Swimming Blogs - Chris DeSantis

Welcome back to floswimming, your #1 source for Junior Pan-Pac news! Lets throw aside the Marsteller taunting for the day and get straight to the rundown:

Womens 100 free: Dagny Knutson took first with a 55.37 for another meet record. She was followed Hannah Riordan of Australia in 56.03 and Samantha Tucker of USA in 56.08. Notably, 13 year old Lia Neal won thr consolation heat with a 56.48

Men's 100 free: This event troubles me. Does Australia just have a lot more young freestylers than we do or are we just missing a few of our best 18 and under gentlemen (Vladimir Morozov, Morgon Henderson-Kunz and the like). Anyway, Australia swept it with Tommoso D'Orsogna and Daniel Smith finishing in 49.75 and 49.99 respectively. New Zealand's Daniel Bell finished third with a 50.59 and two americans finished 7th and 8th in the final: Timothy Phillips (51.26) and Shayn Fleming (51.47).

Women's 100 Breast: In a razor sharp final where every swimmer finished at 1:09, Australia took first and third behind Samantha Marshall (1:09.08) and Tessa Wallace 1:09.41). Sandwiched between them was Japans Sayuna Sugiyama. American Laura Sogar finished just out of the medals with her 1:09.53 and Kasey Karlson was 8th with 1:09.91.

Men's 100 breast: A USA sweep on the wings of Nick D'Innocenzo (1:02.99) and Stuart Ferguson (1:03.62). Japan's Akihiro Yamaguchi finished third in 1:03.88.

Women's 400 IM: Let me guess. Oh yeah- Dagny Knutson wins it in 4:40.10 followed by Ellen Fullerton of Australia (4:41.17 )and teammat Andrea Taylor (4:43.23)

Men's 400 IM: Top seed Nick D'Innocenzo tumbled down to 5th with a 4:23.54. Taking the top two spots was Japan's Yuha Horihata 4:17.86 and Keita Sameshima 4:18.72. Andrew Gemmel took third of USA in 4:20.52.

Women's 800 Free Relay: With the anchor leg locked down, there was never any question whether Team USA would win this relay. They did so in dominant fashion, taking the event in 7:58.26 and breaking the meet record by over ten seconds. Australia followed with 8:04.89 with Canada in third (8:05.62)

Men's 800 Free Relay: The USA freestylers fell short of medaling in this meet's first relay event. Australia dominated in 7:17.79, followed by a fierce battle for second between Japan (7:25.42) and Canada (7:25.43). Team USA finished well back in 4th with a 7:30.97

Team Scores after Day 2:

Women:

1. United States of America 108 2. Australia 89 3. Japan 59 4. Canada 53 5. People's Republic of China 10 6. New Zealand 8
7. Guam 4

Men:
1. Australia 85 2. Japan 83 3. United States of America 74 4. New Zealand 41 5. Canada 34 6. Guam 6 7. Northern Mariana Islands 4 8. People's Republic of China 2
9. Mexico 1