2019 WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES/SUMMER UNIVERSIADE – SWIMMING
- July 4th-9th, 2019
- Napoli, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Live Stream: Olympic Channel (in US), Rai Sport (in Italy)
- Entry Lists & Live Results
After being disqualified in prelims of the 200 IM on Friday at the 2019 World University Games, Texas postgrad John Shebat reportedly swam a new (unofficial) lifetime best in warmups on Saturday, according to his coach Wyatt Collins.
Collins posted an Instagram photo with Shebat and a photo of his stopwatch, showing that Shebat had swum a 1:58.28. No video of the swim was posted to allow for independent verification of that time.
Shebat clocked a 2:01.1 in prelims en route to the disqualification. Both American entrants in the race, including he and fellow Longhorn Sam Stewart, were disqualified in prelims. Shebat’s official best time in the event is 1:59.45: the swim at Summer Nationals last year that qualified him for this meet. The 200 IM was his only individual entry at the meet. If we’re presuming authenticity of the 1:58.2, that swim would have been the fastest in Friday evening’s semi-final ahead of Great Britain’s Joe Litchfield (1:59.85). Litchfield’s lifetime best is 1:59.36. The top seed coming into the meet, Mark Szaranek, missed the final.
The original DQ of Shebat was called for a one-handed turn on breaststroke to freestyle. Collins referred to the call as “questionable” in his post.
Shebat would have to swim at US Nationals to earn his spot on the US National team, which becomes more crucial now that he is a postgrad/professional swimmer.
Sad they can’t recognize fast turns
I think that 1:58.20 still done with an one-handed touch breaststroke turn, so he is still disqualified, if this was in the real competition. 😀
So based on 1:28.1 to the 150, I’d have to guess that Shebat was something like 25.0-28high-34low on fl-bk-br.
Splits in his official best time (1:59.45) are 25.3-29.6-35.3-29.1.
And here starts the “yeah, but he would’ve won” argument. That’s what PVDH (rightfully) was railing about. There’s the official race and nothing else. Bring it then or go home.
Hmmm… thanks for contributing your insightful comment to the world of competition..
The Texas hate is strong in this thread.
The kid didn’t get to show his stuff on full taper. It will be hard to be as fast in three weeks at Nats. Nothing wrong with the post. We are in a social media bragging age. It’s what you do.
If Wyatt was a little generous with the watch you still have a general idea of his speed. While he had no pressure and clean water, he also had no competition to pace him, no crowd to adrenalize him.
Good swim by John. He will get his shot next July
agreed on that too
That’s how I see it too – I’d be absolutely pissed it I got DQ’d in my only event at a taper meet, without having been able to fully show how fast I could go.
Doing a warmup time trial makes a lot of sense, because a great result could be massive for the swimmer’s confidence after what I assume would’ve been a tough day when he got DQ’d.
I agree with this- it is really impressive to do this without the racing atmosphere. I’ve always struggled to perform my best in a “time trial” or warmup type atmosphere.
I’ve never heard Eddie brag about anything. If anything, he would’ve made some deprecating joke about “now do it in a real meet.”
I was hoping he could do a time trial
30.1 on free? Must have been on WR pace at the 100
It almost looks to me like the 30.1 is clocking a 50 done AFTER the 200 IM (noting the bottom time of 2:37).
1:58.2 to 2:37 is 39 seconds though…
Mind blown.
The watch shows it’s on the 4th lap though, not the 5th, so it would have to be the last 50.
Hmm…good point, I missed that.
Shebat goes 1:58 to his feet confirmed.
The Brooke Ford of the men’s world.
Did he swim it legally this time ??
Stopwatches have a recall button in the middle, which he probably pressed to show the final split (1:58) and the 30.1.
Great swim for John and way to bounce back. 200 will be fun at trials with a few names in the mix, Licon, Seli, Dressel, Kalisz, Andrew, Prenot, Devine, Bentz, and Lochte? Nolan? Not sure what’s up with those two.
30.1 last 50 is very slow for a 1:58 IM. Must have gone out like a rocket.
I don’t have any idea what his breast is like but let’s assume 33 if he’s really fast + 30 seconds for the free, which leaves 55 seconds plus for the fly and back. Is that even feasible for him?
Looks like it is feasible and real
Tell that to MA….
Trains all season long then gets DQed in his only event. Dont blame him for making the unnoficial time public. Anyone know what he was dqed for?
He’s still got Nats
Aren’t they rebranding nats this year since it doesn’t really count for anything?
Tell that to Luca.
Good for John I guess. Kind of a weird thing to brag about on social media
Wyatt Collins is very passionate about his swimmers. He knows their work ethic and I would imagine wanted to prove to JOHN ( not us!) what he was capable of doing. I think it’d be amazing to have a coach who was that fired up about an unofficial swim. John looks inspired. You may be annoyed but I’d say coach’s mission was accomplished.
Bragging about a hand timed, no pressure swim isn’t fair to the other swimmers actually in the final.
This is to me a bizarre take. The swimmers in the final get to be in the final and get all the credit that comes with that. I hope they swim well and achieve their goals! If they are bothered by a post like this there’s something seriously wrong.
Not sure about that. It certainly can be interpreted as a “Yeah, but he would’ve won” to the winner, his family, teammates, and friends. WTF brag at all? Seriously doubt that’s what Eddie would’ve done.
Kind of wired explanation…he wasn’t having a bad swim so not getting to semi. How did a fast practice swim help with the turn that was called for his dq?
Maybe coach just want him to practice the process of getting ready for fast swim in a meet setting like this?
Are you serious? I don’t think it was the 2 hand touch they were “working on.” Lol It was about trying to achieve a best time which is what they’ve been training for.
No, I did not say or think they are practicing the turn.
As a discussion, I was thinking what is the learning for swimmer and how a coach to help the swimmer after being dq in one of the target meet.
That asides, I assumed he did the warm up etc as he prep for a real race, the outcome was very exciting (best time) so the coach share.
anybody can see the passion of his coach on the picture ….
Errr….if it was just to prove to John what he was capable of, he could have just shown John the time. Are we now “IG official” like when dating got to be “FB official”?