Russian breaststroker Yulia Efimova put up a second straight day of big swims on Sunday at the 2015 CA Southern California March Senior Invite in long course, as she had a very fast return from her 16-month doping suspension.
On Sunday, Efimova swam a world-leading 2:23.99 in the 200 meter breaststroke. Unlike the 100 on Saturday, that does bump Efimova to 3rd in the 2015 world rankings.
2014-2015 LCM Women 200 Breast
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| 2 | Kanako WATANABE | JPN | 2.20.90 | 04/12 |
| 3 | Rikke MOLLER PEDERSEN | DEN | 2.21.58 | 06/10 |
| 4 | Rie KANETOU | JPN | 2.21.90 | 04/12 |
| 5 | Micah LAWRENCE | USA | 2.22.04 | 08/06 |
As compared to Efimova’s own personal history, her endurance suffered a tiny bit at the end of this 200 breaststroke; she’s usually a hair better than the 37.3 that she split at the end of this race. Overall, though, it was a seven-second victory, and another solid swim in her return to action.
Other winners on Sunday:
- US National Teamer Katie McLaughlin won the women’s 100 fly in 1:00.97, beating out Chinese swimmer Shija Wang. McLaughlin again topped Wang in the 100 free, though by a tighter 56.36-56.72 margin.
- Alex Valente won the men’s 100 fly in 54.76.Cole Cogswell finished 6th in 58.26.
- The Russians went 1-2-3 in the men’s 100 free, with Nikita Lobintsev (49.68), Alexander Sukhorukov (49.81), and Vlad Morozov (49.82).
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Good for Yulia. Not saying that what she did before is to be overlooked, but to fight through that and come out swimming these times is impressive.
I say, “keep them doubting!” She has been very consistent over the years anyways!
If she were a chinese and trained in China, I doubt you would have said the same thing.
Abbey Weitzeil must be in a very heavy training period.
She swam 56.88 in the 100 free final.
Anyway, she isn’t usually a fast in-season swimmer.
Last year at the same period she was in 57.26.