the Olympic gold medal \u2014 comfortably, by seven tenths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know I had a 2:07 in me at this meet,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cReally couldn\u2019t have been happier with how I swam it, and I think I\u2019m definitely becoming more confident in myself in that race and learning how to close it well because last summer I would really fade in the last 15 meters. I\u2019m really happy with how my endurance is looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh believes that training for and racing the 400-yard IM during the college season helped provided a huge lift for the 200 IM. \u201cI just see it as a lot more of a shorter race and a more fun race,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Anxiety about whether she will perform well in big moments? She feels much less after successful taper meets in three successive months, beginning with the ACC Championships in February and continuing through NCAAs and then Trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we figured it out,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cEvery single time I taper, I get nervous that it\u2019s not going to work, and then it works. I\u2019m really grateful that (Virginia coach) <strong>Todd\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>DeSorbo<\/strong>) kind of experimented with what\u2019s going to work, and I\u2019m really happy that we found something. I think we realized that I needed more taper than what we had originally thought. It\u2019s working for me, so I\u2019m going to keep doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s working. Last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/event\/2022\/04\/26\/default-calendar\/Phillips-66-International-Team-Trials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trials<\/a> featured brilliant swims all across the board on the women\u2019s side, including <strong>Katie Ledecky\u2019s<\/strong> 8:09 in the 800 free, <strong>Phoebe<\/strong> <strong>Bacon<\/strong> and <strong>Rhyan White<\/strong> swimming 2:05-lows in the 200 backstroke, <strong>Regan Smith<\/strong> dialing up a 57.76 in the 100 back and basically anything that teenagers <strong>Torri Huske<\/strong> and <strong>Claire<\/strong> <strong>Curzan<\/strong> did, but Walsh\u2019s final-night effort topped them all as the women\u2019s performance of the week. It was the latest notch in Walsh\u2019s rise toward preeminence.<\/p>\n<p>At every opportunity over the last year, Walsh has risen to any challenge and outperformed any reasonable expectation. 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