NCAA Males’s Championships: Josh Zuchowski Claims Three-Means 200 Again Swim-Off by .01
As if a three-way swim-off wasn’t entertaining sufficient, the end Saturday morning within the males’s 200 backstroke was a thriller.
Stanford’s Josh Zuchowski rallied previous Cornelius Jahn of Ohio State within the ultimate meters, successful by .01 seconds. Zuchowski went 1:40.08 to edge Jahn. The third participant, Kyle Peck of Texas, went 1:40.58 to cap the Saturday morning prelims session.
The three swimmers had tied for sixteenth in prelims, all going 1:39.61. They had been all slower within the swim-off, totally different than Friday’s 100 again swimoff.
The splits:
Occasion 116 Males 200 Yard Backstroke Swim-off
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Identify Yr College Seed Finals Factors
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1 Zuchowski, Josh JR Stanford 1:39.61 1:40.08
r:+0.72 23.93 49.57 (25.64)
1:15.70 (26.13) 1:40.08 (24.38)
2 Jahn, Cornelius FR OSU 1:39.61 1:40.09
r:+0.88 23.63 48.93 (25.30)
1:14.69 (25.76) 1:40.09 (25.40)
3 Peck, Kyle FR Texas 1:39.61 1:40.58
r:+0.67 24.07 49.89 (25.82)
1:15.60 (25.71) 1:40.58 (24.98)
Jahn turned in 48.93, up by .64 on Zuchowski and almost a second on Peck. Jahn stretched the lead with a 25.76 on the third 50, getting 0.99 seconds forward of Zuchowski. However the Stanford junior charged and charged exhausting. He got here residence in 24.38, a second faster than Jahn. Jahn regarded set to carry him off, however Zuchowski acquired his hand to the wall a whisker sooner on the end to get a finals swim.
Zuchwoski was thirty ninth within the 100 again. That occasion featured a race for sixteenth place, gained by Bjorn Seeliger of California. He went 44.17, and Northwestern’s Stuart Seymour went 45.11, each faster than the 45.22 that had landed them within the tie. Seeliger upgraded to twelfth place within the ultimate.
Peck had the group race weighing on him. Texas enters the ultimate day with 368 factors, main California’s 312.5 and Indiana’s 304.
