2022 U.S. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS
- April 26-30, 2022
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Reported by Anne Lepesant.
MEN’S 200 METER BACKSTROKE – FINALS
- World Record: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
- American Record: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
- US Open Record: 1:53.08 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
- Jr World Record: 1:55.14 – Kliment Kolesnikov (2017)
- FINA “A” Cut: 1:58.07
- SwimSwam Preview – M200 Back
Podium:
- Ryan Murphy, Cal – 1:55.01
- Shaine Casas, Unattached – 1:55.46
- Jack Aikins, Virginia – 1:56.29
- Hunter Tapp, NC State – 1:56.79
- Destin Lasco, Unattached – 1:57.31
- Keaton Jones, Neptune – 1:57.97
- Josh Zuchowski, FAST – 1:58.44
- Sam Stewart, Unattached – 1:58.80
Shaine Casas, whose 1:55.57 in prelims this morning was the fastest performance in the world so far this year, got off to a quick start from lane 4. He flipped at 26.8 and 56.0 to lead 2016 Olympic champion Ryan Murphy by two-tenths at the halfway mark. Just behind the leaders was UVA’s Jack Aikins.
Murphy surged on the third 50, outsplitting Casas by half a second to lead 1:25.3 to 1:25.7 on the final wall. Murphy held the lead, through to the finish, winning with 1:55.01 to take over the top time in the world. Casas improved on his prelims time, and now ranks second with 1:55.46.
Shaine’s obviously been reading SwimSwam comments 🙂
Swimming 1 event and representing the USA at the WC is fantastic. He should focus on the little things like starts, turns, finishes, and keeping his head still. He seems to have a side to side rocking motion similar to Chase but not as bad. It is hard to speed the stroke tempo up when one is rocking also side to side. 24.00 in 50 back is super.
Curious what his 100fly is capable of. His 50 back was pretty damn fast but his 100 was a miss. He didn’t really resolve anything with this performance he is still mostly just a whole lot of potential and his events are really competitive. Could be he goes the next few years bouncing around the USA rankings in the top 5 in 5-6 events.
“Even Eddie might have forgotten that”! Sorry, but I found the entire interview to be defensive and filled with ‘not my fault’ statements. Casas is a great athlete and swimmer, but IMHO, this interview earned him no friends and no brownie points.
I don’t think Shaine is going to lose sleep over not earning your friendship or brownie points Mike
I can assure you “bobfromLordkknowswhere” that brownie points from me DON’T count, but from YOUR COACH!????? That’s in the “not good” column — and, yes, I swam at the collegiate level.
You did not swim at the collegiate level…
NAIA
Could be, but I kinda see it as him wanting to take some pressure off. It’s true, he’s been there for a few months and it must not be easy to have everyone in the swimming world looking at you to be one of the next great swimmers for the U.S.
. . . . point taken and well made. However, he’s a ‘professional’ now, so the standard is much higher, right?
Totally disagree. I think he’s trying to stay positive and control what he can. He’s just getting into his groove with Eddie and figuring out which events are best for him. Sounded humble and dedicated to me.
OK — I respect that — but to me, it sounded, well, very off-putting.
Let’s not be hypercritical of the college age people, Mike. I bet you are considerably older with more life lessons behind you. Or maybe back in the day, you solicited criticism from old strangers.
Isn’t it funny that on a good day he could have qualified for 7 individual events but in the end he only qualified second in one event that he probably should have been DQ’d for. Swimming’s funny like that
50/100/200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM. What are the other 2?
The 10k and 50 free
75 with fins is one
50 fly and 100 free relay maybe?
And that event has a weak field. If Mefford hadn’t decided to retire so early, Shaine wouldn’t have made it.