Russian breaststroker Yulia Efimova put up a second straight day of big swims on Sunday at the 2015 CA Southern California March Senior Invite in long course, as she had a very fast return from her 16-month doping suspension.
On Sunday, Efimova swam a world-leading 2:23.99 in the 200 meter breaststroke. Unlike the 100 on Saturday, that does bump Efimova to 3rd in the 2015 world rankings.
2014-2015 LCM Women 200 Breast
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| 2 | Kanako WATANABE | JPN | 2.20.90 | 04/12 |
| 3 | Rikke MOLLER PEDERSEN | DEN | 2.21.58 | 06/10 |
| 4 | Rie KANETOU | JPN | 2.21.90 | 04/12 |
| 5 | Micah LAWRENCE | USA | 2.22.04 | 08/06 |
As compared to Efimova’s own personal history, her endurance suffered a tiny bit at the end of this 200 breaststroke; she’s usually a hair better than the 37.3 that she split at the end of this race. Overall, though, it was a seven-second victory, and another solid swim in her return to action.
Other winners on Sunday:
- US National Teamer Katie McLaughlin won the women’s 100 fly in 1:00.97, beating out Chinese swimmer Shija Wang. McLaughlin again topped Wang in the 100 free, though by a tighter 56.36-56.72 margin.
- Alex Valente won the men’s 100 fly in 54.76.Cole Cogswell finished 6th in 58.26.
- The Russians went 1-2-3 in the men’s 100 free, with Nikita Lobintsev (49.68), Alexander Sukhorukov (49.81), and Vlad Morozov (49.82).
Other interesting results from young promising US swimmers last weekend.
13-year-old Vinny Marciano swam a lot of best times in New Jersey.
21.38 in the 50 free
46.51 in the 100 free
1.41.69 in the 200 free
50.83 in the 100 back
1.52.25 in the 200 back
14-year-old Zachary Hils swam in Kentucky a new PB in the 400 IM in 3.58.13.
He’s now the 12th fastest 13/14 US boy ever in that event.
11/12 NAG record holder Ethan Dang, now 13, swam new best times on breaststroke.
57.81 in the 100 breast
2.03.14 in the 200 breast
If someone has the performances of 13-year-old Regan Smith at Minnesota age group championships,… Read more »
I’ve finally found the Minnesota results and Regan Smith swam best times on backstroke.
53.84 in the 100 back
1.58.44 in the 200 back.
And I’ve found trace of Allie Szekely! 🙂
She’s already in long course mode and will swim at sectionals in Buffalo this week.
http://www.easternzoneswimming.org/meet_info/2015SpringSectionals_LongCourse_Psych.pdf
All results here
http://www.socalswim.org/live-results/2015MarchSeniorMVN
Abbey Weitzeil must be in a very heavy training period.
She swam 56.88 in the 100 free final.
Anyway, she isn’t usually a fast in-season swimmer.
Last year at the same period she was in 57.26.
I say, “keep them doubting!” She has been very consistent over the years anyways!
If she were a chinese and trained in China, I doubt you would have said the same thing.
Good for Yulia. Not saying that what she did before is to be overlooked, but to fight through that and come out swimming these times is impressive.