2024 Longhorn Elite Invitation
- May 15-18, 2024
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas
- Long course meter (50 meters), qualifying/final
- meet site
- live results
Stars from across the state of Texas were in full force for the first two days of the Longhorn Elite Invitational in Austin. The meet did not include new Longhorns swimming director Bob Bowman's training group, but the old guard from the University of Texas, SMU, the state's top high school swimmers, Rex MaurerAthletes who swam at Stanford last season but are training in Austin for trials were also in attendance.
The headline swim of the day did not take place during the qualifying/final session, but during the time trial session on Thursday afternoon.Hey there, Texas pros. carson foster He recorded a time of 4 minutes 10.79 seconds in the 400 IM time trial.
This is about two seconds faster than his record at the Offbeat World Championships in February, and is his best time for the 2023-2024 season. This year's world ranking is 9th.
| 2 | Max litchfield |
GBR | 4:09.14 | 04/04 |
| 3 | alberto Lazetti |
it is | 4:09.29 | 11/30 |
| Four | Ilya Borodin |
Russia | 4:09.59 | 04/18 |
| Five | Tomoru Honda |
Japan | 4:09.98 | 11/30 |
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Foster placed second in the 400 IM at both the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, finishing second to the French world record holder on both occasions. Leon Marchand. At the most recent full world championship in 2023, Marchand was four seconds ahead of Foster.
Race video:
At the time of publishing this article, race splits were not available.
In the regular race that day, there were many winners who were close to the monthly best time at the U.S. Olympic Trials.new student in texas Erin Gemmell He won the 100 free at Texas A&M with a time of 54.36 (best: 54.13). chloe stepanek I was 2nd place with 55.12.
Gillian CoxThe Austin native, who redshirted her freshman season at the University of Texas, became the tournament's first double-winner. She won the 1,500 meters on Wednesday in a time of 16 minutes, 20.83 seconds, just 2.4 seconds off her best time. She then won the 400m free in a time of 4:08.95. She swam one 1,650-yard free race this season, beating her best time by five seconds. She will enter the women's 1500 free at the U.S. Olympic Trials as an upset choice, but with Katie Ledecky and Katie Grimes currently well separated from the field, she will compete for a spot on the other international teams at the trials in Indy. Looks like it's going to happen.
Erica Sullivan, the defending Olympic silver medalist in the 1500-meter free, was second on Wednesday in 16:26.45. She hit the 400 on Thursday.
Talented Longhorn Pros Shayne Casas He continued his recent good performance in the qualifying session, touching in 50.24 seconds and taking victory in the final in 49.00 seconds. At the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, it took him 49.07 seconds to reach the semifinals.American, Canadian, and Italian-American sprinters Santo Condorelli He reached 2nd place in 49.22 seconds. That's about a three-tenths difference from when he was at both the March and April stops of the Pro Swim Series.
Other Day 1 winners and highlights:
- Rex MaurerHe took a quarter off academically from Stanford University and entered the NCAA transfer portal, winning the 400 free on Thursday in 3 minutes, 50.25 seconds. This was his best time of the season, about 2.5 seconds off his best time from last August.
- After being officially named to the German Olympic team this week. Anna Ellent Austin won the 100 breast in 1:06.82.She bested her training partner and previous Olympic gold medalist, among others Lydia Jacoby, touched second place with a time of 1:07.69. For Elendt, this was 0.01 seconds shy of his season-best swim in San Antonio in April. Now that Olympic qualifying is complete, she is on a very different timeline than most swimmers participating in the event.
- Current American breaststroke swimmer Nick Fink (1:00.35) and Texas Pro jake foster (1:00.88) placed first and second in the men's 100-meter breaststroke.
- Deep Texas women's butterfly group, including Pan American Games champions, was on display Thursday night dakota luthor, won in 2:07.81 (two seconds better than her record at the Pan American Games). Although it's not her best time, it's close to the 2:07.86 time she placed third at last summer's World Championship Trials.
- Texas sophomore ryan branon He won the 200 fly with a time of 2:01.43 over 16-year-old Minnesota Aquajet. nathan carr (2:02.43).
- sasha rubavsky He won the men's 1500 free in 15 minutes, 35.96 seconds. This is the Texas college student and Russian native's best time in the event since 2020.
