2023 AP RACE INTERNATIONAL MEET
- Saturday, May 27th – Monday, May 29th
- London Aquatic Center
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The inaugural AP Race International Meet continued from London Aquatic Center with several of Great Britain’s big guns back in the water.
Reigning Olympic champion Tom Dean fired off a time of 1:58.00 to take the men’s 200m IM, getting to the wall over 5 seconds ahead of the competition.
The 23-year-old has already been as quick as 1:56.65 in this event, a time he posted for the British national title last month.
Matt Richards was also among tonight’s winners, capturing gold in the men’s 100m free.
The Olympic relay champion posted a winning effort of 48.17 to get the edge over Dean who checked in at 48.35 for silver. Trinidad & Tobago Olympian Dylan Carter rounded out the top 3 in 48.65 this evening.
As for Richards, the 20-year-old reaped the national title in this event at the British Swimming Championships last month, reaping gold in Sheffield in a time of 47.72 to rank 4th in the world on the season.
Following up on his 100m breaststroke silver from yesterday was Germany’s Lucas Matzerath in the men’s 50m breast.
Matzerath upgraded to gold in a time of 27.01 to get to the wall .15 ahead of Dutch Olympic medalist Arno Kamminga who clocked 27.16. Germany’s Melvin Imoudu also clocked 27.16 to share the silver medal with Kamminga.
American Paige Madden earned the 200m free gold in a result of 1:57.62. She marked the only athlete in the final to get under 2:05, putting up a season-best result in the process.
Fellow American and Loughborough-trained Catie DeLoof snagged the top prize in the women’s 100m back, hitting 1:00.53. That beat out teammate Lauren Cox who snared silver in 1:00.88.
Dutch national record holder Tes Schouten got it done for gold in the women’s 100m breast, coming within striking distance of her own national record in the process.
Schouten clocked a winning time of 1:05.93, a result which fell only .22 shy of the 1:05.71 Dutch standard she posted in April at the Eindhoven qualification meet. That previous PB ranks Schouten as the #2 performer in the world this season.
Swden’s Sophie Hansson secured silver in tonight’s race in 1:05.99 while South Africa’s Lara van Niekerk also landed on the podium in 1:o7.34 for bronze. Hansson’s performance checks in as the 4th-quickest of her career.
Additional Winners
- Austria’s Felix Auboeck earned 400m free gold in a time of 3:48.41 to get to the wall over 2 seconds ahead of Irish dynamo Daniel Wiffen. Wiffen settled for silver in 3:50.88.
- The women’s 400m IM saw Holly Robinson capture gold in a time of 4:54.33.
- Fritz Dietz topped the men’s 50m back podium in a time of 26.13.
- British open water ace Alice Dearing was first to the wall in the women’s 1500m free, producing a mark of 16:50.75 as the sole competitor to get under 17:00.
- Louise Hansson of Sweden logged a time of 26.30 to grab gold in the women’s 50m fly. She’s already been as fast as 25.92 this season from February’s Lausanne Swi Cup.
- Czech swimmer Ondrej Gemov topped the men’s 200m fly podium in a mark of 1:57.20.
if an american posted this time it’d have 10+ comments
To be fair, this is a great in-season time but Richards has been half a second faster already a month ago at trials and other Brits have been very fast too. If an American swam this time it would be their best time this year by over half a second so would be more of a big deal.
He’s already been faster this season.
So…?
The population of the US is like 5 times the population of the UK, so baseline you’d expect more comments
And this is (still, I think) a majority US site, too.
Hansson went 1:06.99 not 1:05.99
Great swim, and as I suspected during British Champs Tom Dean is starting to find his speed as summer approaches – Expect him to be back under 48s in July.
I’m rooting for a GB gold in the 100 free relay. They’ve had the talent for it a few times but never quite pulled it together when they needed to
Would not express it in such terms (said term has different connotations to my generation LOL) but I would certainly agree that GBR is one of the 3 teams with the necessary firepower to win this relay. Sooner or later, they are going to get it together and would not be surprised it that proves to be this year or in Paris.
Dean mentioned on his podcast that his hands came apart upon the dive entry at British Champs and he basically came to a stop underwater so yeah I’m confident he can replicate that Commies speed
Which podcast
The Weekly Freestyle
1:57 from Madden is a very good time 1 month out from Trials.
I think that she Will be parte of relay this year!
1. Ledecky
2. Gemmel
3. Sims
4. Madden
5. Peplowski
6. Weinstein/L.Smith/Walsh/Grimes
Opinions in the comments, please!😊
I wouldn’t be surprised if Regan Smith gets on there… not sure how the schedule works though
No conflict for the heats, conflicts with 200 fly and 50 back for the final though
… part of the relay THIS year.
https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2023-nationals-event-order.pdf
I was talking about conflicts at Worlds, not trials
I suspect she will focus on best events and skip the freestyles. For the 200, unless something goes wonky I don’t know why Weinstein wouldn’t drop some time which would put her in the top 6 and maybe contending for an individual spot. I know we always over-predict fast times at trials but with all the depth it might take 1:56 to even be an alternate.
I seriously doubt Regan Smith will swim the freestyle events at the 2023 Phillips 66 National Championships.
2023 Phillips 66 National Championships
Day 1 – 200 FL
Day 2 – 200 BK
Day 3 – 100 FL
Day 4 – 100 BK
Day 5 – Off
https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2023-nationals-event-order.pdf
200 back same day
Anna Peplowski (1:57.02) and Erin Gemmell (1:57.11) has been faster than Paige Madden (1:57.62) in the W 200 FR during calendar year 2023.