Ryan Swims Fastest Times in 200 Free and 100 Fly Heats

Ryan safely made it into today's finals for the 200 Free and the semi-finals for the 100 Fly by swimming the fastest times in the heats for both events.

Here are the qualifiers for the 200 Free final:

1 LOCHTE Ryan  - 1:42.41
2 ANDRUSENKO Viatcheslav -1:43.98
3 BIEDERMANN Paul -1:44.05
4 STANLEY Matthew -1:44.13
5 KILLEY Jarrod - 1:44.33
6 DWYER Conor -1:44.61
7 COLUPAEV Dimitri - 1:44.84
7 HOCKIN BRUSQUETTI Benjamin - 1:44.84

The lane assignments for the final are:

1 - Colupaev
2 - Killey
3 - Biedermann
4 - Lochte
5 - Andrusenko
6 - Stanley
7 - Dwyer
8 - Hockin Brusquetti

The WR for the 200 Free is 1:39.37 (a suit time) held by Paul Biedermann of Germany.  Ryan has the textile WR of 1:41.08, which was set at the 2010 Short Course World Championships in Dubai.  Let's see if he can beat it tonight.

Here are the qualifiers for the 100 Fly semi-finals:

1 LOCHTE Ryan - 50.16
2 WU Peng - 50.49
3 LE CLOS Chad - 50.73
4 VERLINDEN Joeri - 50.81
5 SHIELDS Thomas - 50.82
6 CSEH Laszlo - 50.86
7 MANKOC Peter - 50.99
8 KANEDA Kazuya - 51.00
9 TO Kenneth - 51.06
10 DUNFORD Jason - 51.14
11 CZERNIAK Konrad - 51.15
12 RIVOLTA Matteo - 51.19 1
13 SKVORTSOV Nikolay - 51.29
13 MUÑOZ PEREZ Rafael - 51.29
15 HEERSBRANDT François BEL - 51.31
16 TSURKIN Yauhen - 51.47

Ryan will be in Heat 2 of the semi-finals, lane 4 - right next to Chad Le Clos in lane 5.  The WR for the 100 Fly is 48.48, a suit record.  The textile WR is 49.07 held by Ian Crocker.  I think that record is in jeopardy in the finals given this strong field.

With respect to the 4 x 100 free relay, the US qualified second with a team of Anthony Ervin, Garrett Weber-Gale, Tyler Reed and Jimmy Feigen.  I think for the finals tonight the US will swap out Matt Grevers for Tyler Reed.