{"id":582956,"date":"2024-03-30T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=582956"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T00:26:48","slug":"ncaa-mens-championships-ilya-kharun-edges-dare-rose-in-epic-200-butterfly-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-ilya-kharun-edges-dare-rose-in-epic-200-butterfly-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men’s Championships: Ilya Kharun Edges Dare Rose in Epic 200 Butterfly Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Men’s Championships: Ilya Kharun Edges Dare Rose in Epic 200 Butterfly Finish<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 200 butterfly was expected to be a battle and it lived up to the hype.<\/p>\n

In one of the few races not to be a record-breaker, it was perhaps the closest race outside the 50.<\/p>\n

Arizona State freshman Ilya Kharun<\/strong> came away with the victory at 1:38.26 after a stunning surge in the final 15 yards to overtake Cal’s Dare Rose<\/strong> (1:38.61).<\/p>\n

“I felt like I had to win it for my team – and I just love winning,” Kharun said. “There is definitely a lot of pressure, but you have to think of it as another meet and doing it for your team. We knew the points throughout the meet mattered. I had to go out and stay ahead of the boys. I knew I had a pretty good back-half, and that I could hold them off.”<\/p>\n

Kharun was at 21.71 to lead after the first 50.<\/p>\n

Rose took over the lead at 46.84 at the halfway point.<\/p>\n

At the 150, Rose still was barely ahead of Kharun and kept the lead off the final turn, but in a late burst of speed, Kharun took the lead in the final 15 yards to earn the title in 1:38.26, just fourth tenths of a second ahead of Rose.<\/p>\n

NC State’s Aiden Hayes<\/strong> finished third in 1:39.16, followed by Indiana’s Tomer Frankel<\/strong> (1:39.35), Cal’s Gabriel Jett (1:39.72), NC State’s Noah Bowers<\/strong> (1:39.94) and Michigan’s Gal Groumi<\/strong> (1:40.05).<\/p>\n

Indiana’s Brendan Burns<\/strong> made it back to the A final in both of his events of the night, impressively finishing his career as an All-American in both the 200 backstroke and 200 fly in the same session.<\/p>\n

He finished eighth in the 200 fly (1:41.73).<\/p>\n

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