Who's your pick for the 50 free?
Roland Schoeman? Cullen Jones? Fred Bousquet?
HEAT 22/ 24
1 CAI Li 87 CHN 22.58
2 CIELO FILHO Cesar 87 BRA 22.32
3 ILES Salim 75 ALG 22.21
4 VOLYNETS Oleksandr 74 UKR 21.97
5 SCHOEMAN Roland 89 RSA 22.12
6 LAGUNOV Evgeny 85 RUS 22.24
7 GIMBUTIS Rolandas 81 LTU 22.43
8 TSAGKARAKIS Apostolos 82 GRE 22.63
HEAT 23/ 24
1 ROSE Matthew 81 CAN 22.56
2 BERNARD Alain 83 FRA 22.32
3 CALLUS Ashley 79 AUS 22.19
4 KIZIEROWSKI Bartosz 77 POL 21.88
5 SULLIVAN Eamon 85 AUS 22.00
6 NYSTRAND Stefan 81 SWE 22.22
7 STYMNE Petter 83 SWE 22.41
8 ITO Makoto 86 JPN 22.61
HEAT 24/ 24
1 GODEC Jernej 86 SLO 22.54
2 LORENTE GINESTA Eduard 77 ESP 22.27
3 WILDMAN−TOBRINER Benjamin 84 USA 22.16
4 JONES Cullen 84 USA 21.84
5 BOUSQUET Frederick 81 FRA 21.99
6 HAYDEN Brent 83 CAN 22.22
7 ALMASRI Rafed−Zyad 82 SYR 22.41
8 BOVELL George 83 TRI 22.59
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I'd like to see Jones take it with a new American record.
Well,
The semi's were not as fast as I expected.
Cesar Cielo seems to have no trouble making the long course transition, unlike Bousquet.
Where did this Pole come from?
Looks like Popov keeps the world's fastest human title for another year.
Again, anything is possible. A few tenths faster is very likely from any one of these guys.
Jones has a blistering turn-over towards the last 20 meters. Still predict a best time from him... along with the win.
You're right...unlike Bousquet, Cesar clearly made the change over from yards to meters.
Rank HT LN Name YB Nation R.T. Result Behind
1. 1 5 NYSTRAND Stefan 81 SWE 0.72 21.99Q
2. 2 5 JONES Cullen 84 USA 0.71 22.00Q 0.01
3. 1 3 CIELO FILHO Cesar 87 BRA 0.69 22.09Q 0.10
4. 2 4 KIZIEROWSKI Bartosz 77 POL 0.72 22.13Q 0.14
5. 1 4 SULLIVAN Eamon 85 AUS 0.68 22.19Q 0.20
6. 2 3 WILDMAN-TOBRINER Benjamin 84 USA 0.77 22.23Q 0.24
7. 1 2 SCHOEMAN Roland 80 RSA 0.65 22.24Q 0.25
8. 2 1 HAYDEN Brent 83 CAN 0.79 22.31Q 0.32
Kizierkowski is a three time Olmypian.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Bartosz_Kizierowski
Very close finish. How did they ever decide who won before touch pads came into play?!
On a side note...
It's pretty incredible for the 30 year old ~masters swimmer~ from Poland to finish with a 22 flat.
And Wildman is a great last name to have if you're a sprinter!
I think Cesar really overshadowed Ben's achievement of also breaking the 19 second barrier at NCAA's this year (18.98). And on that note..he clearly had no problem of transitioning from a short course pool to long course meters.
Rank LN Name YB Nation R.T. Result Behind
1. 7 WILDMAN-TOBRINER Benjamin 84 USA 0.73 21.88
2. 5 JONES Cullen 84 USA 0.71 21.94 0.06
3. 4 NYSTRAND Stefan 81 SWE 0.72 21.97 0.09
4. 6 KIZIEROWSKI Bartosz 77 POL 0.71 22.00 0.12
5. 2 SULLIVAN Eamon 85 AUS 0.65 22.05 0.17
6. 3 CIELO FILHO Cesar 87 BRA 0.70 22.12 0.24
7. 1 SCHOEMAN Roland 80 RSA 0.65 22.16 0.28
8. 8 HAYDEN Brent 83 CAN 0.74 22.28 0.40
I can't help but wonder if the "Wildman" didn't attempt to mini-taper/swim through NCAAs and taper for Worlds.
All the talk leading up to NCAAs was about Cielo - maybe Ben W-T just wanted to keep a low profile until worlds and then come out like a bat out of hell on the international stage. Would make a lot of sense to me, considering that other than the USA, no one cares about SCY.
I can't help but wonder if the "Wildman" didn't attempt to mini-taper/swim through NCAAs and taper for Worlds.
All the talk leading up to NCAAs was about Cielo - maybe Ben W-T just wanted to keep a low profile until worlds and then come out like a bat out of hell on the international stage. Would make a lot of sense to me, considering that other than the USA, no one cares about SCY.
No one might care about SCY, but school teams care A LOT about winning NCAA's. The Longhorns had a legit shot at winning this year and I'm sure they would have loved to have beaten Auburn... I have no doubt that Wildman-Tobriner had a full taper for NCAA's. I am very impressed with how well he did at Worlds in LCM format.
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Very close finish. How did they ever decide who won before touch pads came into play?!
And before digital stopwatches were invented, we used to have two or three timers per lane with analog stopwatches that only had 0.2 seconds markings on the watch-face but where the hand could stop between between two of these marks (thereby indicating 1/10th of a second).
Then, they would take the average of the two or three times (per lane) to announce the final times per heat.
No, I am not over 100 years old but that was back in the early 60's in Cairo, Egypt (when self-winding watches were a novelty back then.)
