2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE: GROUP B, MATCH 1
- Saturday, October 19th – Sunday, October 20th
- 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Central Time
- The LISD Westside Aquatic Center – Lewisville, TX
- Short Course Meters (SCM)
- Group B: Iron, LA Current, London Roar, New York Breakers
- Live Stream, Event Schedule, and Viewer’s Guide
- U.S. Live Stream (ESPN3)
- Day 2 Start Lists
- Day One Complete Results
Reported by Anne Lepesant/Jared Anderson.
MEN’S 100 FREE
- Kyle Chalmers (LON) – 46.22
- Vladimir Morozov (IRO) – 46.29
- Nathan Adrian (LAC) – 46.63
- Marcelo Chierighini (NYB) / Ryan Held (LAC) – 47.06
- (tie)
- Szebasztian Szabo (IRO) – 47.31
- Cameron McEvoy (LON) – 47.36
- Marius Kusch (NYB) – 47.69
Vladimir Morozov and Marcelo Chierighini took it out quick, but as we’ve seen time and time again, Kyle Chalmers had a wicked back half to surge past Morozov over the final few strokes, and take the win, 46.22 to 46.29. Veteran Nathan Adrian stayed at the front of the pack the whole way, and ultimately took 3rd in 46.63. Chierighini faded just a bit, tying with the Current’s Ryan Held for 4th in 47.06.
A pretty tightly-packed field that could see a lot of shuffling in Budapest next week. Chalmers just beat Morozov, and you wonder if that gives any indication how the two would do in the multiround skins race later on – Morozov is without question faster over 50 meters, but Chalmers has elite endurance that should serve him well, should he make it past round 1.
Best interview of Kyle !!! absolutely love the guy & his passion for the sport
Let’s hope isl makes its way to Australia
My guess it would draw a fair crowd
Melbourne based team would sell everything out.
Melbourne loves live sport.
How many would be interested in a “game” like NFL Fantasy or Fantasy Premier League but for ISL instead? Like drafting swimmers or picking your team?
Can we get a SwimSwam breakdown of which team is the best now that every team has swam at least 1 weekend? It could be done by combining results from Lewisville & Naples (or Lewisville and Indy). It would probably be better to wait until after Budapest once the Roar has more of their swimmers back, but if we were to project out who would win in Vegas (likely between Roar, Energy Standard, Condors, and Current), which of those 4 teams would win based off results thus far?
Well, we know which team needs a break …
This made me laugh
I actually just tried to play around with this myself (I was bored) but writing a script to extract the data from the results PDFs reliably turned out to be a total nightmare and I can’t be bothered doing it all manually.
I ended up doing this manually. Agreed that pdfs are not script-friendly.
Thanks for the idea; I went ahead and did this. Based solely off the results from Indy and Lewisville, it would be:
1. London Roar
2. Energy Standard
3. LA Current
4. Cali Condors
With multiple caveats, of course. Like how London Roar is missing a couple British swimmers here, and Cali Condors is missing Dressel.
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T_hDP02HIn-5aBKKVgJBzwoRsKTJaFR5UcJFP1U3Q30/edit?usp=sharing
It would be really funny if one of these four didn’t end up making the final in Vegas.
Thanks! That must have been tedious. Did you manually pull out all the times or just compile a top 8 list for each event from cross referencing the PDFs? Probably should have done Naples instead of Indy cos Dressel made quite a difference.
I had two pdfs up on my screen and just manually cross-referenced them, figuring out the ranking order by looking at the times. It was tedious but I actually kinda liked going through them, because you pick up on patterns.
I felt like it wouldn’t be fair to London Roar to use Naples because they’re missing about 5 swimmers in Lewisville, quite a few of whom should make at least a bit of impact. I’ll do a Naples to Budapest comparison after this weekend. I’d guess that Dressel probably created a ~50 point swing for Cali Condors against Energy Standard.
I had a bit of a play around with updating the spreadsheet with any faster times and missing swimmers from Naples and the end ranking of the teams stays the same with slight changes in points. I do need to double check it though.
I’m not surprised. London Roar is the most well-rounded team, and probably the strongest. Cali Condors has a comparatively weak men’s team and LA Current has a comparatively weak women’s team. Energy Standard has the stars and the sprint depth, but not enough individual event depth, especially on the women’s side.
Gonna be a lot of very disappointed swimmers (and fans) if the league doesn’t end up succeeding.
Next week when all have had 2 comps drop the lowest performers . We need a Vaudeville style elimination gizmo , a 21st C laser hook that dtags them off .
Can someone translate this into English for me?
You have no cultural knowledge . If you never knew of vaudeville concerts where awful performers were unceremoniosly taken off the stage , surely you saw the catoons?
Its show biz & short of the blackface we should bring back these simple pleasures.for audiences.
translation in swimming terms pls ?
Get rid of t he duds. Don’t care who they are , slow is slow . Go home .
How many would be interested in a “game” like NFL Fantasy or Fantasy Premier League but for ISL instead? Like drafting swimmers or picking your team?
Very interested
My friend does this for ncaas. Last year helped him pick out his draft, it was like the 6tg round between 6 ppl and no one had picked up Shebat 🤦🏾♂️ obviously told him to pick him up immediately lol
Honestly can’t get enough of these positive, and optimistic interviews. It’s so much fun to here these swimmers legitimately excited to be a part of this. He sounds about as excited and giddy as you would expect a chill guy like him to be.
That’s because he was never on a competitive team at state teams
Isn’t there only 1 competitive team at state teams?
Harsh 😊. The atmosphere is pretty damn good in Canberra though . Lots of passionate cheering
Yeah I know I was just messing around. It’s a great meet. I got to do it and it was probably the second best swim meet I’ve participated in for atmosphere.
GPS is better.
GPS is slow though 😂😂
Worse swimming sure. But much, much more fun.
Qld GPS???
Yeah. Great fun.
Decent competition. No shortage of Olympians and Olympic medalists out of that 9 school GPS competition
Possibly more from the gold coasts APS – McEvoy, Winnington etc
I very much doubt
Sure. And they wipe the floor with everyone else.
Because of the way that meet works it isn’t loaded with talent like state teams is.
Usually a handful of kids at the schools that invest in the sport wiping the floor with everyone else.
I agree JRed. GPS swum in briefs only on an accelerated time basis. Some times only 15 mins between swims.
Stephen Holland. Medallist 1976
Mark tonelli. Gold medal 1980
John seiben. Gold medal 1984
Duncan Armstrong. Gold medal 1988
Perkins. Gold medal 1992
Perkins. Gold medal 1996
N Sprenger. Silver medal. 2004
B Rickard Silver 2008. And c sprenger silver And l Brodie bronze
C sprenger 2012 silver and bronze. Rickard bronze
M Larkin 2016 silver and bronze
That’s not a bad list of medallists who have swum at the qld GPS carnival. Add David theil etc which were before my time.
Tom Neill current student. Improving for next year?
I reckon there is a lot more talent spread across the schools – not just limited to a few swimmers.
Most recently this year, not counting Tom Niells swims which were very good – it is still rare that one swimmer wins all three of his events – such is the competition.
There were 7 of 9 15yo (ie under 16) boys who swam 24.6 or under 50m free
There were 6 of 9 15yo boys who swam 32.05 or under 50 breast
The 50 Back won in low 27
The fly in 25.4
The 100m free in 52.8
And 1.58 in the 200m free only getting third
Was good to see multiple different winners across those 6 events.
Kyle would’ve killed in the NCAA, glad to know the athletes loves the ISL as much as us fans do
Would be something to see ISL do a yards meet. Chalmers, Peaty