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After a smooth but still dominant performance from Katie Ledecky in the women’s 800 free, the men’s race was much closer.
Zane Grothe won the men’s 800 free to kick off the men’s finals on Saturday at the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series in Santa Clara. The Mission Viejo Nadadore won the race in 7:55.14.
Tae Hwan Park of Korea was second in 7:57.68, followed by the University of Michigan’s Ricardo Vargas (7:58.81) from Mexico, Johannes Calloni (8:01.88) and True Sweetser (8:02.16) of Stanford, Nick Norman (8:02.92), Mitch D’Arrigo (8:09.30), Sean Grieshop (8:12.27) and Kevin Litherland (8:12.34).
Event 15 Men 800 LC Meter Freestyle
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World: W 7:32.12 7/29/2009 Lin Zhang, CHN
American: A 7:43.60 7/31/2013 Michael McBroom, USA
Pro Swim: M 7:49.96 2014 Michael McBroom
Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Grothe, Zane 26 Mission Viejo Na 7:50.97 7:55.14
r:+0.70 27.83 57.92 (30.09)
1:27.47 (29.55) 1:58.39 (30.92)
2:28.61 (30.22) 2:58.88 (30.27)
3:28.99 (30.11) 3:59.21 (30.22)
4:29.15 (29.94) 4:58.99 (29.84)
5:28.86 (29.87) 5:58.66 (29.80)
6:28.29 (29.63) 6:57.71 (29.42)
7:26.64 (28.93) 7:55.14 (28.50)
2 Park, Tae Hwan 28 Korea 8:01.65 7:57.68
r:+0.64 26.89 56.77 (29.88)
1:27.27 (30.50) 1:57.30 (30.03)
2:26.96 (29.66) 2:57.24 (30.28)
3:27.18 (29.94) 3:57.57 (30.39)
4:27.70 (30.13) 4:58.06 (30.36)
5:28.34 (30.28) 5:58.64 (30.30)
6:28.92 (30.28) 6:59.39 (30.47)
7:29.42 (30.03) 7:57.68 (28.26)
3 Vargas Jacobo, Ricard 20 Mexico 8:01.24 7:58.81
r:+0.67 27.93 58.04 (30.11)
1:28.52 (30.48) 1:58.86 (30.34)
2:29.23 (30.37) 2:59.42 (30.19)
3:29.56 (30.14) 3:59.58 (30.02)
4:29.69 (30.11) 4:59.69 (30.00)
5:29.75 (30.06) 5:59.68 (29.93)
6:29.72 (30.04) 6:59.78 (30.06)
7:30.02 (30.24) 7:58.81 (28.79)
4 Calloni, Johannes 18 Unattached Stanf 7:59.80 8:01.88
r:+0.73 28.14 58.08 (29.94)
1:28.36 (30.28) 1:58.51 (30.15)
2:29.01 (30.50) 2:59.31 (30.30)
3:29.68 (30.37) 4:00.08 (30.40)
4:29.61 (29.53) 5:00.77 (31.16)
5:31.54 (30.77) 6:02.81 (31.27)
6:33.28 (30.47) 7:03.70 (30.42)
7:33.56 (29.86) 8:01.88 (28.32)
5 Sweetser, True 20 Unattached Stanf 7:53.32 8:02.16
r:+0.70 28.41 58.39 (29.98)
1:28.76 (30.37) 1:59.04 (30.28)
2:29.73 (30.69) 3:00.14 (30.41)
3:30.92 (30.78) 4:01.61 (30.69)
4:32.58 (30.97) 5:03.16 (30.58)
5:33.76 (30.60) 6:03.86 (30.10)
6:34.27 (30.41) 7:04.09 (29.82)
7:34.16 (30.07) 8:02.16 (28.00)
6 Norman, Nick 21 California Aquat 8:14.75 8:02.92
r:+0.70 27.29 56.30 (29.01)
1:26.15 (29.85) 1:55.81 (29.66)
2:26.09 (30.28) 2:56.21 (30.12)
3:26.92 (30.71) 3:57.51 (30.59)
4:28.45 (30.94) 4:59.04 (30.59)
5:29.92 (30.88) 6:00.57 (30.65)
6:31.67 (31.10) 7:02.46 (30.79)
7:33.32 (30.86) 8:02.92 (29.60)
7 D'Arrigo, Mitch 23 Gator Swim Club 8:13.63 8:09.30
r:+0.73 27.63 57.15 (29.52)
1:27.32 (30.17) 1:57.74 (30.42)
2:28.74 (31.00) 2:59.47 (30.73)
3:30.21 (30.74) 4:01.00 (30.79)
4:32.18 (31.18) 5:03.24 (31.06)
5:34.52 (31.28) 6:05.64 (31.12)
6:36.45 (30.81) 7:07.27 (30.82)
7:38.25 (30.98) 8:09.30 (31.05)
8 Grieshop, Sean 19 California Aquat 8:13.43 8:12.27
r:+0.65 28.11 57.92 (29.81)
1:28.98 (31.06) 1:59.87 (30.89)
2:30.95 (31.08) 3:01.98 (31.03)
3:33.12 (31.14) 4:04.26 (31.14)
4:35.57 (31.31) 5:06.81 (31.24)
5:38.07 (31.26) 6:09.24 (31.17)
6:40.71 (31.47) 7:11.58 (30.87)
7:42.44 (30.86) 8:12.27 (29.83)
9 Litherland, Kevin 22 Dynamo Swim Club 8:03.19 8:12.34
r:+0.66 27.99 58.38 (30.39)
1:29.08 (30.70) 1:59.73 (30.65)
2:30.62 (30.89) 3:01.55 (30.93)
3:32.73 (31.18) 4:04.06 (31.33)
4:35.25 (31.19) 5:06.57 (31.32)
5:38.03 (31.46) 6:09.27 (31.24)
6:40.66 (31.39) 7:11.91 (31.25)
7:42.77 (30.86) 8:12.34 (29.57)
