Armstrong’s scratch is one of only three from the Day 3 A and B finals in Ft. Lauderdale. Jack Harvey is the lone ‘A’ final scratch (men’s 200 back). Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Live Recaps
- Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3
- Finals: Day 1 | Day 2
This will be a relatively short scratch report—there were only three top 16 scratches for the third finals session of the Fort Lauderdale Pro Swim Series. None came from the women’s side of the meet, and the only events affected were the men’s 200 backstroke and men’s 50 butterfly.
Jack Harvey is the only championship final qualifier to bow out of finals tonight. Harvey scratched out of the men’s 200 backstroke final after originally qualifying fourth overall in a lifetime best 2:01.05. The decision moves Sarasota Sharks’ David Melnychuk, who swam 2:02.28 this morning, into the ‘A’ final. Melnychuk, a UNC commit in the class of 2025, swam a lifetime best of 2:01.57 at February’s Southern Zone South Sectional Championships.
The other scratch in the event is the #16 seed, Gerhardt Hoover from Commonwealth Swimming. With him out of finals as well, both alternates, #17 David King (2:04.82) and #18 Denis Mialkovskyi draw into a second swim…