Kevin Cordes Picks Up Close Win in Men’s 100 Breast in Santa Clara
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The second men’s event of the evening proved to be a close one as well. 2016 Olympian Kevin Cordes got his hand on the wall first in the men’s 100 breast, touching in a time of 1:00.61. Cordes was just ahead of Georgia’s Nicolas Fink, who placed second in 1:00.70.
Michael Andrew, representing the Race Pace Club, was third in 1:01.46. Longhorn’s Will Licon was just behind in 1:01.58 for fourth place.
Mexico’s Miguel De Lara Ojeda finished in fifth place in 1:01.83. He just out touched Carlos Claverie of Cardinal Aquatics, who claimed sixth place in 1:01.86.
Seventh place went to King’s Daniel Roy in 1:02.53. Stanford’s Hank Poppe picked up eighth in 1:03.34, while Cal-Berkeley’s Connor Poppe rounded out the A final in 1:03.38.
Event 22 Men 100 LC Meter Breaststroke ================================================================== Name Age Team Prelims Finals ================================================================== === A - Final === 1 Cordes, Kevin W 23 Unattached-SE- 1:01.08 1:00.61 28.39 1:00.61 (32.22) 2 Fink, Nicolas K 23 Georgia-GA- 1:01.89 1:00.70 28.67 1:00.70 (32.03) 3 Andrew, Michael C 18 Race Pace Club-M 1:01.80 1:01.46 28.76 1:01.46 (32.70) 4 Licon, Will A 22 Longhorn Aquatic 1:02.22 1:01.58 29.32 1:01.58 (32.26) 5 De Lara Ojeda, Miguel 22 Mexico- 1:01.67 1:01.83 28.57 1:01.83 (33.26) 6 Claverie, Carlos E 20 Cardinal Aquatic 1:01.57 1:01.86 29.11 1:01.86 (32.75) 7 Roy, Daniel J 17 King Aquatic Clu 1:03.24 1:02.53 29.29 1:02.53 (33.24) 8 Poppe, Hank H 18 Un-Stanford-PC- 1:03.19 1:03.34 30.33 1:03.34 (33.01) 9 Hoppe, Connor L 21 Cal-PC- 1:02.87 1:03.38 29.25 1:03.38 (34.13)