USA Grand Prix Results from Austin, Texas
Olympic champion Nathan Adrian cracked out a 48.32 season long-course opener over 100m freestyle on the first night of the Arena Austin Grand Prix at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas. Adrian's time, a pool record, took him just 0.06sec ahead of James Magnussen (AUS), the man he pipped by 0.01sec for the Olympic crown at London 2012, at the helm of the early 2013 world rankings. The pool mark is soaked in history: Matt Biondi, the last American to win the 100m Games title before Adrian, had held the previous record at 48.42 - from 1988, the year he won Olympic gold (one of five) win Seoul.
Adrian dominated the Austin race, fellow Olympians Ricky Berens and Jimmy Feigen on 49.35 and 50.01 respectively to follow home. Double Olympic champion Missy Franklin took the women's 100m free in 54.68 well up on Simone Manuel, 55.52, and Nathalie Lindborg, 56.16. Other winners included Rachel Nicol, on 2:28.79 in the 200m breaststroke; B.J. Johnson ahead of Clark Burckle and Mike Alexandrov 2:13.02 to 2:13.36 and 2:13.97 in the 200m breaststroke; Chloe Sutton under 4:10 in the 400m free ahead of Canada's Barbara Jardin, 4:10.27 and Texan Quinn Carrozza, 4:11.16. Jardon's Canadian teammate and Olympic 1500m free medallist at London 2012, Ryan Cochrane, clocked 3:52.07 to win the 400m free; Noemie Thomas took the 100m 'fly in 58.88, the sole sub-minute effort of the race; and Stanford training partners Eugene Godsoe and Bobby Bollier went 102 in the 100 'fly for men in 53.54 and 53.57 ahead of Club Wolverine's Dan Madwed, on 53.77.
Olympic champion Missy Franklin set a pool record of 2:07.31 to trace the helm of the early 2013 world rankings over 200m backstroke on the second night of the Austin, Texas, round of the Arena Grand Prix at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
By then, Franklin had already won the 200m free in another pace-setting time, 1:57.69. On backstroke, her effort got inside Kirsty Coventry's previous pool mark, of 2:07.59, and left her way up on the field, Hilary Caldwell second in 2:12.13. On freestyle, Quinn Carrozza followed Franklin home in 1:59.42, with Canada's Barbara Jardin third in 1:59.98.
Olympic 100m free champion Nathan Adrian brought the solo events to a close with a 2013 standard-setting 21.70 victory in the dash, the quality of that enhanced by the 22.43 efforts with which Anthony Ervin and Jimmy Feigen shared silver. A gold medal at London 2012 was more of a start than an end result for Adrian and his full potential as a sprinter, a 21.70 in January would indicate.
Olympic 100m back champ Matt Grevers clocked 1:58.84 to keep Olympic 200m champ and US teammate Tyler Clary at bay in the 200m back, while Clary claimed a gold of his own, on 4:20.36 in the 400m medley. Ricky Berens clocked 1:48.39 to keep Michael Klueh (1:49.48) and Ryan Lochte (1:50.19) at bay in the 200m free.
In a 400m medley that included joust five swimmers in total, betas and finals, Alexa Komarnycky (CAN) finished first in 4:47.15. Amanda Weir took the women's freestyle dash in 25.53.
Olympic champions Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin put in solid performances to conclude their Arena Austin Grand Prix campaigns at the Joe and Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Texas. Lochte won the 200m medley in 2:00.98 ahead of Olympic 200m back champion Tyler Clary (2:03.02) and world s/c medallist Conor Dwyer (2:03.09), while Franklin took her fourth win of the three-day meet in 1:00.00 in the 100m backstroke. Clary returned to the fray for a s second second place, on 1:59.43 behind Bobby Bollier (1:58.18) in the 200 'fly. Olympic champion Matt Grevers had a clear edge on Eugene Godsoe in the 100m backstroke, 53.75 to 54.75; Chloe Sutton won the 800m free in 8:33.34; and Michael McBroom took the 1500m free in 15:16.41.
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