2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Kate Douglass‘s versatility is sort of unparalleled. Regardless of being the American Document holder within the 50 free, Douglass opted to not swim that occasion this morning and as a substitute to focus on the finals of the 200 IM. Some would say this transfer paid off in spades, as she demolished her personal U.S. Open Document and posted a time of two:06.79.
Her time this night eclipses her former private greatest of two:07.05 from final February’s Doha World Championships.
Fly | Again | Breast | Free | |
New PB and US Open | 26.78 | 1:00.05 (33.27) | 1:36.62 (36.57) | 2:06.79 (30.17) |
Outdated PB | 26.81 | 1:00.04 (33.23) | 1:36.84 (36.80) | 2:07.05 (30.21) |
Kukors AR. | 27.72 | 59.24 (31.52) | 1:36.31 (37.43) | 2:06.15 (29.84) |
Not solely is the swim a brand new US Open report, surpassing her 2:07.09 from final summer season’s Nationals, but it surely additionally strikes her into rarefied air as she is now simply considered one of six swimmers to have damaged the two:07 barrier, and he or she ranks because the fourth quickest.
Quickest Ladies’s 200 IM Performers
- Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015) – 2:06.12
- Ariana Kukors, USA (2009) – 2:06.15
- Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2024) – 2:06.63
- Kate Douglass, USA (2024) – 2:06.79
- Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, GBR (2016) – 2:06.88
- Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2023) – 2:06.89
With each McKeown and McIntosh more likely to swim this occasion in Paris and Douglass becoming a member of the sub 2:07 membership, this occasion would be the quickest the 200 IM has ever been. Alex Walsh, who has a private greatest of two:07.13, ranks because the seventh quickest performer in historical past, and the pair are the one two American swimmers who’re inside a second of Kukor’s legendary American report from the 2009 Rome World Championships, the place Kukors set a then World Document of two:06.15. The following quickest American is the retired Kathleen Baker, whose greatest was 2:08.32.
WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY— FINAL
- World Document: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2015)
- World Junior Document: 2:06.89 – Summer time McIntosh, Canada (2023)
- American Document: 2:06.15 – Ariana Kukors (2009)
U.S. Open Document: 2:07.09 – Kate Douglass, USA (2023)- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Alex Walsh – 2:09.30
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 2:11.47
Closing:
- Kate Douglass (NYAC), 2:06.79 U.S. Open Document, CR
- Alex Walsh (NAC), 2:07.86
- Isabel Ivey (GSC), 2:10.09
- Beata Nelson (UN), 2:10.38
- Leah Hayes (TIDE), 2:11.81
- Zoe Dixon (FLOR), 2:12.01
- Lilla Bognar (TG), 2:12.48
- Lucy Bell (ALTO), 2:13.67
Kate Douglass has completed it — she smashes her U.S. Open Document from 2023 and turns into the 4th quickest performer in historical past with a blistering 2:06.79. She’s simply the sixth girl in historical past to get beneath the two:07 barrier on this occasion. She and her Virginia teammate Alex Walsh went 1-2 within the occasion, with Walsh punching her ticket to Paris and becoming a member of G. Walsh on an Olympic workforce collectively.
Douglass jumped on the race from the beginning; she opened the race in 26.78, about five-tenths beneath world report tempo. She was the one one who opened their race sub-27 as Beata Nelson turned 2nd in 27.23. By the 100 although, A. Walsh had inched up on Douglass. Douglass break up 33.27 on backstroke to A. Walsh’s 32.74, sustaining only a .13 lead.
A. Walsh continued to push on the breaststroke leg however Douglass gained slightly extra room with a 36.57 break up, widening the hole to two-tenths on the remaining flip. Douglass introduced her race house in 30.17, shaking off Walsh and dashing to her remaining time of two:06.79. That is her third occasion win at these Trials, including to her 100 free and 200 breast wins earlier within the week.
A. Walsh break up 31.04 within the freestyle leg. It’s the third slowest freestyle break up on this remaining, however Walsh had constructed up greater than sufficient of a spot throughout the remainder of the race that she touched second with none challengers round her. She clocked 2:07.86, a time she described herself as “proud of for now,” however continued that she was “excited to see what we are able to do in Paris” because the pair look to make a second-straight Olympic podium.
Isabel Ivey, in the meantime, charged in lane 1 on the freestyle leg. She closed in 29.92, shifting from fifth on the final flip all the way in which into third. Ivey posted 2:10.09, a second private greatest on this occasion at this meet.