Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Tony Carroll.
One of the newest members of the Serbian National Team, Arkady Vyatchanin, dropped more than a second and a half to win the men’s 100 backstroke with his time of 53.69. That time is just outside of the top ten in the world at 11th this year. David Plummer finished second with a 53.90, and Junya Koga finished third with a 54.42.
Ryan Lochte and Eugene Godsoe were fourth and fifth in the men’s 100 backstroke. Lochte dropped a little more than a half second to improve to a time of 54.43, while Godsoe stayed above 55 seconds with a final time of 55.02.
Omar Pinzon finished with with a 55.39 to take sixth place, while Jack Conger and Guilherme Guido rounded out the A final in seventh and eighth.
