2021 SPEEDO SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS – IRVINE
- August 3-7
- William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Website (USA Swimming)
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream (USA Swimming)
Video courtesy of Anne Lepesant.
Reported by Spencer Penland.
MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – FINALS
Podium:
- Trenton Julian (ROSE) – 1:54.71
- Harry Homans (TASC) – 1:59.32
- Jack Lustig (SSTY) – 2:00.22
Trenton Julian blew the field away in this 200 fly final. The 22-year-old did what we were expecting: take the race out fast. Turning at 53.85 at the 100m mark, Julian was right on pace with his first 100 split from his lifetime best he swam in semifinals at the Olympic Trials (53.65). However, this race would not turn out to be like his Trials race, where he split 1:01.70 on the final 100. Instead, Julian held it together much better, splitting 29.51 and 31.35 on the final 2 50s, for a 1:00.86 on the final 100.
Julian touched in 1:54.71, which was a personal best by over half a second. With the swim, Julian is now the fastest American in the event this year, and the 7th-fastest swimmer in the world this year. He also rises to the #9 American all-time in the event. The 200 fly was just the first event in a full schedule for Julian this week, so we’ll be watching eagerly the rest of this week.
Harry Homans was slightly faster tonight than he was this morning, taking 0.35 seconds off his prelims time. The swim was off his personal best of 1:58.18.
Schroeder Y’s Jack Lustig chipped another 0.39 seconds off his lifetime best from this morning, taking 3rd.
I’d bet my life savings Trenton is NCAA Champion in the 2 fly next year! Dudes got a lot more coming! #Leee
It’s going to be an awesome race. But…Nick Albiero is coming back too.
And Luca Urlando too I believe
Yep, that’s another one.
This could be the race-of-the-year on the men’s side.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/02/why-southern-california-is-a-new-ev-mecca-with-rivian-lordstown-and-karma-in-irvine/ Irvine is great with electric cars. Irvine is going to stopped swim meats in the future and do more electric car engineering. Yeah, he did better then either Gunner Bend or Zach Harting that happens with swimmers peaking later.
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wut
You usually have some interesting local historical perspective but as Erik says “wut”?
The plural of Gunnar Bend is Gunnar Benz.
There are multiple Gunnars? Or is it Gunnerz?
My cousin is named Gunnar. But in Brazil, where he is from, it’s pronounced “Goon-er”. So my point is, there are definitely Gunnerz. The end. 😉
How is this getting downvotes. Cynthia is the queen of swimswam posting. She posts rationally for awhile then randomly goes off like this and you never know when it’s going to happen. All hail Queen Cynthia.
Too much caffeine this morning
Love this lol
I heard he prays to Chad le Clos every night and before every race
Almighty LeClos forgot to tell him to turn his head to look at his opponent every 2 strokes
On his way to an Olympic gold medal vs. GOAT.
Le Clos splits in 2012: 54.06 / 58.90
In 2021: 53.32 / 1.01.61
Bruh…
You hate to see it
Sounds like a bad first taper for OT! REST IS KING!
What video did you watch?
This idea that it’s always about a good or bad taper is ridiculous. It completely takes away any personal responsibility or control from the swimmer. As Trenton says in the video there are and were other real factors involved in his performances here as opposed to trials finals. High performance under stress has a learning curve that is unique to each individual.