2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – SINGAPORE
Duncan Scott took the bull by horns and attacked the ultimate of the boys’s 400 freestyle from the bounce on the closing cease of the 2024 World Cup sequence in Singapore, and it paid off.
After profitable the 400 free on the opening leg of the sequence in Shanghai, Scott was edged out by China’s Pan Zhanle final week in Incheon after Pan produced a blistering closing 50 to get his hand on the wall first.
In Singapore, Scott didn’t depart it all the way down to a final 50 dash. He took the lead by the 75-meter mark, and turned in 1:45.32 on the 200, placing him multiple second away from the next-best swimmer, American Kieran Smith, whereas additionally placing him greater than two seconds quicker than his tempo in Incheon.
Scott would solely lengthen his lead the remainder of the way in which, ending in a time of three:34.46 to not solely take greater than two seconds off his earlier greatest time of three:36.98, set in Shanghai, however break a 22-year-old Commonwealth Document.
Scott’s time lowered Australian Grant Hackett‘s longstanding Commonwealth Document of three:34.58, set again in July 2002. It additionally took down James Man‘s British Document of three:36.35, set on the 2014 SC World Championships, which Scott had come inside hanging distance of in Shanghai.
Break up Comparability
| Hackett, 2002 | Man, 2014 | Scott, Shanghai | Scott, Singapore |
| 51.35 | 52.24 | 52.37 | 51.72 |
| 1:45.40 (54.05) | 1:47.65 (55.41) | 1:47.93 (55.56) | 1:45.32 (53.60) |
| 2:40.25 (54.85) | 2:42.33 (54.68) | 2:43.19 (55.26) | 2:39.73 (54.41) |
| 3:34.58 (54.33) | 3:36.35 (54.02) | 3:36.98 (53.79) | 3:34.46 (54.73) |
Scott, who’s the eleventh swimmer in historical past to interrupt the three:35 barrier, strikes into #6 all-time.
All-Time Performers, Males’s 400 Freestyle (SCM)
- Yannick Agnel (FRA), 3:32.25 – 2012
- Paul Biedermann (GER), 3:32.77 – 2009
- Danas Rapsys (LTU), 3:33.20 – 2019
- Peter Bernek (HUN), 3:34.32 – 2014
- Kieran Smith (USA), 3:34.38 – 2022
- Duncan Scott (GBR), 3:34.46 – 2024
- Grant Hackett (AUS), 3:34.58 – 2002
- Park Tae Hwan (KOR), 3:34.59 – 2016
- Ian Thorpe (AUS), 3:34.63 – 2003
- Zhang Lin (CHN), 3:34.66 – 2009
Smith would end because the runner-up within the race in 3:36.97, whereas Pan positioned third in 3:38.79.
In Incheon, Pan received in a time of three:36.43, with Scott inserting second in 3:37.04.
Regardless of lacking it within the 400 free, Scott might be aiming to earn the Triple Crown bonus on Saturday within the males’s 200 free, having received the occasion in each Shanghai and Incheon.
