Reported by Mitch Bowmile.
MEN’S 200M BREASTSTROKE
Top seed: Kevin Cordes (2:07.86)
World record: 2:07.01 – Akhiro Yamaguchi (Japan)
American record: 2:07.42 – Eric Shanteau
U.S Open record: 2:07.86 – Kevin Cordes
U.S Nationals record: 2:07.86 – Kevin Cordes
JR World record: 2:09.84 – Anton Chupkov (Russia)
2012 Winning Time: 2:09.01 – Scott Weltz
It’s not often that you’re on world record watch during the prelims, but Kevin Cordes took the crowd for a ride down world record lane this morning.
For 150-meters, Cordes was right on pace. His 150-meter split was the exact same as the world record, but he shut things down on the way home to ultimately go a 2:08.54. That time leads the way to the semifinals ahead of Texas’ Will Licon.
Licon was a 2:09.43 this morning to be the only swimmers besides Cordes to go under 2:10. He took down Nic Finkwho dropped a 2:10.10 right beside him to take the third seed overall.
Josh Prenot is fourth in 2:10.68. Andrew Wilson is fifth in 2:11.27.
Cody Miller, who already made the Olympic team, finished well behind Cordes in their heat in order to take sixth overall with a 2:12.80.
TOP 16
- Kevin Cordes (2:08.54)
- Will Licon (2:09.43)
- Nic Fink (2:10.10)
- Josh Prenot (2:10.68)
- Andrew Wilson (2:11.27)
- Cody Miller (2:12.80)
- Reece Whitley (2:12.85)
- BJ Johnson (2:12.92)
- Brandon Fischer (2:13.72)
- Brendan McHugh (2:13.85)
- Alex Evdokimov (2:14.00)
- Ethan Browne (2:14.33)
- Sam Tierney (2:14.46)
- Jacob Montague (2:14.65)
- Nick Zito (2:14.67)
- Daniel Roy (2:14.70)
For official results click here.
I don’t see it happening with this kid. Not to say he’s not a good swimmer. He is, but he’s such a big kid now – wonder if he gets bigger and if the extra muscle he puts on doesn’t allow him to transition it into more speed in the pool. He’s slower this year than he was last year in his events. I’m sure a lot of people will attribute that to ‘he’s been doing more weight training’, but was faster a year ago. This was his biggest stage yet.
I love watching Whitley and Michael Andrews improve. They will still be young in 4 more years.
I gotta tell you, the “static” bumpers you guys put on the videos are incredibly distracting, especially the audio portion. What exactly is the message SwimSwam is trying to send with them?
I agree, I hate them. That’s one of the reasons I don’t watch most of the videos on this site.
I always get angry when I forget to turn the volume down at the beginning and it’s so loud…. The one at the end always catches me off guard. I agree. Very off-putting. I don’t watch a lot of the videos for that reason either.
No problems here, I thought they are kind of cool myself but you’ll never get 100% consensus.
I’m guessing the purpose is they are building a brand/company so wherever you see these videos (web site/social media/embedded code on other sites) you’ll immediately recognize them? Normal production stuff.