Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Jared Anderson.
The men’s 100 back turned into a three-man showdown between Americans in a race featuring three of the top candidates for the two U.S. Olympic team spots. David Plummer led at the 50, but Olympic champ Matt Grevers rolled through the back half to win in 53.35. NCAA star Ryan Murphy actually had the field’s best closing split and just eked out second over Plummer at 53.46. Plummer was 53.50 in a very tight battle.
Club Wolverein’s Junya Koga, who competes for Japan, was 53.97 for fourth, with new Serbian national Arkady Vyatchanin going 54.33 for fifth.
In a loaded heat, Olympic 200 back champ Tyler Clary was 6th (55.10) with Rex Tullius (55.57) and Hennessey Stuart (55.75) closing out the heat.
yea 48.7 in briefs and then 48.9 in fastskin at Austin…I really doubt the 48.7
woaw 48.7 for nathan in briefs at altitude…..
48.7 in a brief… what. That’s hard to believe. May have been one of those “coach’s watch” situations (start the watch a split second late, stop it a split second early). If it’s true, however, Adrian will certainly be in the mix for gold again this summer.
Maybe it was SCM?
I think the OTC pool is 50 x 25m and since it was a college training trip primarily I could see rationale for a short-course config…but confirmation / corroboration would be good because 48.7 scm in a brief in practice is nuts but lcm is [tween/millennial pls insert meme or gif here]
Regardless, beating Grevers by 3 seconds is pretty impressive. Equally impressive that Grevers was able to match weightlifting with Adrian, who’s a beast in the weight room.
I wanna lift with those brahs so bad. Would make me feel less useless.