Ryan Murphy Leaps To 2nd in World in 200 Back With 1:54.94
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Ryan Murphy uncorked the second-fastest men’s 200-meter back in the world during the B final at the 2016 Canadian Trials.
Competing in the consolation heat as part of the meet’s open international setting, Murphy sizzled with a 1:54.94 for the B final win. That’s just behind Xu Jiayu’s 1:54.79 to stand second in the world as Murphy leapt Mitch Larkin’s 1:55.08 into second in the world.
Jacob Pebley, meanwhile, placed second in 1:56.40 to move to sixth in the world rankings.
Jeremy Gagne took a distant third with a time of 2:04.87.
=== B - Final === 11 *Murphy, Ryan F 95 CAL-PC 1:58.09 1:54.94 923 r:+0.57 27.34 56.46 (29.12) 1:25.44 (28.98) 1:54.94 (29.50) 12 *Pebley, Jacob 93 CAL-PC 1:56.93 1:56.40 888 r:+0.64 27.83 57.08 (29.25) 1:26.87 (29.79) 1:56.40 (29.53) 13 Gagné, Jérémy 95 Rouge et Or 2:04.88 2:04.87 720 r:+0.57 28.73 1:00.15 (31.42) 1:32.21 (32.06) 2:04.87 (32.66) 14 Fox, Matthew 97 OAK 2:05.38 2:05.12 715 r:+0.64 29.29 1:01.11 (31.82) 1:33.33 (32.22) 2:05.12 (31.79) 15 Côté-Leduc, Fél 94 Blue Machine 2:06.46 2:05.68 706 r:+0.56 29.51 1:01.68 (32.17) 1:34.00 (32.32) 2:05.68 (31.68) 15 Kay, Philip T 99 MAC 2:06.27 2:05.68 706 r:+0.58 29.29 1:00.75 (31.46) 1:33.25 (32.50) 2:05.68 (32.43) 17 Duke, Nicolas 98 Chena Swim Club 2:06.10 2:06.87 686 r:+0.70 29.81 1:01.38 (31.57) 1:34.06 (32.68) 2:06.87 (32.81) 18 *Nguyen, Thomas 92 SA-GA 2:05.22 2:07.58 675 r:+0.57 28.62 1:00.31 (31.69) 1:34.14 (33.83) 2:07.58 (33.44) 19 Fan, Hau-Li 97 UBCDS 2:05.59 2:07.98 668 r:+0.72 30.01 1:02.55 (32.54) 1:35.35 (32.80) 2:07.98 (32.63) 20 Kawaguchi, Tosh 97 UNCAN 2:06.20 2:09.67 642 r:+0.68 29.80 1:02.60 (32.80) 1:35.97 (33.37) 2:09.67 (33.70)
They shouldn’t be putting him in the B final.
This is common practice during Olympic Trials for other countries. Natives swim in A finals.
It’s just how it works at an open national championship that also serves as a team selection trials. He’s allowed to go up there and get some swims in, but he can’t bump a Canadian from having a shot at the Canadian team or national championship.
Ryan Murphy you swim too?
Nikola Acin
Beast
Ryan, my sweet sweet neighbor. We are cheering you on!
Joshua someone did it
How old?