SANTA CLARA, California, May 16. THE second night of swimming at the Santa Clara International Invitational began with a bang as Natalie Coughlin clipped her American record in the women's 100 free.
Unfortunately for Coughlin, Australian Cate Campbell had her number as she tied what had stood as the world record with a time of 53.30 to win the event. Britta Steffen's time of 53.30 had been the global standard before Libby Trickett dropped the record to a 52.88 in March.
Campbell went out in 25.92, while coming back in 27.38.
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Meanwhile, Coughlin placed second with a 53.39 to nip her previous American standard of 53.40 set in March 2007 at the World Championships.
Coughlin took out the swim in 25.71, while taking it back in 27.68.
With Trickett atop the mountain with a 52.88 and Steffen second with a 53.20 from April, Campbell is now the third fastest of all time with Coughlin now fourth in 53.39.
Brendan Hansen nearly cleared a minute again as is becoming standard for the world record when he won the men's 100 breast in 1:00.01 to destroy his meet record of 1:01.29 set last year.
Damir Dugonjic finished second in the race with a time of 1:01.67, while Japan's Ryo Tateishi snared third in 1:01.68.
Japan's Izumi Kato followed in the women's 200 breast as she knocked off Amanda Beard, 2:27.69 to 2:28.15. Jessica Schmitt finished third in 2:28.41, while top breaststrokers Megan Jendrick (2:31.70) and Tara Kirk (2:32.67) finished a surprising seventh and eighth.
Kirk is sporting a new look and wardrobe after a stint on What Not To Wear. For Kirk's www.WCSN.com blog about the experience, click here.
Peter Vanderkaay notched the second-fastest time of the year with a meet-record time of 1:46.24 in the men's 200 free. He broke Michael Phelps' 1:47.58 record from 2005, and stands behind only Phelps' 1:45.71 from the Missouri Grand Prix as the top swimmer in the world this year.
Dominik Meichtry finished second in 1:47.89, while Michael Klueh placed third in 1:48.06.
The Aussies got the best of a hard-training Kate Ziegler in the women's 400 free. Bronte Barratt nearly clipped Ziegler's U.S. Open record of 4:04.24 set last year, but settled with a victory in 4:04.57.
Kylie Palmer placed second in the strong final field with a time of 4:05.98, while Ziegler settled for third in 4:07.11.
Showing some signs of heavy training, Michael Phelps still clocked a strong time of 4:13.47 to win the men's 400 IM. The time finished short of his meet record time of 4:11.40 set back in 2006.
Robert Margalis put together a swift time for second with a 4:15.05, while Tyler Clary earned third in 4:22.12.
Dana Vollmer picked up the victory in the women's 100 fly when she hit the wall in 58.52. Mary DeScenza captured second in 59.21, while Elaine Breeden finished third in 59.66.
In a rare occurrence, Phelps saw one of his records fall as Club Wolverine teammate Davis Tarwater pipped Phelps' meet record in the men's 200 fly with a time of 1:55.93. Phelps previously set the record with a 1:56.05 last year.
Ian Gherghel took second in 1:58.25, while Gil Stovall claimed third in 1:58.71.
In 400 freestyle relay action, the Aussie women nabbed the meet record with a time of 3:42.08. Campbell, Ellen Fullerton, Barratt and Amelia Evatt-Davey beat out the time of 3:43.50 set last year by California Aquatics. Campbell leadoff in 54.44.
Athens Bulldogs DeScenza, Jessi Cole, Andrea Georoff and Kara Lynn Joyce finished second in 3:44.21, while Japan's Maki Mita, Haruka Ueda, Emi Takanabe and Misaki Yamaguchi placed third in 3:44.45.
For the men, the South African quartet of Lyndon Ferns, Roland Schoeman, Gideon Louw and Ryk Neethling came within a second-and-a-half of the U.S. Open standard with a meet-record time of 3:15.58. The performance demolished the 3:20.91 set by Australia as the meet standard back in 2006.
Australia's Leith Brodie, Matthew Abood, Mitchell Patterson and Tom Miller finished second in 3:21.80, while Great Britain's squad of Adam Brown, Matthew Clay, Ian Hulme and Benjamin Hockin took third in 3:24.01.
