{"id":599164,"date":"2024-11-08T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=599164"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T03:18:16","slug":"ilya-kharun-blasts-18-6-50-free-44-0-100-fly-as-arizona-state-crushes-bay-area-schools-torri-huske-leads-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ilya-kharun-blasts-18-6-50-free-44-0-100-fly-as-arizona-state-crushes-bay-area-schools-torri-huske-leads-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Kharun Blasts 18.6 50 Free, 44.0 100 Fly as Arizona State Crushes Bay Area Schools; Torri Huske Leads Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilya Kharun Blasts 18.6 50 Free, 44.0 100 Fly as Arizona State Crushes Bay Area Schools; Torri Huske Leads Stanford<\/strong><\/p>\n

Day two of competition in Tempe, Ariz., between the hosting Sun Devils and their former Pac-12 rivals Cal and Stanford saw the reigning national champions pull even further ahead while Stanford’s women put on a similar show.<\/p>\n

And just like on the first day of competition<\/a>, it was the biggest names for these schools starring, with Ilya Kharun<\/strong> and\u00a0Torri Huske<\/strong> each grabbing the top spot in two individual events apiece, at times achieving their success outside their primary races.<\/p>\n

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Kharun began his day with a mark of 18.67 in the 50 free, more than a half-second clear of a field full of elite sprinters, which included Cal’s Jack Alexy<\/strong> (19.24), ASU’s Kulow (19.28) and Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger<\/strong> (19.34).<\/p>\n

The Canadian sophomore was back at ivt two events later as he won the 100 butterfly in 44.01, faster than the 44.26 he clocked to the fourth in the event at last year’s NCAA Championships. Kharun was the Olympic bronze medalist in the meters version of this event at the Paris Games, and here, he left in the dust two previous international-medal winners in this event, Stanford’s Andrei Minakov <\/strong>(45.47) and Cal’s Dare Rose<\/strong> (45.73).<\/p>\n

The Sun Devil men opened day two with a dominant effort in the 800 freestyle relay, with\u00a0Patrick Sammon<\/strong>,\u00a0Filip Senc-Samardzic<\/strong>,\u00a0Tiago Behar<\/strong> and\u00a0Jonny Kulow<\/strong> coming in at 6:13.18. Sammon’s leadoff of 1:32.86 tied Minakov for the quickest of the race, and the middle legs built a lead before Kulow held off a strong finish from Stanford’s\u00a0Henry McFadden<\/strong> (1:32.01).<\/p>\n

ASU then finished the day as they started, with the team of Kharun,\u00a0Tommy Palmer<\/strong>,\u00a0Sammon and Kulow clocking 1:14.35 in the 200 free relay. Amazingly, Kharun’s third swim of the day brought an even quicker time of 18.62, and Kulow came home in 18.24.<\/p>\n

Cal’s\u00a0Yamato Okadome<\/strong> picked up a win in the 200 breaststroke, touching in 1:53.31 to take down Stanford’s\u00a0Ron Polonsky<\/strong> (1:53.51) and the man who led for most of the race, ASU’s\u00a0Andy Dobrzanski<\/strong> (1:54.03).<\/p>\n

The Golden Bears made it back-to-back event wins when Keaton Jones<\/strong> won the 200 backstroke in 1:41.68. The Olympic finalist in the long-course version of the event was well behind ASU’s\u00a0Lucien Vergnes<\/strong> and Cal teammate\u00a0Ziyad Saleem<\/strong> almost the entire race, but a 25.60 final split helped Jones get to the wall a half-second ahead.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Jett<\/strong> scored first place in the 500 free in 4:18.08, but he fell to second in the 200 IM after leading at the halfway point. In that medley race, Stanford’s\u00a0Ron Polonsky<\/strong> used a sizzling breaststroke leg to pick up the only win of the day for his men’s team in 1:43.76.<\/p>\n