2017 LAUSANNE CUP
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- December 20-21, 2017
- Meet central
- Live results
Canadian Taylor Ruck continued to impress in Lausanne, as day 2 wrapped up with more fast swimming from the teenager as well as more standout performances from the Japanese contingent.
Ruck took the win in the women’s 200 free first, going 1:52.74 to touch out Dutch stalwart Femke Heemskerk (1:52.91). The A final, consisting of the top six swimmers from prelims, consisted of three Canadian teenagers. Besides the winner Ruck, Rebecca Smith was 3rd (1:53.83) and Kayla Sanchez 5th (1:56.35).
Ruck was back in the 100 back, tying Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu for the 100 back victory, as both women went twin 56.99’s. In her third event of the night, Ruck finished third in the 50 free (24.08), behind Rikako Ikee (23.95) and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (23.66). Ikee broke the national record for Japan there, and tied her own national mark earlier tonight with a 55.64 to win the 100 fly.
The Japanese men had a strong showing on day 2 just as they did on day 1. Masaki Kaneko nearly took down his own Japanese record of 49.65 in the 100 back, going 49.92 to win the race easily. One of the more exciting races was the men’s 200 IM, where Kosuke Hagino completed the IM triple crown for the win. He went 1:52.65, his 27.73 back split (the field’s best) essentially the only thing that separated him from the field. Germany’s Philip Heintz was 1:53.17 for 2nd. Yasuhiro Koseki was 26.51 to edge out countrymate Daiya Seto (26.66) in the 50 breast,
The women’s 200 IM was also a great race. Yui Ohashi, who didn’t have to fight with Katinka Hosszu in the 400 IM, was actually out ahead of Hosszu at the halfway point in the 200 IM. Hosszu reeled her back in, though, using a strong 35.61 breast split to jump to a lead, winning 2:05.00 to 2:06.42.
Nils Liess went 3:45.11 to take the men’s 400 free win, getting a victory for the home crowd.
Michael Andrew broke through for his first win, which just so happened to be the final event of the meet. In the 50 free, Andrew topped the field with a 21.31. That time ties him with Paul Powers, making him tied for the 9th-fastest performer in American history for the event.
Thanks for the shout out! Nils has great potential and his time will still come. Unfortunately he did not break my Swiss record of 3:39.86. He did however break the meet record. Congrats Nils!
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Great photo!
Taylor Ruck had an “Iron Lady” kind of evening with all those top finishes.
Katinka’s got a new rival in the backstrokes, that’s for sure.
And Ohashi in IM. Maybe she’ll get it handed to her soon. Tired of “Iron Lady” bs.
what is “iron lady” bs?
Got the feeling Ruck was holding something back in the 200 Free so she’d be able to match pace with the Iron Lady later in their head-to-head. You could see in the way they refused to look at each other in the victors’ ceremony yesterday that these two felt a need to get it on. A fine effort from both!
Three really solid performances from Ruck, also considering that her turns and underwaters aren’t a force with regard to other swimmers (for instance Kromowidjojo).
Impressed by her improvements in raw speed, and she has the “easy speed” to be very fast in the front-half of a 100 free.
Who knows? In LCM Ruck could become “the perfect 100 freer”.
And then great skills also in 200 back (she’s improved both in free and in back but, speaking about 200 metres, Ruck has perhaps shown, until now, more endurance and “buffer to progress again” in back than in free).
Very, very interesting combination of swimming skills.