Friday, August 6, 2010

Ryan qualified for tonight's finals for 100m free and 200m IM



100m Free - Ryan qualified 5th with a time of 49.17. If he swims in tonight's final, he will be in lane 2. Other swimmers qualifying for the A final were (in order of finish) Jason Lezak, David Walters, Nathan Adrian, Garrett Weber-Gale, Matt Grevers, Nick Brunelli and Scott Robison.
200m IM - Ryan qualified 3rd with a time of 2:00.69. I had to laugh when I saw his splits. He would have placed first except he took it very easy on the freestyle leg. His splits were: 25.38 (fly) 30.14 (back) 34.15 (breast) and 31.02 (free). By comparison, Michael Phelps and Tyler Clary, who finished 1st and 2nd, had freestyle splits of 28.75 and 28.59. Other qualifiers (in order of finish) were Todd Patrick, David Nolan, Conor Dwyer, Austin Surhoff and Eric Shanteau. Ryan will be in lane 3 for tonight's final. Can't wait for this race!

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