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The second night of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series Santa Clara will feature men’s and women’s finals of the 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Back, 200 Breast and 200 Free. After the Indiana post-graduate group dominated the 1500 on night one, future and current Stanford swimmers took three of the top seeds for tonight’s finals.
Katie Ledecky, in her first professional race associated with TYR, claimed the top seed in the 200 Free – as did future Cardinal Jack Levant in the men’s race. Ella Eastin will start the session off with her top seed in the 400 IM, looking for the win in this event after narrowly losing out on the victory to Melanie Margalis in Indianapolis.
Veteran Chase Kalisz will set out to keep his 400 IM win streak alive, as will Kelsi Dahlia in the 100 fly. Cal’s Andrew Seliskar leads a competitive 100 Fly men’s field after the morning heats including the likes of Caeleb Dressel and Jack Conger.
16-year-old Regan Smith and reigning Olympic-Champion Ryan Murphy hold top honors in the 200 Back while Lilly King and Miguel de Lara Ojeda did likewise in the 200 Breast.
Men’s 200 Breast
Cal’s Josh Prenot got to the wall first in a loaded men’s 200 breast final. Similarly to King, Prenot set out to an early lead of 1:02.92 halfway through the race, then held off a charging field in the end.
18-year-old and Indianapolis Champion in this event Daniel Roy out-split Prenot by over half a second on the last lap but ran out room to ultimately finish second in 2:11.08.
De Lara Ojeda, Nic Fink and Brandon Fischer all battled for the third position, turning nearly-even at the 150. De Lara Ojeda had the touch coming in at 2:13.14 to Fink’s 2:13.14 and Fischer’s 2:13.35.
Kalisz was not far behind in 2:13.59 with the third-best closing fifty in the heat. He was followed by Kevin Cordes (2:13.71), Andrew Wilson (2:14.22) and Eli Wall (2:15.00).
Event 10 Men 200 LC Meter Breaststroke
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World: W 2:06.67 1/29/2017 Ippei Watanabe, JPN
American: A 2:07.17 6/30/2016 Josh Prenot, Cal Aquatics
Pro Swim: M 2:08.95 2018 Andrew Wilson
Name Age Team Prelims Finals
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Prenot, Josh 24 California Aquat 2:13.09 2:10.15
r:+0.66 30.00 1:02.92 (32.92)
1:36.31 (33.39) 2:10.15 (33.84)
2 Roy, Daniel 18 Unattached 2:13.49 2:11.08
r:+0.64 31.37 1:04.48 (33.11)
1:37.91 (33.43) 2:11.08 (33.17)
3 De Lara Ojeda, Miguel 23 Tiger Elite Raci 2:12.84 2:13.14
r:+0.72 30.50 1:04.45 (33.95)
1:38.51 (34.06) 2:13.14 (34.63)
4 Fink, Nic 24 Athens Bulldog S 2:14.88 2:13.25
r:+0.70 29.89 1:04.08 (34.19)
1:38.67 (34.59) 2:13.25 (34.58)
5 Fischer, Brandon 29 Una LAC 2:13.79 2:13.29
r:+0.71 30.10 1:03.89 (33.79)
1:38.41 (34.52) 2:13.29 (34.88)
6 Kalisz, Chase 24 Athens Bulldog S 2:13.10 2:13.59
r:+0.76 30.70 1:04.91 (34.21)
1:39.67 (34.76) 2:13.59 (33.92)
7 Cordes, Kevin 24 Tiger Elite Raci 2:14.83 2:13.71
r:+0.70 30.20 1:04.37 (34.17)
1:38.35 (33.98) 2:13.71 (35.36)
8 Wilson, Andrew 24 Longhorn Aquatic 2:15.28 2:14.22
30.05 1:04.21 (34.16)
1:39.05 (34.84) 2:14.22 (35.17)
9 Wall, Eli 23 Swim Ontario 2:15.17 2:15.00
r:+0.77 31.13 1:05.39 (34.26)
1:40.53 (35.14) 2:15.00 (34.47)
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