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Phelps wins, Peirsol upset in US nationals
By Beth Harris
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 06 - 08 - 2010

Michael Phelps won the 200-meter freestyle at the US National Swimming Championships, then returned less than an hour later to win the 200m butterfly Wednesday night.
Phelps led all the way in the 200m free and touched in 1 minute, 45.61 seconds – the fastest in the world this year – to earn a spot on the US team for the Pan Pacific championships later this month.
“Still slower than I want to be,” the 14-time Olympic champion said. “I wanted to step on it in the first 100, then hopefully hold them off coming home.”
Ryan Lochte finished second in 1:47.78, the second-quickest time in the world. It was a two-man race to the finish between the Olympic teammates.
Peter Vanderkaay, the Olympic bronze medalist, was third in 1:46.84.
Phelps was last off the blocks in the 200 fly, but he led all the way again and easily won despite what he called “probably the worst 200m fly I've swum in my life in terms of strokes and turns.”
He touched in 1:56.00 – 4.49 seconds slower than his world-record time at last year's world championships in Rome.
“I didn't feel good at all,” he said. “It's a lot of small things. It's going to come back to being in shape.”
Mark Dylla finished well back in second place at 1:57.08, and Tyler Clary was third.
Phelps hasn't lost the 200m fly since 2002, and it's special to him.
“This is the first race I made the international scene in,” he said. “I wanted to make sure I secured a win. That's my race.”
It was a record 49th US national swimming title for him. He moved past the 48 titles won by Tracy Caulkins.
Phelps will contest three more events at the nationals, which are being used as selection trials.
World record holder Aaron Peirsol was upset in the 100m backstroke, narrowly losing to 24-year-old David Plummer, who won the first national title of his career.
“It makes me think I can be the best in the world one day, and that's every swimmer's dream,” he said. “You can do it from anywhere. You don't have to train next to the best in the world to be the best in the world.”
Peirsol still earned a spot on the Pan Pacs team. He had won the event at every nationals he had competed in since 2000. He lost the same event to Thoman at the Charlotte UltraSwim in May. “I was happy for Dave. He's been swimming a long time,” Peirsol said. “Races like that can go either way.”
Natalie Coughlin won the 100m backstroke in her first major competition since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She finished in 1:00.14, fending off a trio of teenagers. Melissa Franklin, 15, was second in 1:00.39. Rachel Bootsma and Olympian Elizabeth Pelton, both 16, were third and fourth.
Coughlin has won the event in every nationals she's competed in since 2001.
Olympian Allison Schmitt edged Dana Vollmer by less than a tenth of a second in the 200 freestyle. Schmitt reached the wall in 1:56.84, with Vollmer right behind in 1:56.93. Katie Hoff was third in 1:57.50.
Ferretti wins 5K swim
Luca Ferretti of Italy won the 5-kilometer open water race Thursday at the European Swimming Championships at Balatonfured in Hungary.
Ferretti won in 58 minutes, 43.4 seconds, 17.1 seconds ahead of Italian teammate Simone Ercoli. Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece and Simone Ruffini of Italy tied for third.
Defending champion Thomas Lurz of Germany, who won the 10K race Wednesday, was fifth.
The event was held on the north coast's Lake Balaton, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Budapest. The women's 10K race was scheduled to start at 1400 GMT.
Pool events at the 30th edition of the championships in Budapest begin Monday.


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