2024 PRO SWIM SERIES – WESTMONT
Friday Prelims Scratch Report
Friday Prelims Warmth Sheet
It’s day three of the 2024 Westmont Professional Swim Sequence and now we have a packed preliminary session to cowl. We’ll see heats of the 200 butterfly, 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, and the 400 freestyle.
Regan Smith will contest the 200 fly and 100 again this morning, the place she is the highest seed in each occasions. For tonight’s finals session, the 2 disciplines will happen lower than half-hour aside, with the 200 fly previous the 100 again. She received these two occasions with the identical tight turnaround final yr, the place she posted instances of two:07.92 (200 fly) and 57.90 (100 again). Smith was 2nd in Thursday’s 100 fly closing right here in Westmont, registering a brand new finest time of 56.36. Thomas Heilman is ranked 1st for the boys’s 200 fly, however Zach Harting and Dare Rose are in shut pursuit.
Abbey Weitzeil is the highest seed in each the ladies’s 50 free. She received the occasion in Westmont final yr, and has been as quick as 24.57 this yr already. Jack Alexy and Caeleb Dressel might be among the many males’s 50 free frontrunners. Alexy posted a 21.85 within the 50 free yesterday and Dressel secured a person win by way of his 1st place efficiency within the 100 fly.
Ryan Murphy leads the boys’s backstroke contingent in Westmont, because the American report holder holds a 0.73 benefit over the nest closest competitor on right this moment’s warmth sheet. Lilly King is seeded virtually six seconds forward of everybody else within the ladies’s 200 breast, and may have the chance to double up on breast wins after successful Thursday’s 100m distance (1:06.68). Anton McKee may have the identical probability to brush the breast occasions, as he leads the boys’s 200 breast entry listing.
Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein, who prepare collectively on the Sandpipers of Nevada, are among the many 400 free contenders. Grimes was 2nd within the 800 free and 400 IM already, with Weinstein successful the 800 free on opening evening. Paige Madden is one other title to regulate, because the Tokyo Olympian has been having a fantastic season. The lads’s 400 free will cap off the session, the place we’ll see the likes of Kieran Smith, Drew Kibler, Aaron Shackell, and Fernando Scheffer.
WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – HEATS
World File: Zige Liu — 2:01.81 (2009)
American File: Regan Smith — 2:03.87 (2023)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Summer time McIntosh — 2:05.05 (2023)
US Open File: Regan Smith — 2:03.87 (2023)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – HEATS
World File: Kristof Milak — 1:50.34 (2022)
American File: Michael Phelps — 1:51.51 (2009)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Luca Urlando — 1:53.84 (2019)
US Open File: Michael Phelps — 1:52.20 (2008)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
WOMEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – HEATS
World File: Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 23.61 (2023)
American File: Kate Douglass (USA) – 23.91 (2024)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 24.17 (2016)
U.S Open File: Abbey Weitzeil (USA) – 24.00 (2023)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – HEATS
World File: Cesar Cielo Filho (BRA) – 20.91 (2009)
American File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.04 (2019)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.51 (2020)
U.S Open File: Caeleb Dressel (USA) – 21.04 (2021)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – HEATS
World File: Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 57.33 (2023)
American File: Regan Smith (USA) – 57.57 (2019)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Regan Smith (USA) – 57.90 (2023)
U.S Open File: Regan Smith (USA) – 57.71 (2023)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – HEATS
World File: Thomas Ceccon (ITA) – 51.60 (2022)
American File: Ryan Murphy (USA) – 51.85 (2016)
Professional Swim Sequence File: David Plummer (USA) – 52.40 (2016)
U.S Open File: Aaron Peirsol (USA) – 51.94 (2009)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – HEATS
World File: Evgeniia Chikunova (RUS) – 2:17.55 (2023)
American File: Kate Douglass (USA) – 2:19.30 (2024)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Annie Lazor (USA) – 2:20.77 (2019)
U.S Open File: Rebecca Soni (USA) – 2:20.38 (2009)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – HEATS
World File: Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 2:05.48 (2023)
American File: Josh Prenot (USA) – 2:07.17 (2016)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Jake Foster (USA) – 2:08.23 (2023)
U.S Open File: Josh Prenot (USA) – 2:07.17 (2016)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – HEATS
World File: Ariarne Titmus — 3:55.38 (2023)
American File: Katie Ledecky — 3:56.46 (2016)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Katie Ledecky — 3:57.94 (2018)
US Open File: Katie Ledecky — 3:57.94 (2018)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – HEATS
World File: Paul Biedermann — 3:40.07 (2009)
American File: Larsen Jensen — 3:42.78 (2008)
Professional Swim Sequence File: Solar Yang — 3:43.55 (2016)
US Open File: Larsen Jensen — 3:43.53 (2008)
Prime 8 Qualifiers:
