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Gianluca Urlando Becomes No. 2 15-16 American Performer in 200 Fly

2018 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

In finals on night one of the 2018 Phillips National Championships, the Davis Aquadarts’ Gianluca Urlando became the No. 2 15-16 American performer of all-time in the men’s 200 fly, trailing only Michael Phelps (1:54.58).

Urlando split 25.79/28.98/ 30.04/30.40 en route to his final time of 1:55.21, which tied him for third along with Jack Conger Wednesday. Conger led the way through the 150, but faded on the final 50 as Louisville’s Zach Harting busted out a lifetime best 1:55.11 to take 2nd, then Urlando ran Conger down to tie for 3rd in 1:55.21.

Justin Wright won the event; he was 7th through the halfway mark and 5th going into the final lap, but he stuck to his race plan and brought it home, dropping another second in 1:54.53. He’s now the 7th fastest American in history, just 6 hundredths behind Conger.

Urlando is now faster at 16 than 2017 Worlds 100 fly silver medalist and No. 6 all-time 200 flyer Kristof Milak was.

Fastest US Boys 15-16
1 Michael Phelps 1:54.58
2 Gianluca Urlando 1:55.21
3 Andrew Seliskar 1:56.42
4 Justin Lynch 1:57.80
5 Carson Foster 1:57.87
6 Justin Wright 1:57.90
7 Dan Madwed 1:58.15
8 Corey Okubo 1:58.58
9 Dare Rose 1:58.97
10 Mike Thomas 1:59.11

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Jalen Stimes
6 years ago

Foster’s 1:57.87 is his 200 M Back time, not his fly, which is 1:58.47.

Tea rex
6 years ago

How does a tie work for pan pacs selection?

nuotofan
6 years ago

In Italian.
Congratulazioni a Gianluca Urlando per il modo in cui ha affrontato la sua prima finale a livello assoluto: passaggio decisissimo ai 100m e ottima tenuta anche nell’ultima vasca (Congrats to Gianluca Urlando for the way he swam his first senior final: attacking the front-half of his race and showing great endurance also in the last 50).

Kristiina
6 years ago

This american-italian boy is sensational likely Phelps. Only 16 and already Pan Pacific team.

Cyrus Crews
6 years ago

Amazing swim Luca! Happy for you. Exciting to see it happening in our LSC. Good luck the rest of this week!

PONCHO
6 years ago

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PONCHO
6 years ago

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About Torrey Hart

Torrey Hart

Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.

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