2020 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEET
- Friday, March 13th – Sunday, March 15th
- Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 50m (LCM)
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A host of SwimSwam’s 5 races to watch took place on day 1 here of this Edinburgh International Swim Meet, with the men’s 200m freestyle among them.
As we expected, the men’s final saw a furious battle among Duncan Scott, James Guy, Tom Dean and more, with the latter pulling out the win in a statement-making lifetime best of 1:46.03.
The big players played it cool this morning, letting Cesar Valle take the top seed in 1:49.04. Guy clocked 1:49.35, Scott 1:49.56 and Dean also 1:49.56 to represent the sub-1:50 swimmers of the heats.
During tonight’s final, however, Scott took the first 100 out quick in a 51.84 opener, before Dean surged to the lead and hit the wall first in that 1:46.03. That gave him over a half-second advantage over the 2015 World Champion in this event, James Guy, who touched in 1:46.79 for runner-up. Scott rounded out the top 3 in 1:47.39.
As for Dean, the man’s previous personal best rested at the 1:46.86 he produced at the 2019 British Swimming Championships, a time which rendered the 19-year-old Bath swimmer as Great Britain’s 9th fastest performer all-time.
By dropping .83 with his in-season swim here, Dean now rockets himself to become the 4th fastest performer ever for Great Britain.
| 1 | Duncan Scott | UniOfStirl | 97 | The 18th FINA World Championships | Gwangju, South Korea | 1 | 26/07/19 | 1:44.91 |
| 2 | James Guy | Millfield | 95 | World Championships 2015 | Kazan | 1 | 04/08/15 | 1:45.14 |
| 3 | Robert Renwick | UniOfStirl | 88 | 13th Fina World Champs2009 | Rome | 1 | 31/07/09 | 1:45.99 |
| 4 | Tom Dean | Bath | Edinburgh Int’l Swim Meet | Edinburgh | 1 | 13/03/20 | 1:46.03 |
Guy’s time was super solid as well, representing the 24-year-old’s best-ever in-season time.
Dean, Guy and Scott were combined with Calum Jarvis on the men’s 4×200 freestyle relay at teh 2019 World Championships, where they finished an uncharacteristic 4th. Splits on that 7:02.04 relay from Gwangju included 1:44.91 (British NR) for Scott, 1:45.58 for Jarvis, 1:46.10 for Dean and 1:45.45 for Guy.
With Dean bumping up his individual performance here, that bodes well for the nation to boost its medal-contention capabilities come Tokyo.
DO NOT WORSHIP THE FALSE DEAN
Scottish record 22.29 from Callum Bain in the 50 free this morning. PB of 22.45 for Duncan Scott
Scottish record from Callum Bain in the 50 free this morning. 22.29. Scott second in pb of 22.45.
Calum is from Northern Ireland.
That means that Scott has tied the 50 free Scottish record then and could bring it down tonight.
But muh American gold medal!!
Fastest time for James guy this time in the season since 2016, He’s coming back.
Changed coaches. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him back at 1:45 form.
Dean looked sublime tonight, a full second PB in his first race of 2020 would indicate plenty left to come too – Exciting swimmer. Also, how nice to see Cesar Castro Valle swimming well again – Big talent, hopefully he can fulfil his potential now. He set a Spanish record (1.47.45) in fourth.
Can’t wait to see these guys in the 4×200 Free Relay!!
People seem to be looking at Australia and United States as the main threats but I think Great Britain will challenge for the gold as well.
They only going to get faster watch out GB coming !!