Charlotte Ultraswim - Sunday Finals

Ryan swam great tonight, finishing first in the 200 back and second in the 100 free. Both races were exciting and he came from behind to win.

Ryan won the 200m back with a time of 1:58.93. I think Ryan's time is very good considering how hard he is training and he was wearing a speedo brief. Ryan's time would have placed him 3rd in last year's Ultraswim finals, even though most of the swimmers last year were wearing high tech suits.

The race can be watched here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N162fN8QXR4


Ryan tied with Peter Vanderkaay for second in the 100m free with a time of 50.29. The winner was Gideon Louw at 50.09. Ryan again swam in a speedo brief and not jammers like most of the other swimmers. Ryan's time would have placed him 6th in last year's Ultraswim with high tech suits and Fred Bousquet.

The race can be watched here:

http://www.swimnetwork.com/Multimedia/Media-Center.aspx#/id=c14ca2a4-a514-437e-b862-4dadc6f94ea1

Charlotte Ultraswim - Sunday Prelim Results

Love this interview by Garrett McCaffrey. We learn that Ryan still can't swim breaststroke but he is hoping to be able to swim a 200 IM at the Santa Clara GP in June. Also, we learn that it was his coach's decision to scratch the 100 back final last night.

Ryan did well in this morning's prelims. He finished 3rd in the 200m back with a time of 2:03.14. Only Matt Grevers and Rex Tullius had better prelim times. He finished 1st in the 100m free with a time of 50.58.

Really looking forward to tonight's finals. Hope the coach doesn't scratch any more events!

Charlotte Ultraswim update - Friday & Saturday results & Sunday preview

For lots of great meet photos, go to Ryan's official facebook page. For results and race videos, go to swimnetwork.com

Sorry I have been busy and unable to update. There's one day left in the Charlotte Ultraswim. Here's what has happened so far.

Friday, May 14 - Finals

• 200m Free

Ryan came in 3rd with a time of 1:49.05. Michael Phelps was first in 1:47.73 and Peter Vanderkaay was second in 1:47.77. Video of the race can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkkx7PdyWwA

• 100m Fly

Ryan came in 5th with a time of 54.48. Michael Phelps was first with a 52.41, Tyler McGill second in 53.13, Timothy Phillips third in 53.91 and Ricky Berens fourth in 54.31. Video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkPpRoUwOo

Saturday, May 15 - Prelims

• 100m Back

Ryan swam well in the 100 back prelims, finishing 6th with a time of 55.98. He qualified for the "A" final but ended up scratching. More on this below.

• 400m Free

Ryan's time in the 400 free prelims was 4:01.83, good enough for a 4th place seed in the A final.

Saturday, May 15 - Finals

• 100m Back

Ryan scratched the finals of the 100m Back. No clue why he did this, except maybe he wanted to do his best in the 400 free to see if that is an event he wants to swim at Nationals this summer. If Ryan's knee injury prevents him from swimming breaststroke, he will need something to replace the 400 IM. The 400 free and 400 IM are usually swum on the same day in international meets.

It was disappointing as a fan to see Ryan scratch the 100 back, but it was an exciting race nonetheless. Nick Thoman won with a time of 53.70. Michael Phelps was second in 53.92.

• 400m free

Ryan finished second in the finals behind Peter Vanderkaay. Ryan's time was 3:55.50 and PVK's time was 3:48.94. The race was not really close and Ryan looked pretty tired at the end. He barely out-touched Ricky Berens to get second place.

Notably, Ryan's time was a full 6 seconds faster than the time he had the finals of last year's 400 free, which was 4:01.53. That's impressive.

The race can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXoMjm4GD70

Sunday, May 16 - Prelims

• 200m Back - Heat 8 of 9 Prelims

  1  Patton, Matthew               23 Club Wolverine-MI         2:05.96  NAT
2  Darmody, Kevin                17 SwimMAC Carolina-NC       2:03.38  NAT
3  Tullius, Rexford              23 Daytona Beach-FL          1:59.90  NAT
4  Thoman, Nicholas              24 SwimMAC Carolina-NC       1:54.59  NAT
5  Lochte, Ryan                  25 Daytona Beach-FL          1:57.50  NAT 
6  McCarroll, Connor             19 Club Wolverine-MI         2:02.36  NAT
7  Ford, Andrew                  20 Swim Ontario              2:05.07  NAT
8  Best, Adam                    18 GO Kingfish               2:06.11  NAT 

• 100m Free - Heat 16 of 17 Prelims
  

  1  Phillips, Timothy             19 UN-Ohio Swimming-OH         50.72  NAT
2  Robison, Scott                21 New South-NC                49.94  NAT
3  Lundquist, Bryan              24 Stingrays-GA                49.14  NAT
4  Grevers, Matt                 25 Tucson Ford-AZ              48.27  NAT
5  Brunelli, Nicholas            28 SwimMAC Carolina-NC         48.52  NAT
6  Vanderkaay, Peter             26 Club Wolverine-MI           49.71  NAT
7  Lochte, Ryan                  25 Daytona Beach-FL            50.50  NAT 
8  Godsoe, Eugene                22 UN-N. Carolina-NC           50.96  NAT

Ultraswim - Friday May 14 Prelim Results

Ryan will swim in the finals of the 200 free and 100 fly tonight. He qualified 3rd in the 200 free with a time of 1:50.79 and 5th in the 100 fly with a time of 55.09. Finals begin at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time and can be watched live on http://www.universalsports.com/.

