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Brazil’s Joao Gomes clipped Josh Prenot for the men’s 100-meter breaststroke title at the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series Orlando.
Gomes touched out Prenot at the all, 1:00.64 to 1:00.66, in what proved to be an exciting finish throughout the finale.
Gomes had been faster this morning with a 1:00.55, but settled for the victory tonight. Prenot moved to 13th in the world with his swim.
Brazil’s Felipe Lima wound up third in 1:00.73, while Missouri’s Sam Tierney was also in the mix with a fourth-place 1:00.96.
Georgia’s Nic Fink (1:01.61), California’s Chuck Katis (1:02.74) and Indie’s Michael Andrew (1:03.70) were also in the championship heat.
Badger’s Cody Miller drew a disqualification. He initially had won the race in a seventh-ranked 59.94, but was disqualified for too many dolphin kicks.
California’s Sean Mahoney won the B final in 1:02.91 with RSA’s Jared Pike second in 1:02.95.
=== A - Final ===
1 Gomes, Joao 30 Brazil-US 1:00.55 1:00.64 OLY
28.44 1:00.64 (32.20)
2 Prenot, Josh 22 Unattached 1:00.95 1:00.66 OLY
28.52 1:00.66 (32.14)
3 Lima, Felipe 30 Brazil-US 1:01.96 1:00.73 OLY
28.17 1:00.73 (32.56)
4 Tierney, Sam 22 U. of Missouri-M 1:02.17 1:00.96 OLY
28.74 1:00.96 (32.22)
5 Fink, Nic 22 Athens Bulldog S 1:01.76 1:01.61 OLY
28.61 1:01.61 (33.00)
6 Katis, Chuck 23 California Aquat 1:02.49 1:02.74 OLY
29.01 1:02.74 (33.73)
7 Andrew, Michael 16 Indie Swimming-M 1:02.37 1:03.70 NATS
29.01 1:03.70 (34.69)
=== B - Final ===
9 Mahoney, Sean 27 California Aquat 1:02.90 1:02.91 OLY
29.58 1:02.91 (33.33)
10 Pike, Jared 24 Southern Dolphin 1:03.53 1:02.95 OLY
29.43 1:02.95 (33.52)
11 Lobanov, Anton 23 Unattached-FG 1:02.70 1:03.10 OLY
29.69 1:03.10 (33.41)
12 Dahlia, Thomas 26 Cardinal Aquatic 1:03.45 1:03.16 OLY
29.73 1:03.16 (33.43)
13 Zito, Nicholas 21 West Swim Club-I 1:04.31 1:03.28 OLY
29.60 1:03.28 (33.68)
14 Ritter, Adam 31 Unattached-FL 1:02.93 1:03.43 OLY
30.03 1:03.43 (33.40)
15 Capitaine, Thib 22 Unattached-MD 1:03.93 1:03.59 OLY
30.07 1:03.59 (33.52)
16 Chan Chin Wah, 20 Unattached 1:04.54 1:05.13 JRS
30.61 1:05.13 (34.52)
=== A - Final ===
-- Miller, Cody 24 Badger Swim Club 1:00.53 DQ
28.11 DQ (31.83)
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Interesting that Prenit would opt out of swimming @. in- going PAC- 12s to swim here…unless he is gonna fly back to Seattle tonite and swim 100 breast @. conference meet Friday.
Going east to west he gains three hours but I doubt there’s a non- stop flight between the cities and if did that he’d be a tired camper Friday!