2019 SPEEDO SECTIONALS – CARY, NC
- March 7-10, 2019
- Triangle Aquatic Center, Raleigh, NC
- SCY Format
- Live Results
17-year old Riptide swimmer Regan Smith swam a 1:48.67 in prelims of the women’s 200 backstroke on Sunday morning at the Cary, North Carolina Sectionals. Unlike her prelims swim in the 100 back earlier in the meet, however, this one is not actually a record: she swam 1:48.30 at the Akron Sectionals a year ago.
Missy Franklin retains the 17-18 National Age Group Record in this event at 1:48.42, while Smith’s 1:48.30 from March of 2018 (when she was still only 16) remains the fastest-ever time by an American junior.
Comparative Splits
| SMITH | SMITH |
| Sunday AM Swim | 15-16 Record |
| 25.85 | 25.67 |
| 27.36 | 27.10 |
| 27.80 | 27.69 |
| 27.66 | 27.84 |
| 1:48.67 | 1:48.30 |
She’ll need to be out a little faster to take out her old record in finals.
Smith’s swim obliterated the old Sectionals Record of 1:55.33 that was set in 2017.
147.16!!!!
1:47.2 in finals?
1:47.1
I really hope she can make Olympic team in 100 & 200 bk!
She will
On the one hand showing better endurance gives a hope that she can beat NAG record. On the other hand she maybe was faster at the end of the race just because she was slower at first 150 and there is no reason to suspect a greater form.