![]() ![]() ![]() Favorite us!įollow plan is for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the Olympic and world champion and world record holder in the 400m hurdles, to race the flat 400m at July’s USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships, then either the flat 400m or 400m hurdles at August’s world championships. Urlando broke Phelps’ national-age group record for 17- and 18-year-olds two years ago.Īlex Walsh, 19, was the fastest qualifier into the women’s 200m individual medley final, clocking a personal best. Urlando, 19 and the grandson of an Italian Olympic hammer thrower, is the fastest American since the start of 2019 by more than a second. Luca Urlando and Zach Harting shared the top time to qualify for the first Olympic Trials 200m butterfly final without Michael Phelps since 1996. Ledecky will swim finals in the 200m free and the 1500m free about an hour apart on Wednesday, a double that she has done at major international meets. In semifinals, Katie Ledecky qualified fastest into Wednesday night’s 200m freestyle final. Drew Kibler and Andrew Seliskar were next and qualified for their first Games in the 4x200m free relay. The medal favorites around the globe can break 1:45. 37 behind, to join him on the Olympic team. Townley Haas, who won the 2016 Olympic Trials, took second. Kieran Smith became the first man to win both the 200m and 400m frees at an Olympic Trials, claiming the former in a personal-best 1:45.29. Matt Grevers, the 2012 Olympic champion, finished sixth in what may have been his final Olympic Trials race. World-record holder Murphy won the men’s 100m back so he can defend his Olympic title in Tokyo. White took second in 58.60, edging world bronze medalist Olivia Smoliga for the likely second Olympic spot. Smith clocked 58.35 seconds, nine tenths off the new record set by Kaylee McKeown at the Australian Olympic Trials. In other events Tuesday, 19-year-old Regan Smith won the 100m back, an event where she held the world record until Sunday. Much of this is also on Jacoby’s Wikipedia page, created on May 8. She skied on trails outside her front door, popping at least one headphone out to stay alert to bears and moose. She was still out of pools for two months, so she went water skiing. So she moved to Anchorage for the summer. “Most of you probably know that I’m a competitive swimmer.”ĭuring the pandemic, Jacoby’s home facility was closed for eight months. “I have lived in Seward my entire life but hope to live somewhere else when I grow up,” her writer bio reads. Her columns for SHS Today at Seward High School included a series on the 1940s. She sang and played the bass for the Snow River String Band, performing bluegrass at the Anchorage Folk Festival. Jacoby, committed to swim for the University of Texas in 2022, is multi-talented. The state has one Olympic-size pool, two hours from Jacoby’s home, but they halve it save one meet a year, she said on a Swimswam podcast after her April breakout. Jacoby hails from Seward, a city on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska. She now ranks second in the world this year, behind only King, the Olympic and world champion and world-record holder. She entered Trials seeded third in the nation. Olympian Jessica Hardy at a USA Swimming Foundation clinic in Alaska four years ago. She swims in goggles given to her by 2012 U.S. Then there’s Jacoby, who since April 8 dropped 2.29 seconds off her personal best in a 65-second race. SWIM TRIALS: Results | TV Schedule | Women’s Event Previews | Men’s Event Previews Hunter Armstrong was 19th in the men’s 100m back in 2019. I’m so excited to be able to now represent my country as well.”Īll of the favorites won the four finals on Tuesday - King, Regan Smith and Ryan Murphy in the 100m backstrokes and Kieran Smith in the 200m freestyle. ![]() “I’m so honored to be able to represent my state in a meet like this. It should be confirmed later in the eight-day meet that finishes Sunday, once enough swimmers qualify in multiple events so that the total roster doesn’t exceed 26 women. Jacoby took second to the world’s top breaststroker, Lilly King, in the 100m breast in Omaha to all but clinch a spot on the team for Tokyo. It looks like they’ll be joined by 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby, who would be the first Alaskan to swim at an Olympics. swim team at the Olympic Trials on Tuesday night. Olympic gold medalists and world-record holders qualified for the U.S. ![]()
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