Missouri Grand Prix Prelims - Saturday, Feb. 13

After skipping last night's finals, Ryan swam in this morning's prelims in both the 50 free and 100 back. He qualified for tonight's "A" final in both. Here are the results:

50m free prelims
1 Hayden, Brent 23.04
2 Copeland, William 23.23
3 Kishida, Masayu 23.43
4 Burnett, Simon 23.58
5 Clark, Bennett 23.69
6 Lochte, Ryan 23.71
7 Weber-Gale, Garrett 23.90
8 Cambindo, Juan 23.93

100m back prelims

1 Thoman, Nicholas            56.43 
 2 Hawes, Matthew            57.32 
 2 Schirk, Patrick                57.32 
 4 Russell, David                 57.34 
 5 Lochte, Ryan S               57.64 
 6 Konarzewski, J               57.76 
 7 Pereira, Thiago               57.79 
 8 Janusaitis, Vyt               58.06

In the 100 back, Ryan really went for it on the first 50.  His split was 27.92, which was way faster
than everybody else.  Nick Thoman's first 50 was the next fastest at 28.66.

Like yesterday, I wanted to compare Ryan's times in these prelims with last year to see how he is
doing.  Last year Ryan didn't swim the 50 free.  In the 100 back, he had a 56.39 in the prelims and a
55.16 in the finals.  Faster last year but we'll see what happens in tonight's finals.

Finally an article about Ryan's knee injury, with the headline "Lochte busts a move, breaks his knee."
So happy someone from the press finally asked him about his injury.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/feb/13/lochte-busts-a-move-breaks-his-knee/