2024 Pro Swim Series – Knoxville: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam

2024 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE

• January 10-13, 2024
• Knoxville, Tennessee
• LCM (50 meters)
• Start Times
  • Wednesday Distance: 5pm (EST)
  • All Prelims: 9am (EST)
  • Thurs-Sat Finals: 6pm (EST)
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Thursday Prelims Heat Sheet

The live stream for this meet will be located on the USA Swimming Network, and you can catch the action here. 

The first preliminary session of the 2024 Knoxville Pro Swim Series will feature four events: the 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, and 400 freestyle.

The women’s 100 free will feature a deep field, highlighted by 2023 National Champion Kate Douglass. Torri Huske, Claire Curzan, Abbey Weitzeil, and Gretchen Walsh will be among the several other contenders. 2016 Olympic Champion Simone Manuel will also swim the event this morning, and is coming off some promising performances at the U.S. Open last month. Manuel placed 4th in the U.S. Open final in this event, where she touched in a time of 53.65.

The women’s 100 breast field will showcase the past two Olympic champions in the event: Lilly King and Lydia Jacoby. King won the event at the 2016 Rio Games while Jacoby was victorious in Tokyo, so a fun battle awaits (assuming both safely advance).

The men’s 100 breaststroke is one of the most stacked events of the meet, led by Nic Fink (58.36). The American record holder, Michael Andrew, is seeded second (58.51) with Noah Nichols (59.40), Jake Foster (59.64), Cody Miller (59.85), Mitch Mason (59.87), and Charlie Swanson (59.89) all having sub-1:00 entry times.

The 2022 & 2023 World Champion in the 200 butterfly, Summer McIntosh, will swim the event this morning. She owns a best time of 2:04.06, which she posted en route to the world title this past year in Fukuoka. She notably opted to enter the 200 fly over the 400 free, with both events being two of her best. Katie Ledecky, who was victorious last night in the 1500 free, enters the 400 as the top seed.

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 51.71 – Sarah Sjostrom (2017)
• American Record: 52.04 – Simone Manuel (2019)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 53.12 – Sarah Sjostrom (2016)
• US Open Record: 52.54 – Simone Manuel (2018)

MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 46.86 – David Popovici (2022)
• American Record: 46.96 – Caeleb Dressel (2019)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 48.00 – Nathan Adrian (2016)
• US Open Record: 47.39 – Caeleb Dressel / Ryan Held

WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King (2017)
• American Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King (2017)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 1:05.32 – Lilly King (2021)
• US Open Record: 1:04.45 – Jessica Hardy (2009)

MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty (2019)
• American Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew (2021)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 58.58 – Adam Peaty (2017)
• US Open Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew (2021)

WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS

• World Record: 2:01.81 – Zige Liu (2009)
• American Record: 2:03.87 – Regan Smith (2023)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 2:05.05 – Summer McIntosh (2023)
• US Open Record: 2:03.87 – Regan Smith (2023)

MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS

• World Record: 1:50.34 – Kristof Milak (2022)
• American Record: 1:51.51 – Michael Phelps (2009)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 1:53.84 – Luca Urlando (2019)
• US Open Record: 1:52.20 – Michael Phelps (2008)

WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 3:55.38 – Ariarne Titmus (2023)
• American Record: 3:56.46 – Katie Ledecky (2016)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 3:57.94 – Katie Ledecky (2018)
• US Open Record: 3:57.94 – Katie Ledecky (2018)

MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 3:40.07 – Paul Biedermann (2009)
• American Record: 3:42.78 – Larsen Jensen (2008)
• Pro Swim Series Record: 3:43.55 – Sun Yang (2016)
• US Open Record: 3:43.53 – Larsen Jensen (2008)

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