Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Hannah Hecht.
MEN’S 200 BACK – FINALS
- Jonathan Roberts, Texas: 1:58.74
- Matt Grevers, Tucson Ford: 2:00.01
- Will Glass, CMSA: 2:00.69
Texas’s Jonathan Roberts surprised the crowd with a big-time over-a-second victory over defending Olympic champion in the 100 distance Matt Grevers. Roberts, a rising Texas junior who didn’t even make the B final at NCAAs this year in this event, swam 1:58.74 to Grevers’s 2:00.01 tonight.
Roberts’s performance tonight makes him the 10th fastest American this season in this event. Grevers’s best performance this season is an 18th-in-the-world 1:57.24 from AT&T Winter Nationals in December.
Will Glass scored third place in 2:00.69, followed by Egypt native Mohamed Hussein in 2:02.88.
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Can I getta hot tub?!
Someone get this man a hot tub cause he deserves it.
I think he should definitely start training more backstroke. That is my cutting-edge coaching advice. But geez if he goes a 1:58 without really training, maybe he shouldn’t change anything…