2024 Speedo Summer Championships: Top Qualifier Gabrielle Rose Drops 100 Breast Final on Day 1
07/23/2024 06:29 PM
By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam
2024 Speedo Summer Championships
- Tuesday, July 23 – Saturday, July 27,2024
- Prelims 9AM, finals 5PM (Pacific Time)
- LCM (50 meters)
- Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, California
- Meet Central
- Pre–scratch Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream
After posting the top time in the 100 breast this morning, Alpha Aquatics' Gabrielle Rose has scratched the final. The 46-year-old went 32.0/36.6 in heats to lead the field by .51, only .34 off her entry time. That will move the #9 qualifier, Mary Elizabeth Cespedes (1:10.66) of Valparaiso Swim Club into the A Final and #17 Bianca Nwaizu (1:11.23), from the home team Irvine Novaquatics, into lane 8 of the B Final. Nwaizu and A-finalist Grace Koenig-Song of NASA Wildcats (7th, 1:10.16) are both 14 years old.
Scarlet Aquatics' KateHurst, who posted the 16th time (2:19.00) in heats of the 200 fly, dropped out of the B Final. She will be replaced by Santa Clara Swim Club's Davina Huang, who qualified 17th (2:19.03). Hurst's teammate Kathleen Turano also scratched the 200 fly final after adding 4.5 seconds to finish 26th (2:22.28) this morning. Both Hurst and Turano are in the fastest heat of women’s 800 free in tonight’s final.
In the men's meet, there were no scratches among the top-16 qualifiers in either the 200 fly or the 100 breast.
A and B Final Scratches
Women's 200 Fly
- #16 Kate Hurst, Scarlet Aquatics (2:19.00)
Men's 200 Fly
- none
Women's 100 Breast
- #1 Gabrielle Rose, Alpha Aquatics (1:08.66)
Men's 100 Breast
- none
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