Anna Moesch Joins Sub-1:40 Membership With No. 3 All-Time 200 Free
The 1:40 mark within the ladies’s 200-yard freestyle is hallowed for its roundness and its rarity. When Missy Franklin went 1:39.10 in 2015 to discovered the sub-1:40 membership, it was a swim that appeared a technology forward of its time.
A decade later, nobody has caught as much as it but. However Anna Moesch staking her declare to a spot within the membership is a sign of progress.
Moesch turned within the third-fastest time in historical past Thursday night time on the ACC Championships, clocking in at 1:39.72. The Virginia sophomore is the second Cavalier in as a few years to get beneath 1:40, with Gretchen Walsh going 1:39.34 at ACCs final yr.
Walsh’s swim got here off the entrance of the 800 free relay, however Walsh didn’t swim on that relay at NCAAs. The NCAA title went to Anna Peplowski at 1:40.50 final yr, with two different 1:40-points and Moesch fifth in 1:42.39.
Splits for Walsh final yr:
r:+0.77 22.40 47.14 (47.14)
1:12.77 (1:12.77) 1:39.34 (1:39.34)
And Moesch this yr:
1 Moesch, Anna SO UVA 1:41.67 1:39.72&IV25 32
r:+0.72 23.54 49.15 (25.61)
1:14.58 (25.43) 1:39.72 (25.14)
The 1:40 mark has confirmed resistant by way of the years. Walsh was 1:40.23 at ACCs in 2024. Comerford went 1:40.26 at NCAAs in 2019 after having been 1:40.36 in 2017. Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel went 1:40.36 and 1:40.37, respectively, in collegiate competitors. That’s some fairly good swings that the usual has been in a position to withstood.
Moesch is in fairly spectacular firm. She went 1:40.25 on the CSCAA Twin Meet Problem in December to state her case in what was then the No. 5 all-time efficiency. She break up 1:40.42 off the tip of the 800 free relay at ACCs on Tuesday night time as a sign of her kind. She has the prospect at NCAAs to get one other two flat-start appears on the mark by way of the relay.
Both approach, she’s discovered her approach right into a choose group.
Sub-1:40 NCAA Girls’s 200 Freestyles
1:39.10 – Missy Franklin, California, 2015
1:39.34 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia, 2025
1:39.72 – Anna Moesch, Virginia, 2026
1:39.80 – Mallory Comerford, Louisville, 2018