Here are the top 8 swimmers in both of those events:

200m Free

1 Vanderkaay, Peter 1:49.07
2 Berens, Ricky 1:50.41
3 Lochte, Ryan 1:50.79
4 Harrison, Ryan 1:51.00
5 Dwyer, Conor 1:51.56
6 Patton, Matthew 1:52.55
7 Phelps, Michael 1:53.47
8 Cormier, Kyle 1:53.58

100m Fly

1 Phelps, Michael 54.07
2 McGill, Tyler 54.21
3 Phillips, Timothy 54.22
4 Thoman, Nicholas 54.88
5 Lochte, Ryan 55.09
6 Berens, Ricky 55.19
7 Wyher, Tommy 55.20
8 Jones, Cullen 55.34
8 Grevers, Matt 55.34

Cullen Jones and Matt Grevers tied and will have a swimoff before the finals.

Swimnetwork fixed the link to the Ryan Lochte pre-meet interview video. Swimnetwork videos will never embed so you can watch it at this link:

http://www.swimnetwork.com/Multimedia/Media-Center.aspx#/id=b26fb756-c7b2-4260-bd1c-6f1bbd31042e

Charlotte Ultraswim - 200 free & 100 fly on Friday!

Event 4 - 200m Free
Prelims start at about 9:37 a.m. Eastern Time

Heat 13 of 15 Prelims 
1  Novakoff, Andrew              20 UN-Univ. of Mich-MI       1:52.05  NAT 
2  Wu, Peng                      22 Club Wolverine-MI         1:50.58  NAT 
3  Lochte, Ryan                  25 Daytona Beach-FL          1:49.00  NAT 
4  Vanderkaay, Peter             26 Club Wolverine-MI         1:45.77  NAT 
5  DeJong, Adam                  22 Club Wolverine-MI         1:48.66  NAT 
6  Peirsol, Aaron                26 Longhorn Aquatic-ST       1:49.84  NAT 
7  Cormier, Jay                  23 SwimMAC Carolina-NC       1:51.17  NAT 
8  Dsouza, Aaron                 17 Davie Nadadores-FG        1:52.22  NAT 

Event 8 - 100m Fly
Prelims start at about 10:57 a.m. Eastern Time

Heat 13 of 13 Prelims

  1  Lochte, Ryan                  25 Daytona Beach-FL            55.00  NAT 
2  Bussolin, Federico            20 Rari Nantes                 54.29  NAT 
3  Phillips, Timothy             19 UN-Ohio Swimming-OH         52.88  NAT 
4  Phelps, Michael               24 North Baltimore-MD          49.82  NAT 
5  Berens, Ricky                 22 UN-Longhorn Aqua-ST         51.98  NAT 
6  Godsoe, Eugene                22 UN-SwimMAC-NC               53.79  NAT 
7  Booth, William                21 Schenectady-Sara-AD         54.90  NAT 
8  Murphy, Patrick               18 North Baltimore-MD          55.21  NAT 

Live Results can be found here:
http://charlotteultraswim.com/results10/index.htm

Prelims will air live on www.swimnetwork.com starting at 9 a.m. Eastern Time

Here's an article on 5 races to watch at Ultraswim....tomorrow's 200 free is #5 and 100 fly is #3!

http://www.swimnetwork.com/News/Swimming/Blogs/Mike-Gustafson/2010/05/Charlotte-Ultraswim-Preview.aspx

Swimnetwork.com has pre-meet interviews with the Olympians, including Ryan, but his video did not get posted and Ricky Berens' video was posted twice & labeled as Ryan Lochte. Hope that gets fixed soon.

Charlotte Ultraswim - May 13-16, 2010

The Charlotte Ultraswim, which will take place in about 2 weeks, released a preliminary psyche sheet today. Ryan has entered six events: 100/200 back, 100/200/400 free and 100 fly. As expected, he did not enter either the 200 or 400 IM.

Of most interest to me was his entry times. For almost every event the entry times were slower than Ryan's best times. I have no idea what that means for an elite swimmer, but it suggests to me a tentativeness....like this entire meet is just a test to see where he is at in training.

Here is his schedule:

Event 4 - 200m Free - 9th seed (1:49.0)
Also entered: Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, Pete Vanderkaay, Garrett Weber-Gale, Aaron Peirsol

Event 8 - 100m Fly - 18th seed (55.0)
Also entered: Michael Phelps, Tyler McGill, Aaron Peirsol, Ricky Berens

Event 18 - 100m Back - 5th seed (54.8)
Also entered: Aaron Peirsol, Nick Thoman, David Plummer, Michael Phelps

Event 22 - 400m Free - 2nd seed (3:49.25)
Also entered: Peter Vanderkaay

Event 30 - 200m Back - 4th seed (1:57.5)
Also entered: Aaron Peirsol, Nick Thoman, Ian Clark

Event 32 - 100m Free - 17th Seed (50.5)
Also entered: Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, Ricky Berens, Nick Brunelli, George Bovell