2021 U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMING TRIALS
- When:
- Wave I Dates: June 4-7, 2021
- Wave II Dates: June 13-20, 2021
- Prelims: 10am CDT | Finals: 7pm CDT
- Where: CHI Health Center / Omaha, Nebraska
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifying Cuts
- Wave I & II Event Order
- LCM (50m)
- Prelims Live Stream (USA Swimming)
- Prelims Live Stream (NBC Olympics)
- Finals Live Stream (Olympic Channel)
- Wave I Psych Sheets
- Wave I Live Results
- Day 3 Finals Heat Sheet
Reported by Spencer Penland.
MEN’S 400 FREE – FINALS
- World Record: 3:40.07 – Paul Biederman (GER), 2009
- American Record: 3:42.78 – Larsen Jensen, 2008
- U.S. Open Record: 3:43.53 – Larsen Jensen (USA), 2008
- World Junior Record: 3:44.60 – Mack Horton (AUS)
- 2016 Olympic Champion: Mack Horton (AUS) – 3:41.55
- 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Connor Jaeger – 3:43.79
- Wave I Cut: 3:57.29
- Wave II Cut: 3:54.21
Podium
- Ivan Kurakin (TAC) – 3:56.17
- Brice Barrieault (SAND) – 3:56.61
- Curtis Wiltsey (NCS) – 3:56.72
For the first time at the Wave I meet, the B final winner posted the fastest time in the field. Eli Shoyat blew away his previous best, and roared out to a lead over the rest of the B final. He touched in 3:55.75, touching as the only swimmer in the event at this meet to break 3:56.
The two swimmers who will be advancing are Triton Aquatic Club 21-year-old Ivan Kurakin, who also earned the top seed in prelims this morning, and Sandpipers’ Brice Barrieault, who was swimming down in lane 8. Kurakin was in the lead essentially from start to finish, and although it looked like he would get caught on the 2nd-to-last 50, he managed to kick it into gear on the final length, and touch first.
I’ve raced Ivan a couple times in the 200 back, he’s a nice guy and talented swimmer
Great kid and well swum race against a field he knew would try to push on the 2nd half of the race.
Ivan sounds like a nice guy. I was surprised with both narrators having hard time to pronounced correctly his very simple three syllables (the stress on the second one) Russian surname.
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Sucks to be Shoyat. Wish they could make an exception and allow him to advance to wave 2 as well
Oddly this happened for the women’s 400 free as well, although she would’ve been second not first. But swimmers of all ages have had the chance to learn the importance of getting it done in prelims.
That defeats the purpose of prelims.
This isn’t time trials where you keep trying to hit a time.
It’s a competition with set rules.
To make the Olympic team you have to
1. Place in the top 2 of wave 1 / or have a time fast enough to get a “bye” and automatically go to wave 2 – before the completion starts!
2. Make top 16 (or 8) in prelims … Then top 8 in semis, then top 2.
That’s the contest.
For some reason swimming has turned into a time trial rankings instead of racing. It’s one thing to go fast in clean water, it’s another when you have people creating big waves next you.