Michael Phelps Continues 200 Fly Reign With Top Time In Semi-Finals

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Men’s 200 Fly Semi-Finals:

World Record holder in the 200 fly and the reigning Olympic silver medalist Michael Phelps continued to demonstrate why he is the Greatest Olympian of All Time (GOAT) leaping from eighteenth to sixth in the world rankings with a final time of 1:55.17. Phelps will maintain his spot as the top seed going into tomorrow night’s final.

Georgia Bulldawg Pace Clark clocked a 1:56.27 from the first heat of semi-finals to place himself in the middle of the pool with Phelps for tomorrow night’s final.

Tom Shields turned in a 1:56.35 to grab the third place seed in tomorrow’s final, while Phelps’ teammate, and newly minted Olympian, Chase Kalisz set himself up for a potential second event in Rio with a time of 1:56.48.

Fellow dawg Gunnar Bentz grabbed his second fifth-place finish of the day with a 1:56.82, just ahead of Zach Harting’s 1:56.99.

Jack Conger (1:57.02) and Andrew Seliskar (1:57.10) rounded out tomorrow night’s qualifiers.

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Eric

8 years ago

Phelps is the reigning *Silver* medalist.