Results: Santa Clara International
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May 16, 2008 Where are the relay results? It would be interesting to see RSA's time, Campbell. Barratt, and Joyce's splits. Submitted by: SwimDER94
May 16, 2008 They aren't done yet. Will get them up as soon as they are done. Submitted by: Jason Marsteller
May 16, 2008 Who do we think will make the US team in the 4x100m relay? Possiblities (6 of 9): Coughlin, Silver, Torres, Hoff, Joyce, Hardy, Vandenberg, Nymeyer, and Vollmer (all have been under 55 this year-either tonight or on SwimNews). More importantly, who will medal in the 100 Free? Submitted by: SwimDER94
May 16, 2008 Campbell lead off at :54.44; other results not up yet but Aussie group broke the meet record by about a 1/2 second at 3:43.0; Submitted by: dunc1952
May 16, 2008 that time from south africa shows that they are back in contention with the rest of the world. They will probably be even faster with darian townsend on the relay, either way they are lookin good Submitted by: WUswimmer
May 16, 2008 I hope nobody REALLY believes "12 year old" Cate Campbell swam a U.S. Open record 53.30 100 free tonite @ Santa Clara, beating the "grtatest history in the swimmer of the worlde" in the process.
That's about as likely as the Lakers defeating Utah @ Salt Lake City ss a prelude to thre NBA title.
Impossible!
I clearly saw what Campbell did.
She dove in, swam underneath everybody to the side of the deck, hopped out, ran to the end of the pool, dove back in and touched first, just like that guy in that video you posted recently.
Same thing in spades.
Campbell's way too young and inexpeienced to go to the Olympics.
She should compete at this year's World Yoiuth Championships in a couple of months and get some seasning.
NOBODY as young as she is should be allowed to swim in the Olympics, unless they're American of course!
Besides: isn't the minimum age limit 21(again except for Uncle Sam's troops).
Yes, Aussie hed coach Alan Thompson has to realize it would be a great hardship on the ENTIRE world if Campbell's allowed to compete @ Beijing.
And that applies doubly for Libby Trickett, Jessicah Schipper and Stephanie Rice, not to mention Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan too.
Save Campbell for London (Rome next year?)
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Nice swim (pr) by Davis Tarwater in the 200 fly. He's now third American under 1:56.0. Most ever. He could push Phelps to a wr @ the Trials.
And a pr/NR 1:01.67 for Croatia's (and Cal freshman) Damir D. in the 100 breast. He's another swimmer who's made significant improvement this year.
Stanford's Paul Kornfeld, NCAA 100-200 breast champ, missed making Canada's Olympic team at their Trials last month.
However, because he has dual citizenship (U.S too)look for him to swim @ Omaha next month. Will an additional three months of training make him an Olympian? Stay tuned. Submitted by: slickwillie32
May 17, 2008 Townsend wasn't on the relay in Melbourne, so I think Louw or Zandberg are probably better bets. I still think it will be USA, Australia, France in Beijing, though. Submitted by: SwimDER94
May 17, 2008 Swimder don't forget about Amanda Weir for the 4x100free spot. She went 53.5 in 2006, and a 54-mid last season. Submitted by: bt22
May 17, 2008 I thought about Weir and she definitely has a good chance, but everyone else (except Silver - the results seemed to have her 53.4 when she was 55.3) has been under 54 already this year. If experience decides who goes, she's already there. Submitted by: SwimDER94
May 17, 2008 Cate Campbell actually turned 16 this week - where on earth did it say she was 12 years old! Submitted by: swimoz
May 17, 2008 Townsend had a great comeback season at NCAA's so that looks good going into the olympic yr, but yes i think the NJCAA swimmer from indian river will get the nod, mr. louw. I think the U.S. will be able to pull it out though will a tough race with France. Submitted by: WUswimmer
May 18, 2008 Cate will turn 16 this Tuesday, May 20th. Submitted by: wek5000
May 18, 2008 As Cate's maternal grandfather, I must take the strongest exception to the allegation, besmirching all her family, that she ran down the side of the pool in order to win gold. Cate is a thoroughly honest girl – she has no thought of entering politics or the law - and would never stoop to treating what is essentially a water sport as a land - or amphibious - race. What she did was something that she has been practising for years, and that is holding her breath. When she dived into the water, she swam back underwater to the starting end and sat on the bottom of the pool until the other swimmers came back from their jaunt to the other end. At the vital moment she surfaced and touched the end. The fact that she won by such a narrow margin instead of a much larger margin indicates how honest she is.
Grandpa Submitted by: classics
May 18, 2008 Too funny! Maybe she will be on Oprah soon with her breath-holding abilities! Submitted by: Jason Marsteller
May 19, 2008 I like humor, but downplaying her (Cate Campbell) accomplishments is a little inane.
This girl is a monster talent and could be a gold medal winner this summer.
The Aussie girls are gonna to be awfully tough competition in China. Submitted by: wek5000
May 19, 2008 I am sure that slickwillie's comment, as was my own, was in no way intended to "downplay" Cate's accomplishments. Quite the reverse. Offering silly - "inane" if you like - alternative explanations are a way of emphasizing her "monster" talent by suggesting that her performances are incredible. Submitted by: classics
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