Day four finals at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games will feature only two small scratches that will have little effect on the competition overall.
The first scratch came in the women’s 100m backstroke. Peruvian swimmer Mckenna De Bever, who qualified for the consolation final as the 16th overall seed, scratched after posting a 1:05.00 this morning. She was off her Peruvian national record time of 1:03.45 that she swam at the 2014 Athens Bulldog Grand Slam. De Bever trains with the Bolles School Sharks in Florida.
With De Bever’s scratch, Ines Remersaro of Uruguay was bumped up to the consolation final. She wasn’t far behind De Bever this morning, clocking in at 1:05.21 to finish 17th overall. She’s going to have a shot at a Uruguayan national record tonight. The record currently stands at 1:04.99 and was set all the way back in 2003 by Serrana Fernandez. Remersaro is already the national record holder in the 200m backstroke.
The other scratch of the night came in the men’s 400m freestyle. Argentinian swimmer Martin Naidich put up a good effort this morning in order to churn out a 3:54.44 to take the 12th seed after prelims. He was about three seconds off the national record this morning.
With Naidich gone Barbados swimmer Alex Sobers will be moving up to the 16th seed and getting an outside lane. Sobers was a 4:01.77 this morning. The curent Barbadian national record stands at 3:58.04.
The 100 back record belongs to Remersaro with 1.04.54 she did.it last year at the monaco mare nostrum.