Reported by Mitch Bowmile.
MEN’S 100M FREESTYLE SEMIFINALS
Top seed: Nathan Adrian (48.43)
World record: 46.91 – Cesar Cielo (Brazil)
American record: 47.33 – David Walters
U.S Open record: 47.58 – Jason Lezak
U.S Nationals record: 47.58 – Jason Lezak
JR World record: 48.25 – Matheus Santana (Brazil)
2012 Winning Time: 48.10 – Nathan Adrian
Nathan Adrian made an absolute statement in the men’s 100m freestyle; the reigning Olympic champion in the 100m freestyle has no plans to lose this final tomorrow night. With Caeleb Dressel right beside him, Adrian had an incredible last 50, separating himself from the field towards the end to touch the wall in 47.91.
That time for Adrian is the second fastest time in the world this season behind only Cameron McEvoy of Australia.
Dressel touched in second behind Adrian in 48.53 with Jimmy Feigen right behind him in 48.65. Dressel and Feigen take the third and fourth overall seeds heading into tomorrow night’s finals behind NC-State’s Ryan Held.
Although Anthony Ervin was out quick in the first semifinal, Held chased him down towards the end in order to get his hand on the wall first. Ervin faded to second behind Held with a 48.71, and goes into the final as the fifth seed overall.
Conor Dwyer just snuck into the final by one one-hundredth touching eighth overall. Matt Grevers did not make it.
TOP EIGHT
- Nathan Adrian (47.91)
- Ryan Held (48.48)
- Caeleb Dressel (48.53)
- Jimmy Feigen(48.65)
- Anthony Ervin (48.71)
- William Copeland (48.75)
- Blake Pieroni (49.07)
- Conor Dwyer (49.18)
For official results click here.
46.9 is the Target time for Gold in Rio……McEvoy is a special to go very low 47’s or even lower. So still some work to do
We said that going into 2012 too. We’ll see how everything goes in Rio, something surprising can always happen
No way a 46,9 is target for gold..
Even the Mcevoy and Mag 47 flat are tough to do.. for that to happen 3 situations had to happen at the same time (And won´t happen at an OG)
You have to dive fast to have no waves when surfacing, go out fast but not much to die, get first to the wall to not have any waves.
Why that is tough to happen at an OG… Mcevoy will have guys with better start on his side, which will hinder the beginning of his swim, there are guys like Morozov who will get to the wall first which will create waves and Mcevoy would need to fight these 2 problems before… Read more »
No way a 46,9 is target for gold..
Even the Mcevoy and Mag 47 flat are tough to do.. for that to happen 3 situations had to happen at the same time (And won´t happen at an OG)
You have to dive fast to have no waves when surfacing, go out fast but not much to die, get first to the wall to not have any waves.
Why that is tough to happen at an OG… Mcevoy will have guys with better start on his side, which will hinder the beginning of his swim, there are guys like Morozov who will get to the wall first which will create waves and Mcevoy would need to fight these 2 problems before… Read more »
Looks like Nathan finally let Cush give him a proper fade. Some things are more important than going :47
Congratulations to Nathan. Where is the video of these semis? Once again, NBC deciding what’s best for us to see or not. Disgusting IMHO.
Disgusting? While I’d love to see every race along with all underwater cameras, NBC has done a good job of presenting Swimming in a good way, while providing Online access for us more-than-causal-fans. Kudos IMHO
If even a casual viewer online with streaming cannot get critical races, I’d say that is not particularly a great job, IMHO. Yes, still disgusting for once every four years.
We can watch every race at d3 national championships and most conference meets every year, but Olympic trials? Way to much to ask. Unable to stream as well. Let’s hope it doesn’t cut out again lime yesterday morning. Truly disgusting.