Out of 62 possible medals, the Americans finished the 2014 Junior Pan Pac Championships in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday with 47 medals. That includes 27 golds in 34 pool events.
The Americans took 8 out of the 10 gold medals on the final day of the competition, with Japan taking the last two to wind up second overall in the medals table with 5 golds.
Among other noteworthy medals on the final day included the Canadian women picking up their first relay medal of the meet with Danielle Hanus, kelsey Wog, Jacomie Strydom, and Mary-Sophie Harvey combined for a bronze in the 400 medley relay, swimming a 4:08.57 to hold the Australians off of the podium.
Three of those four Canadian women are 16-or-younger, which is just another layer to the impressive medleys of the future that the country is building in the Great White North.
The full medal table is below:
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||
| USA | 27 | 12 | 8 | 47 |
| Japan | 5 | 8 | 8 | 21 |
| Australia | 2 | 9 | 5 | 16 |
| Canada | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Full Team Scores
Team scores are awarded to the 8 A-finalists in each race, limiting each nation to two scorers per event. The scoring system is 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with points doubled for relays.
1. USA 478.5
2. Japan 289
3. Australia 258
4. Canada 235.5
5. China 80
6. New Zealand 62
7. Mexico 44
8. Fiji 18
9. South Korea 8
Medal Winners on Day 4
W. 200 IM
1. Ella Eastin, USA, 2:13.12
2. Mary-Sophie Harvey, Canada 2:13.77
3. Kim Williams, USA, 2:14.18
M. 200 IM
1. Andrew Seliskar, USA, 2:00.81
2. Curtis Ogren, USA, 2:02.21
3. Juran Mizohata, Japan, 2:02.31
W. 50 free
1. Amy Bilquist, USA, 25.04
2. Menghui Zhu, China, 25.12
3. Lucy McJannet, Australia, 25.38
M. 50 free
1. Paul Powers, USA, 22.20 (Meet Record)
2. Blake Jones, Australia, 22.67
3. Cameron Kidd, Canada, 22.69
W. 200 breast
1. Runa Imai, Japan, 2:26.04 (2000 born)
2. Manami Chida, Japan, 2:28.47
3. Emily Kopas, USA, 2:28.83
M. 200 breast
1. Ryuya Mura, Japan, 2:13.55
2. Rintaro Okubo, Japan, 2:13.75
3. Matt Wilson, Australia, 2:14.71
W. 1500 free
1. Sierra Schmidt, USA, 16:26.81
2. Moesha Johhnson, Australia, 16:31.96
3. Isabella Rongione, USA, 16:33.60
M. 800 free
1. Townley Haas, USA, 8:00.99
2. Liam Egan, USA, 8:04.06
3. Peter Brothers, Canada, 8:04.45
W. 400 medley relay
1. USA, 4:04.44 (Meet Record)
2. Japan, 4:04.11
3. Canada, 4:08.57
M. 400 medley relay
1. USA, 3:39.09
2. Japan, 3:42.78
3. Canada, 3:43.12
The medal count should wait until the end of the open water event. USA with a gold and bronze, Australia with a silver and bronze, Japan with a gold, and Canada with a silver.
Open water is scored separately from the pool events according to meet information.
To win the 800 free us would have to take runge and use her on both relays. Bilqist too and then decide to take a flyer and breaststroker or 2 freestylers. That would probably make it tough for us to swim both. So us could have 5 more golds to a total of 8 but they would not take any gold from china which would still win yog
27 to 5 for gold medals and 47 to 21 for total medals from the nearest competitor. Even if you take the 4 best male and 4 best female swimmers, the USA will still be dominant. You could send these swimmers to the Youth Olympic Games, which will provide them with amazing prep for the real Olympics, and win that meet as well.
The only reason not to do this imo is the team atmosphere. A bigger team (at jr pan pacs) will have a better atmosphere, but jr pan pacs is just a meet, YOG is an event!
Actually.. Except for 200 fly, 200 free on the men side and maybe Haas times,, the meet itself would not chage much.. the Girls WJR would win gold.. but most would not win individually.. even if they sent the 4 best girls and boys.. the meet would still be won by China…
The following event the winner of Pan Pacs Jr was faster than the winner of YOG.
Boys side:
200 free
100 fly
200 fly
Men free relay was faster, but on Pan Pacs jr they used 2 swimmers born on 1995, which would not be allowed at YOG
Men 200 IM
There was not Men 400IM and 1500 free at YOG
Girls side:
Women 400 free (But US won this event at YOG already)
Women 800 free
100 back (US won this event at YOG too)
Women 200 breast (Not US gold, would go to JPN Imai)
And both girls relays..
But also.. some events (100 free boys for instance,… Read more »
“Swimmer of the Meet” awards?
Sierra Schmidt and Andrew Seliskar named the Swimmer of the meet.
One more mention : Valente on 100 butterfly ! wowwwwwwwwwww
I have seen races with tiny ( in size ) Japanese girls that were amazingly fast ! Butterfly / back especially . Japan is for me with UK the 2 nations on a solid rise … Usa needs to take note .
Very good meet for Usa of course , the contrary would bring serious questions .
They have a future with very decent men’s sprint freestylers with Pieroni , Powers , James , Dressel and Haas ! Haas is probably the most impressive freestyler i have seen at his age for a long time . What a solid swimmer … and a very good stroke .
Seliskar 200 butterfly was mostly impressive too like the 50… Read more »
If you watched the award presentations for 400 medley relay and after, you would have noticed this group of Japanese girls soaking it up and playing “pretend”. They are a very close knit group of girls with a lot of excitement. Watch for them next summer at the Junior World’s in Singapore – September 1-6. They should have many trips to the podium!
u are right ! they are solid in team spirit and technically very well trained and always giving a salutation to the crowd that feels humble .