Retired Nicholas Santos Touches Out Michael Andrew In 50 Fly In Mexico

2023 JALISCO INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING CUP (MEX)

  • Thursday, February 23rd – Sunday, February 26th
  • Alberca del Polideportivo Metropolitano, Zapopan, Mexico
  • LCM (5om)
  • Results – Meet Mobile: 2023-02-23 Jalisco International Swimming Cup

Several American and Canadian stars are competing in Mexico at the 2023 Jalisco International Swimming Cup in Zapopan. Additionally, retired world champion and world record holder Nicholas Santos of Brazil made an appearance.

Through 2 days of the meet, Canadians Sydney Pickrem and Katerine Savard each earned some hardware.

Pickrem topped the women’s 100m breaststroke podium in a time of 1:08.43, taking the evening by over a second.

As for Savard, she bagged two golds thus far, winning the women’s 200m free and 50m fly races. In the former, she produced a podium-topping effort of 2:02.42 while in the latter she logged a victorious result of 27.18.

43-year-old Santos took on his bread-and-butter 50m fly event, climbing atop the podium once again with a gold medal-worthy time of 23.44. That edged out American Michael Andrew who scored silver in 23.53 while Trinidad & Tobago Olympian Dylan Carter rounded out the top 3 in 23.70.

Although he’s retired, Santos now ranks #2 in the world in the 50m fly event, sitting only behind leader Takeshi Kawamoto of Japan who holds the top time in 23.26. Andrew now ranks 5th and Carter also makes it into the top 10.

2022-2023 LCM Men 50 Fly

OlegRUS
Kostin
04/19
22.62
2Thomas
Ceccon
ITA22.6807/24
3Maxime
Grousset
FRA22.7407/23
4Diogo
Ribeiro
POR22.80 WJR07/24
5Michael
Andrew
USA22.8505/21
6Jacob
Peters
GBR22.8407/24
7Dylan
Carter
TTO22.8907/23
8Ben
Proud
GBR22.9107/24
9Szebasztian
Szabo
HUN22.9304/21
10Egor
Yurchenko
RUS22.9404/20
View Top 26»

Andrew had also earlier competed in the 100m breaststroke where he touched in 1:00.81. Behind him was American teammate Chase Kalisz who stopped the clock in 1:02.15 as the silver medalist.

Olympic medalist Jay Litherland is also at the meet, with the 27-year-old grabbing gold in the men’s 200m free in a time of 1:52.27.

The action continues with today’s finals beginning at 7:00 pm local.

In This Story

35
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

35 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Hank
1 year ago

It sounds like MA is in good form. 1:00:81 100br is pretty solid right now for a random off-season meet in Mexico.

Louiggi
1 year ago

43 vs. mother’s milk

Stephanie
Reply to  Louiggi
1 year ago

I’m loving this!

Bossanova
1 year ago

Stick a fork in MA he’s done. Next gig will be sports reporter for OAN

IM FAN
Reply to  Bossanova
1 year ago

Who knows? When he done with swimming professionally perhaps wherever he goes in life will open up his perspective.

While some aspects of his life sound like a dream, the fact of the matter is he was raised with parents who home schooled him and sheltered him since they were afraid of him learning about evolution, and who discouraged him from seeking higher education since it’s “brainwashing”. It’s not funny to me, it’s just sad. And while sometimes my reaction to that would just be to laugh, today I want to hope that where he goes next on his journey will give him a change of heart.

HJones
Reply to  Bossanova
1 year ago

In all seriousness, he is trending in the wrong direction heading to Paris. Unfortunate, but it looks like he peaked at 2021 trials.

Owlmando
1 year ago

This foo def gon make a run at worlds or can he not anymore?

Greg
Reply to  Owlmando
1 year ago

He can and he will.

Owlmando
1 year ago

How can you be retired and race?

SprintDude9000
Reply to  Owlmando
1 year ago

Because you are Nicholas Santos

HJones
1 year ago

Santos should try to give it a go for this summer’s LC worlds. With no Dressel in the 50 FL, he could try to end his career with his first WC gold.

Andrew
1 year ago

Even for someone not the biggest fan of MA, this headline is brutal lmao

Stephanie
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

I enjoy it 😁

Hank
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

MA?

Eugene
1 year ago

Imagine the headline: “Retired man outsplits MA on the freestyle leg of 200 IM” 💀

Fraser Thorpe
Reply to  Eugene
1 year ago

‘Retiree’ ?

Emily Se-Bom Lee
Reply to  Eugene
1 year ago

55 year old tamas darnyi splits 27 in 200 im

Hank
Reply to  Eugene
1 year ago

Imagine the headline: “Masters Swimmer outsplits MA on the freestyle leg of 200 IM” 😂

About Retta Race

Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.

Read More »