U.S. Olympic Trials: Carson Foster, Gretchen Walsh, Charlie Swanson in Lane Four in Finals (Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet)

Carson Foster -- Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

U.S. Olympic Trials: Carson Foster, Gretchen Walsh, Charlie Swanson in Lane Four in Finals (Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet)

The second evening of finals, which includes Olympic selection events in the men’s 400 IM, women’s 100 butterfly and men’s 100 breaststroke, will begin at 8 p.m. Sunday evening at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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Carson Foster will try to make his first Olympic team in the men’s 400 IM after qualifying first in prelims ahead of Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland, the 2021 Olympic gold and silver medalists, respectively. Those three swimmers will be in their same positions as at the 2021 Trials, where Foster led for most of the race but faded to third down the stretch. Since then, Foster has won a pair of World Championship silvers in the 400 IM.

Gretchen Walsh set the world record in the 100 fly in Saturday’s semifinals, but she still has to secure her spot in Paris, no easy task with Torri Huske and Regan Smith swimming on either side of her. Notably, No. 4 seed Alex Shackell scratched the final to focus on the 200 free, in which she qualified for Sunday’s semifinal.

Finally, the field in the men’s 100 breaststroke is bunched up with less than a half-second between the top-eight swimmers. Charlie Swanson and Josh Matheny are the top-two seeds with world champion Nic Fink looming.

Four semifinals will take place in the session, with the women’s and men’s 200 free plus the women’s 100 breast and men’s 100 back. Olympic gold medalists Lilly King and Lydia Jacoby will swim in the breaststroke race in separate heats while Ryan Murphy and Hunter Armstrong are also split up in the backstroke. Meanwhile, contenders will be in a fight to survive in both 200 free semis, needing a top-eight finish to advance to a heat where six out of eight swimmers are likely to qualify for Paris for relay purposes.

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