2020 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE
- Thursday, January 16 – Sunday, January 19, 2020
- Knoxville, TN – Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center – University of Tennessee
- Long course meters (LCM) format
- Thursday distance session: 4 PM (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Fri-Sun.: 9:30 AM Prelims / 6:30 PM Finals
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- Live Stream
- Psych Sheets
- Live results
Reported by Lauren Neidigh.
MEN’S 100 FREE
- PSS Record: Nathan Adrian, 2016, 48.00
- Trials Cut: 50.49
Top 3 Finishers
- Zach Apple (MVN)- 48.98
- Ryan Held (NYAC)- 49.09
- Yuri Kisil (CAN)- 49.48
50 free champ Nyls Korstanje took it out with the lead, but World Champion Zach Apple and Olympic Champion Ryan Held pulled ahead to battle for the win. Apple had the closing speed to win it, out-touching Held 48.98 to 49.09.
Canadian Olympian Yuri Kisil touched 3rd in 49.48, while Korstanje landed 4th in 49.52. Mikel Schreuders was just a few hundredths back in 49.58. U.S. National Teamers Dean Farris (49.74) and Justin Ress (49.81) were 6th and 7th.
Are we talking 4×50@30 holding 21’s? Where’s breakfast and pancakes I’d love to watch that!
I forgot which interview Phelps said he went a 1:30 broken 200 IM
1:30 seems really tough, but something like 1:33-1:34 broken could be reasonable? I could see splits like 22/23/27/22 or something. Kind of a shame we never got to see what Phelps could really do in SCY given how great an underwater swimmer he was.
A 3:29 400 IM wouldn’t have been out of the question in 2007-08
Was he good underwater ? Genuinely interested as I’ve heard differing opinions on this .Btw, Chalmers just swam a 47.99
The reason why it looked great was because the guy next to him was very poor UW making Phelps look even better. If Phelps was next to Shields on that turn, it probably wouldn’t have looked as great.
Nonsense. This was analysed and reported on SwimSwam. Phelps hit 2.56m/s for the 15m off that turn. Shields would love to get close to that speed. https://staging.swimswam.com/does-caeleb-dressel-accelerate-a-statistical-video-based-look/
Shields has never had as good free races as his fly (and to a lesser extent, back) races. Frankly, Shields is merely an average world level swimmer on the surface, but his underwaters are great and what have allowed him to make it into the top tier of world level swimmers before. At least in 2014, he crushed Phelps on the turn in the 100 fly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2xJrF5EHM.
I don’t have the time or inclination to do so, but it’d be interesting to do that statistical analysis on the videos of Shields’ races to see how his underwater speed stacks up from race to race with the ones in the article Buster linked.
Phelps was much better in 2016 than 2014
Dude he was kicking faster than Kyle Chamlers sprinting freestyle next to him, don’t be ridiculous
Check out his UW’s 200 free at 2007 Worlds v PVDH when he broke Thorpes WR.
“House, we’ve been hearing whispers that maybe Phelp’s underwaters weren’t that great. I’d still rank him… top 7 of the last decade when it comes to Underwater swimming”
In a live feed on his fb, just before Rio.
21.0s (presumably from a push) on 10 sec rest is impressive
More impressive would be 4 x 50 from the blocks with only 10″ rest.
It felt monotonous
He is going to have a great summer I think
He’s going to be great at OTs.
one dangerous 100 free opponent to all the others …..
I hear Dean actually goes slower when he takes breaks
hahahahahha
Only in practice of course.
Heard it felt “monotonous”