2024 Speedo Sectionals – Ocala
Outcomes
The third day of the 2024 Speedo Sectionals meet in Ocala, FL was a brief one, that includes solely the 400 free, 100 fly, and 200 breast individually.
Following her win within the ladies’s 800 free on Thursday night time, College of Minnesota’s Katie McCarthy was again in motion within the ladies’s 400 free as we speak. After clocking a field-leading 4:17.12 in prelims this morning, McCarthy gained the race decisively tonight, swimming a 4:14.96. That efficiency is available in lower than a tenth-of-a-second off her profession better of 4:14.89, which she swam at US Nationals final summer time.
17-year-old Thomas Frost out of Loggerhead Aquatics gained the lads’s 400 free in a really tight race with Swim Fort Lauderdale’s Dylan Felt (19), and South Florida Aquatic Membership’s Juan Vallmitjana (15). Frost had an enormous swim, getting into the meet with a private better of 4:02.25, then successful in 3:57.21 tonight. In the meantime, Felt clocked a large private greatest of three:54.70 in prelims, choosing up the Olympic Trials minimize (3:55.59), then got here in 2nd with a 3:57.26 in finals tonight. The teen of the group, 15-year-old Vallmitjana, got here in third with a 3:57.60, clipping his earlier greatest of three:57.98, which he swam earlier this month. Frost was out the quickest, whereas each Felt and Vallmitjana each closed on him over the again half of the race.
23-year-old Lismar Lyon, who represents Venezuela internationally, gained the ladies’s 100 fly tonight in 59.78. That swim marks a profession greatest for Lyon, placing her inside half a second of the Venezuelan Report of 59.37.
College of Minnesota’s Kaiser Neverman took the lads’s 100 fly in 53.51, touching out teammate Davide Harabagiu (53.68). Neverman holds a profession better of 52.96, which he swam again in 2022.
The ladies’s 200 breast noticed Florida State’s Madeline Huggins declare victory in 2:30.85. Coming into the day, Huggins private greatest was a 2:33.23, which she swam in 2021. With the efficiency, Huggins picked up the Olympic Trials minimize of two:31.69. Moreover, Commonwealth Swimming 19-year-old Sarah Bernard swam a 2:31.45 in prelims, marking a brand new profession greatest, in addition to a brand new Olympic Trials minimize.
Hurricane Aquatics 17-year-old Giulian Martin gained the lads’s 200 breast in 2:16.33. Whereas that point was simply off the Trials minimize of two:15.99, Martin’s profession greatest is a 2:13.91, which he swam on the Futures Championship in Ocala final summer time. The swim does mark Martin’s quickest of 2024, nonetheless.
Relay Winners
