Top 5 Biggest Time Drops From Seed On Day 3 Of U.S. Nationals

2017 U.S. NATIONALS/WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TRIALS

Once again, a big thanks to Barry Revzin for compiling all this data on the fly and coming up with another batch of cool visualizations on today’s swims!

Today, three of the five biggest drops came from highly-seeded athletes. In fact, Leah Smith‘s explosive 400 IM was the biggest drop of the day for any swimmer, and she started with the 8th seed. Smith wound up winning the national title and escaping the DQ onslaught.

Mallory Comerford and Caeleb Dressel each had huge drops out of the 100 butterfly races as well.

TOP 5 TIME DROPS FROM DAY 3

Overall:

  1. 3.2% Leah Smith‘s absurd 400 IM, 4:42.94 to 4:33.86
  2. 2.9% Jamie Stone (W 100 Fly) 1:02.22 to 1:00.39
  3. 2.6% Mallory Comerford (W 100 Fly) 59.51 to 57.97
  4. 2.6% Caeleb Dressel (M 100 Fly) 52.22 to 50.87
  5. 2.4% Aaron Schultz (M 100 Fly) 54.61 to 53.30

Among Top 16 Seeds:

  1. 3.2% Leah Smith‘s absurd 400 IM, 4:42.94 to 4:33.86
  2. 2.6% Mallory Comerford (W 100 Fly) 59.51 to 57.97
  3. 2.6% Caeleb Dressel (M 100 Fly) 52.22 to 50.87
  4. 1.8% Maxime Rooney (M 100 Fly) 53.25 to 52.28
  5. 1.7% Ally McHugh (W 400 IM) 4:45.04 to 4:40.25

VISUALS

Bonus: Women’s 100 Fly

Kelsi Worrell‘s 50 fly last night proved her head-and-shoulders ahead of the rest of the American butterfly field – literally. But she’ll run up against Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom at Worlds, and Sjostrom has found herself that far ahead of the world in recent years.

Here’s a quick bonus visualization of the finish field in Wednesday night’s 50 fly final, compared to where Sjostrom’s best time would place her:

Nationals Final:

With Sjostrom:

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bobo gigi
7 years ago

Great article once again. The visualization is amazing.
Comerford is on fire everywhere. Dressel is on fire on fly.
And about Leah Smith in the 400 IM I have the honesty to say that I have never thought a single second to her for that event. I believe I didn’t even know she swam IM! 🙂 Maybe it will give some ideas to KL. I would like to see her one time in her career swim the 400 IM at a big meet fully tapered. Maybe 2020 against Hosszu in Tokyo? It’s on day 1 at olympic games. She would be fresh. Imagine the schedule! 400 IM/200 free/400 free/800 free/1500 free/4X100 free relay/4X200 free relay! No, no, I… Read more »

Dee
7 years ago

These are great articles: Visuals say so much more than words. The Sjostrom image is jaw-dropping. She is just so far ahead of the rest.

ADSF
7 years ago

Love the visualization tool! That is great. I think SwimSwam really did a good job with this tool. Keep it coming for this analysis for other races. Thanks

Zanna
7 years ago

The Gators are turning out to be better flyers than freestylers (Dressel and Rooney).

bobo gigi
Reply to  Zanna
7 years ago

You would have told me that about Dressel last year I think I would have laughed.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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