2024 Speedo Summer Championships: Top Qualifier Gabrielle Rose Drops 100 Breast Final on Day 1

2024 Speedo Summer Championships

• Tuesday, July 23 – Saturday, July 27,2024
• Prelims 9AM, finals 5PM (Pacific Time)
• LCM (50 meters)
• Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, California
• Meet Central
• Pre–scratch Psych Sheet
• Live Results
• Live Stream

TUESDAY EVENING HEAT SHEETS

After posting the top time in the 100 breast this morning, Alpha Aquatics’ Gabrielle Rose has scratched the final. The 46-year-old went 32.0/36.6 in heats to lead the field by .51, only .34 off her entry time. That will move the #9 qualifier, Mary Elizabeth Cespedes (1:10.66) of Valparaiso Swim Club into the A Final and #17 Bianca Nwaizu (1:11.23), from the home team Irvine Novaquatics, into lane 8 of the B Final. Nwaizu and A-finalist Grace Koenig-Song of NASA Wildcats (7th, 1:10.16) are both 14 years old.

Scarlet Aquatics’ Kate Hurst, who posted the 16th time (2:19.00) in heats of the 200 fly, dropped out of the B Final. She will be replaced by Santa Clara Swim Club’s Davina Huang, who qualified 17th (2:19.03). Hurst’s teammate Kathleen Turano also scratched the 200 fly final after adding 4.5 seconds to finish 26th (2:22.28) this morning. Both Hurst and Turano are in the fastest heat of women’s 800 free in tonight’s final.

In the men’s meet, there were no scratches among the top-16 qualifiers in either the 200 fly or the 100 breast.

A and B Final Scratches

Women’s 200 Fly

• #16 Kate Hurst, Scarlet Aquatics (2:19.00)

Men’s 200 Fly

• none

Women’s 100 Breast

• #1 Gabrielle Rose, Alpha Aquatics (1:08.66)

Men’s 100 Breast

• none