2024 Longhorn Elite Invitation
Saturday final live stream video
On Saturday, the final finals session of the 2024 Longhorn Elite Invite, part of the Club Excellence Challenge Series, concluded and preparations were made. The final session, held in Austin, Texas, included the 800 free, 100 back, 200 chest, 200 IM, and 50 free for both men and women.
After winning the 200 free on Friday in a season-best time of 1:57.51. Erin Gemmell On Saturday, he again ran the 200 free time trial, setting a season-best time of 1:57.26.Gemmell has moved up to fourth place in the U.S. this season, just 0.01 seconds behind third place. paige madden, is also in the world's top 30 times. Gemmell made up a quarter-second deficit in the second 100 meters and swam 30.23/30.33 to even out the remaining two 50 splits.
Gemmell holds a lifetime best of 1:55.90, which he set at the 2023 World Championships.
Split comparison
- Friday final: 27.21/29.61/30.61/30.08 – 1:57.51
- Saturday TT: 27.18/29.52/30.23/30.33 – 1:57.26
2023-2024 US Rankings – Women's 200 FR LCM
- Katie Ledecky, 1:54.97
- Anna Peplowski, 1:56.99
- paige madden1:57.25
- Erin Gemmell1:57.26**
- Simone Manuel, 1:57.37
- Addison Sawkey, 1:57.98
Texas Longhorn Gemmell, representing Nations Capital, also competed in the women's 50-meter free, coming in third place with a time of 25.53 seconds, three-tenths of the time of 25.29 seconds.She was a Polish athlete who won in an astonishing 24.28 seconds. Kasia Wasic.Texas 5th grader secures 2nd place touch-in grace cooper 25:10. At the San Antonio Pro Swim Series in April, Wasik ran a time of 24.20 seconds. However, she was faster at the World Championships in February 2024, where she won the bronze medal with a Polish national record of 23.95 points. For Cooper, her 25.10 matched her season-best record from the 2023 U.S. Open. Kasich remains No. 3 in the world this season, while Cooper is ranked No. 16 in the United States this season.
Women's 50 Race Free Video
Looking at the remaining results from Saturday's regular final session, Shayne Casas He outperformed a Texas freshman to win the men's 100 back with a winning time of 53.89. Will ModglinRunner-up time of 54.74 seconds. Casas fell three-tenths short of his season best of 53.54 at the Knoxville Pro Swim Series, ranking fourth in the nation this season. Modglin also set a new SB, dropping from a 55.22 score at the TCU dual meet in February to 14th in the nation this season.
Men's 100 back race video
The men's 200 meters featured a showdown between multiple world champions. Nick Fink Participated in multiple world championship teams Will Lycon. Fink beat Licon by a second in the final 50 seconds, winning from 2:11.51 to 2:11.77 for a 0.26-second lead over Licon. jake foster, 2024 World Championship finalist, placed third in 2:12.55. For Fink, this will be his fastest swim of the season outside of the 2024 world championship and the fall 2023 World Cup series. Foster did the same, setting her fastest swim of the season outside of the Pan American Games in October 2023, and her season best of 2:08.78 at the 2024 World Championships. Meanwhile, Licon was ranked seventh in the U.S. this season, falling just short of SB's time of 2:10.96 at the Westmont Pro Swim Series in March.
Men's 200 Breast Race Video
Other notable highlights of Day 4
after texas Nate Jarmon Prez TXLA trainee takes lead after breaststroke in men's 200 IM final Rex Maurer I dropped a 27.74 in freestyle trying to catch him. However, it was Germontpre who won with a time of 2:00.16, with Maurer coming in second with a time of 2:00.85. Although both swimmers missed their personal bests by a few tenths of a second, they easily beat the U.S. Olympic team qualifying time of 2:03.49. Germonpre and Maurer currently rank 13th and 14th, respectively, in the U.S. in 200 IM times this season.
Men's 50m free, Texas camden taylor He set his personal best two times out of two, first scoring 22.93 points in the preliminaries and then winning the finals with 22.91 points. Taylor's previous PR of 22.97 was set at his TCU dual meet in February. Harvard University finished in second place, with a one-tenth difference. sony one Her time was 23.01 seconds, 0.05 seconds off her personal record of 22.96 from the March 2023 sectional series. The cut required for this duo to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team is 22.79 points.A Canadian, an Italian and an American took the lead in the men's 50 free heat and qualified for the final. Santo Condorelli The Dallas Mustangs of North Texas hit the wall with a score of 22.77. At the Westmont Games, Condorelli scored 21.89 points, which was one-hundredth of his personal record of 21.83 points at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
See more Day 4 finalists
- Abby Gutrut The Texas A&M Aggie Swim Club's women's 800 free race won in 8 minutes, 51.94 seconds, seven seconds better than her season best of 8 minutes, 58.25 seconds set at the San Antonio Pro Swim Series. Gutrul's lifetime best time of 8:40.70, which earned her a place at the U.S. Olympic Trials, was set at the 2023 U.S. Nationals, ranking her 26th in the nation at season's end.
- south carolina conor fry The South Carolina native set a new personal best in the men's 800 free with a time of 8:14.70, bettering his 2023 U.S. Open personal best of 8:15.20. The shortened U.S. Olympic Trials for this event is 8:09.69.
- Texas emma kern She took back the women's 100 meters in 1:01.00, beating her training companion by 0.64 seconds. Berit Berglund (1:01.64). Both Kern and Berglund ran under the 1:01.89 time they cut at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Khan's swim was good enough to beat her personal best of 1:01.01 in San Antonio by a hundredth. It was a season best for Berglund, defeating SB from San Antonio in 1:02.00.
- Aqua Jets teammate 17 years old grace love and 27 years old olivia anderson She competed for a photo finish in the women's 200m chest race. Looking at the scoreboard, Love beat Anderson by 10 seconds, winning 2:32.39 to 2:32.83. Her U.S. Olympic trial time was 2:31.69. Although she didn't make the time cut at the trials, Love's 2:32.39 was better than her 2:32.74 in San Antonio and a new personal best. In Anderson's case, she set a season best by nearly four seconds from her 2:36.31 in San Antonio.
- The Texas athlete set a personal best in the women's 200 IM and won by more than two seconds. Angie Coe, swam 2:14.64, lowering her personal record of 2:15.18 set in Knoxville. The second place was campbell stall He was ahead of his fellow Longhorn fly expert with a 2:17.06. Emma Sticklen2:19.60. Sticklen was faster in qualifying, clocking 2:17.82, bettering his personal record of 2:17.19 from May 2023. His U.S. Olympic team qualifying record is 2:16.09.
