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The second night of finals at the 2010 Mel Zajac jnr
International was even more exciting than the first as more WDSC
records fell in fast finals racing.
Getting up right away was Noemie Thomas who swam to 4th place in
the 'A' final of the women's 100m butterfly with a scorching fast
1:01.72, just 9-hundreths off her own BC record. Noemie was in a
tight race for 2nd and 3rd, while Dana Vollmer the US national
record holder took the victory in a new meet record of 58.89.
The 50m backstroke saw both Meghan Kwiatkowski and Mckenzie
Summers go significantly faster than their prelims performances
with Mckenzie reclaiming the club record at 32.00.
In the men's 200m IM Luke Reilly dropped big time from both his
prelim performance and the club record. His time of 2:13.78 took 9
seconds off the existing club record... Luke's swim is the fastest
in Canada for his age-group, putting him ahead by a comfortable
margin of 4 seconds from his nearest competitor. Meanwhile, in the
'A' final, Evan Broderick put pressure on the podium in a tight
race for third, he finished in 5th position, just one second away
from the 2nd place podium step, with a massive 3 second PB.
Meghan Kwiatkowski dropped a few hundredths in her 50m freestyle
from her prelims performance.
In the most exciting event of the night for our team, the 200m
breaststroke, Maya Hiebert took her race out strong, holding on for
a solid 2:46.55 in only her second meet ever swimming the event
long course. Micaela Kwiatkowski downed former national champion
Chelsea Salli with a well pace 2:39.23 - probably her best swim
ever, and slightly off her 2:38 from Pan Pac Trials. In the men's
'B' final Ryan Anderson and Evan Broderick had an epic dual going
head to head before Evan pipped Ryan at the line, the splits
compared;
Evan Broderick: 33.83 1:11.00 (37.17) 1:48.94 (37.94) 2:26.85
(37.91)
Ryan Anderson: 32.96 1:10.08 (37.12) 1:48.17 (38.09) 2:26.90
(38.73)
Ryan broke both the 50m and 100m club records before conceding the
200m record to Evan at the end of the race. Ryan's time ranks him
first in Canada heading into the Age-Group Nationals this summer,
and puts him just .1 outside of his senior national cut.
Competition continues tomorrow with the prelims sessions from 9am
- 1pm, and the finals getting underway at 5:30pm. Finals will be
webcast live on swimming canada's site.
Admission to the event is also free.
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