After dipping under Katharina Fischer’s individual medley record this morning touching the wall at 1:58.91 Patrica Castro Ortega lowered her record by another 3-tenths this evening winning the 200 IM at 1:58.60. She was joined on the podium by teammate Caroline Arakelian (2:00.35) who touched second. Wingate sophomore Sofia Petrenko (2:00.37) would come up just short of the silver taking third.
Comparative splits:
- Fischer, 2014 – 26.45/30.06/33.89/28.81 = 1:59.21
- Castro, 2015 – 25.77/30.33/35.00/27.81 = 1:58.91
- Castro, 2015 – 25.81/30.43/34.93/27.43 =1:58.60
Castro seemed a bit more relaxed tonight through the first 100 of the race touching a little over a tenth slower than she was this morning, allowing her to to come home roughly half a second faster her second 100 of the IM. The swim should give the 2012 Olympian a lot of confidence moving forward especially with arguably her best race, the 200 freestyle, slated for tomorrow.
