Ruslan Gaziev Drops 50 Freestyles at Canadian Trials After Not Showing 100 Butterflies

2023 CANADA SWIMMING TRIALS

Third Day Preliminary Warmth Tables

Two high swimmers exited the 50 freestyle as they enter day three of racing on the 2023 Canadian Swimming Trials. rebecca smithtook second place within the ladies’s 50 freestyle competitors and Ruslan GazievRating Eighth in males, he did the identical.

rebecca smith In February 2022, he entered the 50 freestyle swimming in Edmonton with a time of 25.70. That is the quickest since 2021, however the very best in a lifetime, at 25.46 in comparison with 2016 seven years in the past. The 50 freestyle was Smith’s solely occasion on day three of the match, so he’ll now take a time off from the race.

Smith completed 4th in 100 butterflies on the second evening and missed the rostrum with 58.98 and FINA A with a lower of 58.33. Smith could also be taking depart to organize for Friday’s 100 freestyle races, the place he completed second behind Maggie MacNeil.

Smith helped Canada podiums in six relays on the 2017, 2019 and 2022 World Championships, and likewise swam within the 4×100 freestyle relay, which received a silver medal at Tokyo 2020.

Within the males’s 50 freestyle, Ruslan Gaziev is Eighth with a time of twenty-two.97, however shouldn’t be within the qualifying checklist for the third day. That is the second occasion Gaziev has dropped within the match for failing to qualify for 100 butterflies on the second day. Gaziev is second-seeded in 100 freestyles after which first-seeded in 200 freestyles. He didn’t specify whether or not he would take part in these races or whether or not he scraped the complete match.

Gaziez competed within the males’s 4×100 freestyle for Canada on the 2022 World Championships and competed within the males’s 4×100 medley and 4×200 freestyle, and the combined 4×100 freestyle preliminaries, profitable silver medals within the finals.

One other noteworthy scratch is Nina Kucheran The tenth total 200 IM leaver with a 2:16.44 entry time. Kucheran’s scrape is fairly self-explanatory as he appears to prioritize the 100 breaststrokes he is Eighth-seeded. Kucheran fell by greater than two seconds from a 2:28.93 entry time in 200 breaststrokes and jumped from seventh to 4th place with 2:26.90 within the last.

One last scratch to report for the third day qualifiers is the ultimate World Championship qualifiers. Eric Brown not competing with 200 IMs. Brown was single-elimination within the males’s 800 freestyle on the second evening, and can skip the 200 IMs in a tenth place with 2:05.68. Brown continues to be coming into 400 IMs, 200 freestyles and 1500 freestyles later within the meet.