Lydia Jacoby, a 17-year-old from Seward, Alaska, continued her impressive performance at the US Olympic Swimming Trials in the Women’s 100M Breaststroke with a semi-final heat victory which qualifies Jacoby to the 100M Breaststroke finals scheduled for 4:43 p.m. on Tuesday, June 15th at the CHI Health Center Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.
Jacoby is striving to become the first Alaskan swimmer to qualify to a Summer Olympics as a member of Team USA.
Jacoby won the first heat of two in the semi-finals on Thursday evening, posting a personal-best time of 1:05.71, which ranks her fourth in the world for 2021. Lydia Jacoby rallied from a slow start, fourth off the blocks, and never led until the final 25 meters.
Jacoby will be among eight finalists, which include World Record & American Record holder Lilly King. King posted a 1:04.7 to win the second, semi-final and holds the fastest time for the 100M Breaststroke for 2021.
The finals in the Women’s 100M Breaststroke are scheduled for 4:53 p.m. Alaska Time.
The top two finishers in the finals qualify to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Side Note: The top four women, worldwide, in the breaststroke are all Americans; however, only two can represent the USA in Tokyo.
TV Coverage Information
Qualifying will be aired in the evenings on NBCSN for all seven days of the Wave II meet.
Preliminary heats
June 14-17 and 19: 6:30 p.m. June 18: 6 p.m.
Finals
June 13-17: 8 p.m. ET. June 18-19: 9 p.m. ET. June 20: 8:15 p.m.
All finals will air on NBC, except for those on June 17, which will be live on NBCSN and re-aired on NBC at 10 p.m. ET.
Streaming Information
Live coverage of all races, including preliminaries, will stream on NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports App for the duration of the meet.
Images and audio clips courtesy of NBCOlympics.com
