Katie Kubiak Provides Two World Data on Evening 2 of Paraswimming Championships
Katie Kubiak added two extra world data on Saturday, the second night time of the three-day U.S. Paralympics Swimming Nationwide Championships.
Kubiak went 1:32.72 within the girls’s S4 100 backstroke. That’s 10 seconds faster than the mark set in 2011 by Dutch swimmer Lisette Teunissen (1:43.91). Kubiak additionally gained the S4 50 free in a time of 36.44 seconds, which chops .46 seconds off the 2022 world report set by Tanja Scholz of Germany.
That’s three world data in two days for Kubiak, a 22-year-old from Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
“It’s been a really surreal meet to date – I began working with a coach and we’ve been specializing in the weak features of my races, so having the ability to see these areas be stronger yesterday and at the moment has been promising,” Kubiak advised USA Paraswimming. “It offers me a whole lot of confidence going into world championships, which is my first worldwide competitors, understanding that I’m nonetheless making enhancements once I’m competing and that I’m doing the fitting issues to maintain bettering and staying on the stage I wish to be at.”
Koehn Boyd added his second world report of the meet, the 16-year-old from Minnesota clocking in at 2:05.50 within the S10 200 butterfly. That’s greater than a second faster than Stefano Raimondo’s world mark, the Italian having gong 2:06.66 in 2023. Boyd later gained the S10 50 free by going 24.96.
“I got here into this weekend hoping to drop time and do my finest, and I by no means thought one thing like a world report was inside attain, so I’m extremely honored to symbolize this neighborhood and Group USA,” Boyd stated. “Forward of world championships in Singapore, I’m going to maintain coaching mentally and bodily, and preserve my eye on the prize which is to hopefully make it to the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Video games.”
All races on the Idaho Central Aquatic Heart in Boise are multi-class, with winners decided by World Para Swimming Factors. The meet will assist decide the U.S. squad for this summer time’s World Aquatics Championships, and it wraps up on Sunday.
In different motion Saturday night time, Ellie Marks gained the S6 100 again with a time of 1:25.02. Cara Pennington was the quickest S9 swimmer within the 100 again, going 1:17.58, and Taylor Winnett added one other win within the S10 100 again.
Noah Jaffe’s time of 1:13.85 prevailed within the males’s S8 100 again, and he additionally gained the S8 50 free in 27.42.
Josie Dolan was the quickest of seven SB9 swimmers within the girls’s 100 breaststroke in 1:30.26. Olivia Chambers set a time of 1:20.35 as the one SB13 swimmer in that occasion.
Within the 50 freestyle, McKenzie Coan went 34.22 to win the three-person S7 race. Liz Smith prevailed within the S9 50 free, with a time of 30.14 seconds.
