Hubert Kos, Regan Smith Double Saturday Evening in Austin; Marchand Clocks 2:08.25 200 Breast
A concluding session of tune-up racing on the Longhorn Elite Invitational noticed backstroke specialists Hubert Kos and Regan Smith every win over 100 meters of their most well-liked stroke, and each swimmers returned afterward to win medley races as properly. In the meantime, Leon Marchand backed up his 4:07 400 IM Friday night with a robust exhibiting within the 200 breaststroke.
Kos, recent off a 1:55.50 clocking within the 200 again, went 53.51 to win over half the space. Kos was even sooner at 53.28 in prelims, and he at present ranks No. 4 globally within the occasion at 52.24. His Texas teammate Will Modglin took second in 54.18, with Wisconsin’s Michael Lengthy third (54.98). Afterward, Kos was the one swimmer to interrupt 2:00 within the 200 IM, ending in 1:59.18.
Smith posted a time of 58.34 within the girls’s 100 again, properly forward of Wisconsin swimmers Maggie Wanezek (1:00.47) and Phoebe Bacon (1:00.59). Smith beforehand clocked 57.46 earlier this month in Fort Lauderdale for the world’s prime time in 2025, and this newest mark is one solely she and two-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown have surpassed up to now within the yr. Afterward, Smith’s sensational entrance half helped her overcome a typically-challenging breaststroke leg to win the 200 IM in 2:11.36, with Campbell Chase coming in behind her (2:12.53).
Marchand swam one other of his Olympic-gold-medal occasions and crushed the sector within the 200 breaststroke. He got here in at 2:08.25, adequate to make him the fourth-fastest performer on this planet this yr. The Frenchman’s Olympic-gold-medal-winning time of two:05.85 made him the No. 2 performer in historical past. Carson Foster. the bronze medalist behind Foster within the 400 IM in Paris, got here in second at 2:14.31 after taking fourth within the 100 again earlier within the evening.
Simone Manuel entered the worldwide top-10 within the 50 free with a time of 24.54, enhancing upon her earlier season better of 24.79. Manuel beforehand clocked 53.11 within the 100 free earlier within the meet. Manuel has gained this occasion on the final three U.S. Olympic Trials, however she’s going to face robust home challengers within the splash-and-dash at U.S. Nationals. Gretchen Walsh is at present the world’s top-ranked swimmer whereas Torri Huske ranks forward of Manuel and Kate Douglass simply behind.
A powerful meet for Rex Maurer concluded together with his third finest time in a freestyle occasion. Maurer went 7:51.19 within the 800 free, placing him simply behind Bobby Finke because the No. 2 American within the occasion this yr. Moreover, Piper Enge gained the ladies’s 200 breast, and the boys’s 50 free went to Ben Scholl (22.56).
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