TYR Professional Swim Sequence Westmont: Shaine Casas Achieves Robust Double; Summer season McIntosh Blasts 2:04.00 200 Fly
The primary full finals session of this yr’s TYR Professional Swim Sequence noticed lots of the high U.S.-based swimmers racing lengthy course for the primary time for the reason that Paris Olympics, and the ensuing occasions have been surprisingly swift for this early stage within the lengthy course season. Simone Manuel set the tone as she blasted a mark of 53.23 to win the 100 freestyle, and Shaine Casas instantly adopted with an elite occasions in successful each the 100 free and 50 backstroke.
Later within the session, Kate Douglass swam away from world-record holder Lilly King within the 100 breaststroke, however the high swim of the night got here from Summer season McIntosh within the girls’s 200 butterfly. In an Olympic remaining rematch, McIntosh pulled away from Regan Smith to swim the eighth-fastest efficiency in historical past. The lone file within the session got here within the final A-final of the night time, when Luka Mijatovic broke his personal Nationwide Age Group file within the 15-16 boys’ 400 free.
Ladies’s 100 Freestyle
Simone Manuel spent the final Olympic cycle working her manner again after a battle with Overtraining Syndrome. She didn’t try and qualify for both the 2022 or 2023 World Championships and didn’t return near high kind till the 2024 season. She ended up qualifying for the Paris Olympics within the 50 free and on relays, and he or she departed with a pair of relay silver medals.
However following her third Olympics, Manuel is already racing nicely and near her greatest in-season occasions. Within the opening occasion of Thursday’s finals in Westmont, Manuel jumped out away from the sector within the 100 free remaining, flipping greater than six tenths forward of the sector at 25.50, and he or she had the second-quickest homecoming cut up at 27.73.
Manuel completed in 53.23, which is 2 hundredths sooner than the 53.25 she swam to complete fourth within the Olympic Trials remaining final yr. Second place went to teenager Rylee Erisman, the Junior Pan Pacs gold medalist within the occasion. Erisman touched in 53.83, narrowly behind her greatest time of 53.75. Meg Harris, the Australian who received Olympic silver within the 50 free, touched out Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey for third, 54.31 to 54.34.
Males’s 100 Freestyle
Lower than three months after capturing a brief course world title within the 200 IM amid a five-medal efficiency in Budapest, Shaine Casas led a trio of 48-second swims within the 100 free. Casas jumped on the race early to flip in 22.84, and he held sturdy down the stretch as Grant Home bore down.
The Longhorn Aquatics-trained Casas completed in 48.31, simply forward of Home’s results of 48.50. Simply behind Home was his Solar Satan coaching accomplice Mikel Schreuders, who got here in at 48.65.
Hunter Armstrong, who helped the U.S. males win gold within the 400 free relay in Paris earlier than anchoring the 400 medley relay to silver, ended up thirteenth within the occasion at 50.64.
Ladies’s 100 Breaststroke
For the higher a part of the previous decade, Lilly King has been virtually undefeated in home competitions within the 100 breaststroke, however Kate Douglass was the superior swimmer within the Westmont remaining. Douglass has change into the world’s high 200 breaststroker, securing Olympic gold in American-record time in Paris, and he or she has made inroads over 100 meters in current seasons.
Out in 31.20 and again in 35.31, Douglass had the very best splits on each ends of the occasion, and he or she got here into the wall in 1:06.51, simply two tenths behind her greatest time. King ended up second in 1:07.13, with Anita Bottazzo, a local of Italy now coaching on the College of Florida, ending up third in 1:07.32. Simply behind was the 2022 World Championships silver medalist within the occasion, Texas-trained German swimmer Anna Elendt (1:07.60).
Males’s 100 Breaststroke
Coming off a disappointing summer season through which he missed making the U.S. Olympic crew, Michael Andrew is attempting to re-establish himself within the 100 breast, an occasion the place he holds the American file and ranks No. 4 all-time at 58.14. In Westmont, Andrew led the best way by means of prelims, and he overcame a blazing begin from Michael Houlie to say the win right here.
Andrew touched in 1:00.85, 4 tenths forward of AJ Pouch’s 1:01.24. Pouch was the third-place finisher within the 200 breast at Olympic Trials. Garrett Clasen positioned third in 1:01.58 whereas Houlie light to fifth (1:02.47).
Ladies’s 50 Backstroke
An all-star area assembled within the 50 again, with 5 swimmers who’ve stood on worldwide podiums collaborating on this occasion. Every member of the group completed inside one-third of a second, however the winner was Kylie Masse, with the Canadian going out forward and by no means yielding.
