2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – SINGAPORE
After rewriting the file books briefly course yards and breaking one of the vaunted world data in lengthy course meters, Leon Marchand took maintain of his first brief course meter world file on Friday on the Singapore World Cup.
Marchand not solely broke, however obliterated Ryan Lochte‘s 12-year-old world file within the 200 IM, clocking in with a time of 1:48.88 to knock three-quarters of a second off Lochte’s earlier mark of 1:49.63.
Lochte set that world file on the 2012 Quick Course World Championships, which made it the third-oldest male SCM world file on the books.
Marchand additionally lowered the European and French Information of 1:50.30 he set two weeks in the past in the course of the opening leg of the World Cup in Shanghai.
Relative to each Lochte and his swim in Shanghai, Marchand made the most important inroads on Friday over the center 100 meters, splitting a blistering 26.66 on again and 31.18 on breast. Even Lochte, the 2008 Olympic champion within the 200 again, didn’t cut up sub-27 on the backstroke leg of his race.
Break up Comparability
| Lochte, 2012 | Marchand, Shanghai | |
| 23.71 | 23.59 | 23.76 |
| 50.74 (27.03) | 50.88 (27.29) | 50.42 (26.66) |
| 1:22.48 (31.74) | 1:22.74 (31.86) | 1:21.60 (31.18) |
| 1:49.63 (27.15) | 1:50.30 (27.56) | 1:48.88 (27.28) |
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Lochte was beforehand the one swimmer in historical past to interrupt 1:50, and now Marchand joins him, skipping proper over the 1:49s into 1:48 territory within the course of.
All-Time Performers, Males’s 200 IM (SCM)
- Leon Marchand (FRA), 1:48.88 – 2024
- Ryan Lochte (USA), 1:49.63 – 2012
- Matt Sates (RSA), 1:50.15 – 2022
- Shain Casas (USA), 1:50.37 – 2022
- Kosuke Hagino (JPN), 1:50.47 – 2024
The 22-year-old Marchand had come agonizingly near breaking Lochte’s world file within the LCM 200 IM this previous summer time on the Olympics in Paris, clocking 1:54.06 en path to gold whereas falling simply shy of Lochte’s 2011 mark of 1:54.00.
The opposite file Marchand owns in meters is the LCM 400 IM file, which took off the fingers of Michael Phelps final summer time on the 2023 World Championships.
Marchand can be the quickest swimmer in historical past within the 200 IM within the brief course yards pool, having produced a time of 1:36.34 on the 2023 NCAA Championships.
In profitable the occasion in Singapore, Marchand accomplished the Triple Crown within the 200 IM, having swept it in any respect three legs of the sequence. He did the identical within the 100 IM on Thursday, and can look to complete off the triple medley sweep on Saturday within the 400 IM.
Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott was the runner-up to Marchand in a time of 1:51.14, falling simply in need of his British Document of 1:50.98 set final 12 months.
Along with the 400 IM, Marchand can be entered within the 200 free and 200 breast on the ultimate day of racing in Singapore, so it’s potential he’s within the area in a kind of races. He raced the 200 breast in Shanghai, putting 4th in a time of two:02.99.
