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By Phillip Whitten
ATLANTA, Ga. March 23. THE 200 IM figured to be an exciting race …and it lived up to expectations.
Actually, it was two races in one: Ryan Lochte vs. Michael Phelps’ American record (1:41.30); and the rest of the superb field battling for second place.
Lochte was ahead of Phelps’ pace the entire way as Phelps, a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Michigan cheered him on.
At the end of the fly, Lochte’s margin was a scant 3-hundredths of a second, 22.19 to 22.22. But he moved well ahead of Phelps’ pace on the backstroke with an incredible backstroke split of 24.25. Turning at the halfway mark, he was 99-hundredths of a second up on Phelps.
But the breaststroke is Lochte’s weak stroke, while Phelps has a strong breaststroke.
No matter. The Florida senior extended his margin to 1.12 seconds with a 29.81 second split. Did I say that was his “weak” stroke?
With the packed crowd cheering him on, Lochte powered home in 24.30 to clock an amazing 1:40.55, destroying Phelps’ American record and his own NCAA mark (1:41.71), set last year.
In the other race, Arizona’s Adam Ritter clocked 1:44.20 to lead four swimmers with 1:44s to the wall. Auburn’s Eric Shanteau and James Wike were third and fourth while Arizona’s Dave Rollins was fifth. Lochte’s Florida teammate, freshman Brad Alley, finished sixth.
Event 3 Men 200 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 1:41.71 2005 Ryan Lochte, Florida
American: A 1:41.30 2006 Michael Phelps, Club Wolverine
US Open: O 1:41.30 2006 Michael Phelps, Club Wolverine
GTAC Pool: P 1:43.32 3/23/2006 Ryan Lochte, FLORIDA
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship ===
1 Lochte, Ryan SR Florida 1:43.32 1:40.55A 20
22.19 46.44 (24.25)
1:16.25 (29.81) 1:40.55 (24.30)
2 Ritter, Adam SO Arizona 1:44.15 1:44.20 17
22.60 48.74 (26.14)
1:19.29 (30.55) 1:44.20 (24.91)
3 Shanteau, Eric SR Auburn 1:44.37 1:44.24 16
23.16 49.36 (26.20)
1:19.23 (29.87) 1:44.24 (25.01)
4 Wike, James JR Auburn 1:44.83 1:44.37 15
22.75 48.88 (26.13)
1:18.93 (30.05) 1:44.37 (25.44)
5 Rollins, Dave SR Arizona 1:44.93 1:44.75 14
23.20 50.07 (26.87)
1:19.34 (29.27) 1:44.75 (25.41)
6 Ally, Bradley FR Florida 1:45.23 1:45.16 13
22.88 49.22 (26.34)
1:19.48 (30.26) 1:45.16 (25.68)
7 Cass, Nate FR Stanford 1:45.36 1:45.84 12
23.35 49.59 (26.24)
1:19.71 (30.12) 1:45.84 (26.13)
8 Newman, Keenan SO Stanford 1:45.53 1:47.73 11
23.59 50.93 (27.34)
1:21.69 (30.76) 1:47.73 (26.04)
=== Consolation ===
9 Stovall, Gil SO Georgia 1:46.19 1:45.83 9
22.61 49.30 (26.69)
1:21.65 (32.35) 1:45.83 (24.18)
10 Stephens, Mark SR Stanford 1:46.30 1:45.91 7
23.03 50.43 (27.40)
1:20.61 (30.18) 1:45.91 (25.30)
11 Salatta, Lucas FR Florida 1:45.77 1:46.04 6
23.06 49.35 (26.29)
1:21.42 (32.07) 1:46.04 (24.62)
12 Cady, Kurt SR Auburn 1:46.47 1:46.16 5
23.03 50.27 (27.24)
1:21.19 (30.92) 1:46.16 (24.97)
13 Van Wie, Doug SR Auburn 1:45.88 1:46.21 4
23.12 49.64 (26.52)
1:21.40 (31.76) 1:46.21 (24.81)
14 Molina, Miguel SR Cal. Berkeley 1:46.25 1:46.60 3
23.77 50.77 (27.00)
1:21.65 (30.88) 1:46.60 (24.95)
15 Mitchell, Adam SR Minnesota 1:46.54 1:46.89 2
23.19 50.24 (27.05)
1:21.79 (31.55) 1:46.89 (25.10)
16 Oriwol, Tobias SR Stanford 1:45.67 1:47.99 1
23.07 50.24 (27.17)
1:21.65 (31.41) 1:47.99 (26.34)
=== Preliminaries ===
17 Alexandrov, Mike JR Northwestern 1:46.63
18 Mellors, Pat SO Virginia 1:46.67
19 Clark, Ian JR Southern Method. 1:47.07
20 Zoldak, Krzysztof SO Pacific 1:47.14
21 Rathgeber, Geoff SO Harvard 1:47.15
22 Dauw, Casey SR Tennessee 1:47.17
23 King, Nathan JR Ohio State 1:47.22
24 Sun, Hongzhe JR Stanford 1:47.35
25 McDermott, Caleb SO Texas 1:47.36
26 Connell, Rory SO Auburn 1:47.37
27 Donaldson, David JR Texas 1:47.42
28 Schneider, Joey JR Auburn 1:47.56
29 Hetland, Alex SO Southern Method. 1:47.58
30 Vayo, Louis SO Cal. Berkeley 1:47.93
30 Osborne, Sean JR Auburn 1:47.93
32 Eckert, Mark SO Cal. Berkeley 1:47.99
33 Gloeckner, Julius FR Louisiana State 1:48.15
34 Manley, Steven SR Kentucky 1:48.37
35 Nevo, Gal FR Arizona 1:48.52
36 Hasbani, Meir JR Princeton 1:49.29
37 Maire, Romain SO Purdue 1:49.31
38 Johnson, Mark JR Auburn 1:49.60
39 Nead, Kevin SO Florida 1:49.64
40 Murry, Steven FR Indiana 1:49.95
40 Kornfeld, Paul FR Stanford 1:49.95
42 Cormier, Kyle SO South Carolina 1:50.04
43 Marmolejo, Pablo SO West Virginia 1:50.11
44 Pogioli, Giordan SR Purdue 1:50.46
45 Nuess, CJ SO Arizona 1:50.89
46 O'Neil, Patrick JR Cal. Berkeley 1:51.90