Masse touched in 27.42 to complete two tenths forward of the sector. Masse, 28, has received 5 Olympic medals, and he or she was the world champion within the 50 again in 2022.
Katharine Berkoff got here in second in 27.63, similar to she did in opposition to Masse within the international remaining three years in the past. She was adopted intently by Ingrid Wilm (27.67), Regan Smith (27.68) and Rhyan White (27.75). Smith received the quick course world title within the occasion in December, however she was unable to maintain tempo right here on the front-end of a double, with the 200 fly remaining to come back.
Males’s 50 Backstroke
Barely a half-hour after triumphing within the 100 free, Shaine Casas exploded off the blocks within the 50 again remaining and by no means seemed again. Casas constructed a lead of a bodylength as he sprinted down the pool and completed in 24.23. He was only a quarter-second behind his greatest time of 24.00, a mark which ranks him No. 4 all-time.
Michael Andrew, additionally a winner Thursday night as he topped the 100 breast, earned one other top-three end together with his time of 25.10, and third went to Tommy Janton in 25.25.
Ladies’s 200 Butterfly
The highest-two finishers from the Paris Olympics raced in Westmont, however Regan Smith by no means severely challenged Summer season McIntosh on this race. As a substitute, the Canadian teenager confirmed why she has change into the world’s dominant swimmer within the race over the previous three-and-a-half years. McIntosh has already received a pair of world titles along with her Olympic gold within the occasion.
Right here, McIntosh was up by virtually a second after 50 meters and greater than two seconds on the midway level. Smith surged off every wall, however she fell off within the closing meters as McIntosh surged to the wall in 2:04.00. That point was the eighth-fastest time in historical past, the second-best of McIntosh’s profession and fewer than a second off her gold-medal-winning time of two:03.03, which was the second-fastest mark ever recorded. Certainly, McIntosh hitting that mark so early within the season may place herself for a run at Liu Zige’s outlandish world file of two:01.81.
Smith got here in second at 2:06.87, and though she was two seconds again of her greatest time, she nonetheless swam finisher than Australia’s Elizabeth Dekkers and Denmark’s Helena Rosendahl Bach swam to tie for fourth within the Olympic remaining (2:07.17). Third right here went to Rachel Klinker in 2:10.73.
Males’s 200 Butterfly
Nobody within the males’s 200 fly area was any match for Trenton Julian. The previous Cal swimmer now primarily based at Mission Viejo has represented the U.S. on this occasion on quite a few events, and he constructed a lead of greater than a second by the midway mark. Jack Dahlgren closed the hole down the stretch, however he by no means received near the 26-year-old Julian.
Julian clocked a mark of 1:56.02, with Dahlgren taking second in 1:57.35 and Patrick Branon rounding out the top-three finishers and sub-2:00 swims together with his time of 1:59.07.
Ladies’s 400 Freestyle
Brazilian swimmers led virtually your complete size of this remaining, with Maria Fernanda Costa out first after which Gabriele Roncatto Goncalves main for the center portion of the race. However Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey, coming off a third-place end earlier within the session within the 100 free, had one remaining surge to maneuver forward of Roncatto on the ultimate 50.
Harvey was again in 29.55, capping off a race through which she cut up 2:04.09 going out and a pair of:04.58 on the again 200 meters. The Canadian’s remaining mark was 4:08.67, simply forward of Roncatto’s 4:09.01. Costa positioned third in 4:11.67, and the highest American was fourth-place finisher Madi Mintenko (4:13.50).
Males’s 400 Freestyle
The final A-final of the night time went to Australia’s Sam Brief, the 2023 world champion and one among six swimmers to ever break 3:41. After ending 14-hundredths outdoors a spot on the Olympic podium, Brief kicked off his season by dominating this area by greater than one-and-a-half seconds.
Brief swam below world-record tempo by means of 300 meters, and though he by no means had critical hopes of taking down Paul Biedermann’s 2009 mark of three:40.07, he introduced the race house to complete in 3:44.83.
In the meantime, it was an thrilling race for second place behind the Aussie, with Carson Foster holding off Brazil’s Guilherme Costa, 3:46.42 to three:46.74. Costa was the fifth-place finisher within the Olympic remaining, 12-hundredths behind Brief, whereas Foster has but to noticeably pursue this occasion internationally.
Fourth went to Luka Mijatovic, with the Pleasanton Seahawks teenager decreasing his personal 15-16 Nationwide Age Group file. He clocked 3:48.95 to beat his earlier greatest time of three:49.24, which he achieved on the best way to gold on the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in August.
