2018 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, July 25 – Sunday, July 29, 2018
- William Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA
- Prelims 9 AM / Finals 6 PM (U.S. Pacific Time)
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16-year old Mason Manta Rays swimmer Carson Foster has re-broken his own National Age Group Record in the 200 meter IM on Sunday evening. Swimming in the B-Final, he placed 2nd (behind Will Licon), and swam a 1:59.45. That cut a quarter-of-a-second off his prelims swim, making a total improvement of .39 seconds on Andrew Seliskar’s old record on Sunday.
Foster’s biggest improvement in finals came over the first 150 meters. He was a full second faster to that point than he was in the morning swim. He paid for that aggressiveness on the freestyle leg, where he was more than 8 tenths slower in finals than he w as in prelims, but the end result was still a better time.
Gianluca Urlando, who joined Foster in the age group’s all-time top 5 on Sunday morning, was disqualified in the final for a false start.
5 FASTEST AMERICAN 15-16s IN HISTORY, 200 IM
| Rank | Swimmer | Fly Split | Back Split | Breast Split | Free Split | Total Time |
| 1 | Carson Foster | 25.40 | 29.96 | 35.21 | 28.88 | 1:59.45 |
| 2 | Andrew Seliskar | 26.23 | 31.14 | 34.31 | 28.16 | 1:59.84 |
| 3 | Michael Andrew | 25.11 | 30.45 | 34.49 | 29.81 | 1:59.86 |
| 4 | Gianluca Urlando | 26.04 | 30.37 | 34.6 | 29.61 | 2:00.71 |
| 5 | Michael Phelps | 25.99 | 30.95 | 36.06 | 27.86 | 2:00.86 |
Anyone know Urlando’s pre-DQ time?
Here’s the race video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcsGs7SYG1s
Urlando was close to House and Julian’s times. Around 2.00.00/2.00.05.
With a bad start and probably a little bit of fatigue after all his races of the week that was a great race.
We’ll see if he’ll swim again that event at pan pacs.
Foster vs Urlando in the 200 IM. We’ll see that battle very often in the future.