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2024 Men’s NCAAs: Leon Marchand Swims Fastest 100 Breast Split Ever With 48.73

2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

400 YARD MEDLEY RELAY — TIMED FINAL

  • NCAA Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • Meet Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • American Record: 3:01.51 — Cal (R. Murphy, C. Hoppe, M. Josa, M. Jensen), 2017
  • U.S. Open Record: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff), 2023
  • Pool Record: 2:59.22 — Texas (J. Shebat, W. Licon, J. Schooling, J. Conger), 2017
  • 2023 Champion: 2:58.32 — Florida (A. Chaney, D. Hillis, J. Liendo, M. McDuff)

Top 8:

  1. Arizona State – 2:57.32 *NCAA, American, U.S. Open, & Pool Records*
  2. California – 2:58.30
  3. NC State – 2:59.71
  4. Indiana – 3:00.20
  5. Stanford & Tennessee – 3:01.97
  6. Virginia Tech – 3:02.34
  7. Texas – 3:02.44

A total of four splits made the all-time top five performers in history during the 400 medley relay.

Arizona State’s Leon Marchand swam the fastest 100 breast split ever with a 48.73, faster than his 49.23 that he swam at this meet a year ago. Marhand’s split was key for the ASU men to set a new NCAA record as well as win their first NCAA relay title in program history.

After swimming the fastest 50 breast split of all-time on night 1, Cal’s Liam Bell swam a 49.70 here. That sits at the #4 performer of all-time. Bell notably won the individual flat start version of the event earlier in the night in an NCAA record of a 49.53. Although he was a little slower later in the evening, he still made history.

Also making history was Luke Miller of NC State who split a 43.55 on the fly leg to be tied for the 5th fastest performer of all-time. Cal’s anchor leg Bjorn Seeliger blasted a 40.30 which makes him the #5 performer of all-time.

Although Florida was DQed in the relay, Josh Liendo had the fastest 100 fly split in history with a 42.56. As Liendo swam before the relay was DQed (they were DQed on the final leg for an early take-off), the split will count in the list.

All-Time Top 5 Flying Start 100 Breast Performers

1 48.73, Leon Marchand (2024)
2 49.56, Kevin Cordes (2013)
3 49.60, Ian Finnerty (2019)
4 49.70, Liam Bell (2024)
5 49.75, Will Licon (2017)

All-Time Top 5 Flying Start 100 Fly Performers

1 42.56, Josh Liendo (2024)
2 43.34, Joe Schooling (2016)
3 43.35, Ilya Kharun (2023)
4 43.48, Tom Shields (2013)
5 43.55, Austin Staab (2009) / Luke Miller (2024)

All-Time Top 5 Flying Start 100 Free Performers

1 40.15, Caeleb Dressel (2018)
2 40.17, Chris Guiliano (2024)
3 40.23, Nathan Adrian (2009)
4 40.28, Vlad Morozov (2013)
5 40.30, Bjorn Seeliger (2024)

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Swimmer.thingz
9 months ago

Imagine setting the NCAA record and then being beaten by nearly a second in a relay by a 400 swimmer 🫣

MindBoggling
9 months ago

What’s crazy is that if Kos lead off at what he went at Pac12s they’d have been a second faster! And crazy they did this leaving Owen McDonald off and NC State didn’t need Aiden Hayes 🤯 This meet has been beyond my expectations in overall performances!

grizzled bastard
9 months ago

And the backstroke splits?

Spieker Pool Lap Swimmer
9 months ago

I hope Bjorn’s anchor split tonight bodes well for his individual 100 tomorrow.

PFA
9 months ago

Pretty sure after the 8 free relay fell none of the relay records that are US open records are also American records

swim2
9 months ago

So do we think he will go all out in 2 br or save for the 4×100 relay? I assume he will go all out since asu is winning by a good margin.

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
9 months ago

Are you shocked?

chickenlamp
9 months ago

Does Liendo’s 42.5 split count since it was before the DQ?

jablo
Reply to  chickenlamp
9 months ago

i mean duff went early but that doesn’t change when liendo touched

chickenlamp
Reply to  jablo
9 months ago

They had Liendo’s 42.7 split from SECs up initially but I see it’s been update to today’s split

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