2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The U.S. males wrapped up a blistering opening day of racing on the 2024 Brief Course World Championships with a bang on Tuesday, obliterating the world document within the 4×100 freestyle relay.
Jack Alexy was electrical on the lead-off leg, clocking 45.05 to interrupt the American and World Championship Document within the 100 free, and he was adopted by Luke Hobson (45.18), Kieran Smith (46.01) and Chris Guiliano (45.42) as they ran away with the world title by two seconds.
The U.S. group clocked in at 3:01.66, knocking greater than a second off the earlier world document of three:02.75 set by the Italians on the 2022 SC World Championships.
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The People and Italians had nearly similar instances throughout their closing three splits—Paolo Conte Bonin, Leonardo Deplano and Thomas Ceccon mixed to separate 2:16.60 coming down the final 300 for Italy, whereas Hobson, Smith and Guiliano had been 2:16.61.
The difference-maker was Alexy, whose 45.05 lead-off broke the American Document of 45.08 within the 100 free, which was held collectively by Nathan Adrian and Caeleb Dressel, and took down Kyle Chalmers‘ World Championship Document of 45.16 set in 2022.
Alexy’s swim took 1.09 seconds out of Alessandro Miressi, who led off in 46.15 for the Italians two years in the past.
Alexy now ranks fifth all-time within the 100 free with the person occasion nonetheless to return.
All-Time Rankings, Males’s 100 Freestyle (SCM)
- Kyle Chalmers (AUS), 44.84 – 2021
- Amaury Leveaux (FRA), 44.94 – 2008
- Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 44.95 – 2018
- Florent Manaudou (FRA), 45.04 – 2013
- Jack Alexy (USA), 45.05 – 2024
- Nathan Adrian (USA) / Caeleb Dressel (USA), 45.08 – 2009 / 2020
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- Evgeny Lagunov (RUS), 45.36 – 2009
- Maxime Grousset (FRA), 45.41 – 2022
- Matthew Abood (AUS), 45.46 – 2009
Previous to tonight’s relay swim, the American Document within the males’s 4×100 free relay stood at 3:03.03, set by the quartet of Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Michael Chadwick and Ryan Held in 2018.
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In Tuesday’s race, the Italians had been the runner-ups in a t time of three:03.65, whereas Poland rounded out the rostrum in 3:04.46, edging out the Impartial Athletes ‘B’ (Russia) and Brazil.
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ジャック・アレクシー 45.05 =CR
ルーク・ホブソン 45.18
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クリス・ジュリアーノ 45.42pic.twitter.com/WZJgYkof0u https://t.co/uuSvfqGkVa— 競泳NEWS (@swimcoverage) December 10, 2024
The efficiency from the American males marked the sixth world document of the session, 4 of which got here from Group USA. Gretchen Walsh re-broke her world document within the girls’s 50 fly semis, Kate Douglass set a brand new all-time mark within the closing of the ladies’s 200 IM, and the American girls lowered the world document within the 4×100 free relay closing.
Different world information fell by the hands of Summer season McIntosh within the girls’s 400 free closing and Noe Ponti within the males’s 50 fly semis.
