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...another experiment designed to pay its dividends later during the championship season, Bernal entered freshman ace Ron Raikula in three consecutive events--the 200 backstroke, 500 freestyle and 200 breaststroke. "My event is the 400 individual medley, which isn't swum in dual meets," Raikula said afterward. "Swimming that triple with almost no rest creates a good simulation of the stress encountered during...
...Raikula won the backstroke in 1:55.9, splashed to second behind localite Jack Guathier in the grueling 500, and then finished s respectable fourth in the breaststroke before being hauled off by his stretcher-wielding teammates...
...Jamie Greacen (H) 283.05, 3. Schauman (A) 271.20; 200-yd. butterfly--1. Maximoff (H) 1:55.71, 2. Dan Menichella (H) 1; 56.40, 3. Ruck (A) 1; 57.04; 100-yd. freestyle--1. Brown (A) 47.29, 2. Cooper (H) 47.40, 3. Greer (H) 48. 64; 200-yd. backstroke--1. Ron Raikula (H) 1; 55.94, 2. Geoff Seelen (H) 1:59.14, 3. Prinslow (A) 2; 0.33; 500-yd. freestyle--1. Fauthier (H) 4:44.01, 2. Raikula (H) 4:48.27, 3. Hein (A) 4:49.82; 200-yd. breastroke--1. Nishimura (A) 2:13.94, 2. Janze (A) 2:16.99, 3. Pat Jakobsen...
...captain Cooper's winning times, 21.24 in the 50-yd. freestyle and 46.79 for 100 yards, were simply incredible for this time of year. Equally spectacular were the performances of Yardlings Ron Raikula and Tim Maximoff who followed last week's flashy debut at Blodgett with victories in the 200 back (1:54) and 500 freestyle (4:43), respectively...
...Raikula's eighth-place finish in August's National AAU 400-meter Individual Medley championship earned him the 16th position in the 1978 world rankings and a position on the United States squad which traveled to Montreal for a dual meet with the Canadian national team two weeks later...