Matthew Grevers clinches Men’s 200m back-stroke title - ConocoPhillips National Championships
Matthew Grevers of Tucson Ford Deal presented his marvellous skills and claimed the title of Men’s 200m back-stroke on day five of the ongoing 2011 ConocoPhillips National Championships on Saturday, August 6, in Palo Alto, California.
ConocoPhillips is a long course national event, taking place at the Avery Aquatic Center of Stanford University.
Grevers won the gold medal of the four-lap swim, by submitting a phenomenal time of 1 minute and 57.26 seconds. His time was 5.34 seconds away from Aaron Peirsol’s world record of 1 minute and 51.92 seconds, made at the 2009 World Championships. He was also
4.18 seconds slower than US Open mark of 1 minute and 53.08 seconds, set by Peirsol in 2009. His time was well under the Olympic Trials qualification criteria of 2 minutes and 04.99 seconds, set by international aquatic sport’s governing body, Federation Internationale
de Natation (FINA).
The gold medallist was 0.22 seconds ahead of his following swimmer, Rexford Tullius of Daytona Beach Swimming, who ended his swim in a second fastest time of 1 minute and 57.48 seconds. Tullius was followed by Nick Thoman of SwimMAC Carolina, who stayed
nearly two seconds behind the silver medallist and reported a time of 1 minute and 59.31 seconds.
Ryan Murphy of Bolles School Sharks, who remained 0.02 seconds slower than Thoman surfaced as fourth finest swimmer of the event, with a timing of 1 minute and 59.33 seconds.
James Lendrum of Trojan Swim Club was ranked as the fifth fastest swimmer, as he ended his swim in 1 minute and 59.37 seconds. He was followed by Jacob Pebley of Corvallis Aquatic, who was 0.12 seconds slower than his preceding swimmer and touched the finishing
wall to post a time of 1 minute and 59.49 seconds.
Cory Chitwood of Tucson Ford Deal and Matthew Thompson of Stanford swimming transpired as the seventh and eighth fastest finishers of the event, with timings of 2:00.27 and 2:02.26 minutes, respectively.
Furthermore, the championships will continue for two more days to conclude all the scheduled swimming events.
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