Summer McIntosh Swims Eighth-Fastest Time Ever in 400 IM at Longhorn Elite Invite; Regan Smith Breaks 56 in 100 Fly

Summer McIntosh Swims Eighth-Fastest Time Ever in 400 IM at Longhorn Elite Invite; Regan Smith Breaks 56 in 100 Fly

No single swimmer has dominated an occasion lately like Summer McIntosh has within the ladies’s 400 particular person medley. McIntosh is the Olympic champion and three-time world champion within the occasion, with a world file of 4:23.65 sitting nearly three seconds forward of some other swimmer in historical past. In a Friday night race at her coaching base in Austin, Texas, McIntosh fired off a stellar 400 IM efficiency faster than some other lively swimmer has ever recorded.

At the Longhorn Elite Invite, McIntosh swam a time of 4:27.31, which ranks because the eighth-quickest effort ever recorded. McIntosh has six of the seven faster instances, with Katinka Hosszu the one different swimmer to realize a quicker time. The next-best lively swimmer is Kaylee McKeown, who owns a finest time of 4:28.22. In a noncompetitive midseason meet, the place nobody else swam beneath 5:00, McIntosh swam an unbelievable six seconds quicker than the silver-medal-winning time from final yr’s World Championships.

The different high efficiency Friday got here from Regan Smith, one other member of Bob Bowman’s professional group based mostly on the University of Texas. Smith received the ladies’s 100 butterfly in 55.94. That made her the second swimmer to swim sub-56 this season, with solely world-record holder Gretchen Walsh quicker. Smith surpassed her earlier season-best of 56.18 and was near her finest time of 55.62, which ranks No. 5 all-time. Smith has by no means raced the occasion at a world competitors, however this time is faster than the bronze-medal mark from final yr’s World Championships.

On the lads’s facet, medley dynamo Leon Marchand cruised to the highest time in his signature occasion. Marchand received the 400 IM in 4:12.13, greater than three seconds forward of the sphere. Rex Maurer, who set an American file within the 400-yard IM on the NCAA Championships in March, took second in 4:15.58, with fellow Longhorn Cooper Lucas third (4:17.29).

Shaine Casas received a good duel with coaching associate Hubert Kos within the males’s 100 fly, touching in 50.98 to Kos’ 51.31. The 100 fly is a comparatively new occasion for Kos, the world’s dominant 200 backstroker who additionally received World Championships bronze within the 200 IM final yr, however he practically swam the quickest time ever within the 100-yard fly on the NCAA Championships, falling by solely 5 hundredths to Josh Liendo.

Anna Elendt, final yr’s shock world champion within the ladies’s 100 breaststroke, dominated her signature occasion in 1:07.30, nicely forward of the 1:10.21 of Piper Enge. The males’s equal occasion went to Campbell McKean in 1:00.37, convincingly forward of coaching companions Jack Kelly (1:01.00) and Nate Germonprez (1:01.31).

Erin Gemmell put up a powerful efficiency within the ladies’s 200 freestyle, taking the win in 1:56.34. Gemmell’s time is the third-best amongst American ladies this yr behind Anna Moesch and Anna Peplowski. Veteran Simone Manuel got here in second in 1:56.79, with Nikolett Padar third in 1:58.41.

The males’s 200 free noticed a number of of the important thing contenders for the U.S. 800 free relay going through off. Carson Foster claimed the win over Chris Guiliano by three hundredths, 1:47.34 to 1:47.37. Luke Hobson, the highest swimmer within the nation the previous three years and final yr’s World Championships silver medalist, took third in 1:48.90.

Wins within the 50 backstroke went to Emma Kern (29.05) and Joe Hayburn (25.04).