2022 NCAA DIVISION III CHAMPIONSHIPS
Whitman junior Tanner Filion swam a 1:41.49 tonight to win the NCAA Division III Males’s 200 backstroke title in addition to break the Division III 200 backstroke file.
This morning, Kenyon’s Yurii Kosian broke the file as he swam a 1:43.43 to be the highest seed heading into finals. Tonight, Kosian swam quicker as he swam a 1:42.90 however the file will stand in Filion’s title as he gained in 1:41.49. Previous to in the present day, the file stood at 1:43.49 as Kenyon’s Harrison Curley swam that point again in 2015.
Coming into the meet, Filion had a seed time of 1:44.57 and was the second seed behind Kosian who got here in with a seed time of 1:44.44.
The most important distinction between the three is that Filion went on in a 23.48 break up tonight. That was the one sub 24 break up of any of the three swimmers.