2024 Brief Course World Championships
A one-turn man no extra, the defending World Brief Course Champion Jordan Crooks broke the Championship Report, and very-nearly the World Report, within the 100 brief course meter free on Wednesday morning in prelims on the 2024 Brief Course World Championships.
Crooks, from the Cayman Islands, swam 44.95, which ties him because the third-fastest performer within the occasion in historical past and makes him the quickest swimmer since Australian Kyle Chalmers broke the World Report on the 2021 World Cup.
Crooks’ earlier private finest and Cayman Islands Report was a forty five.55 performed at this meet in 2022, the place he was the highest performer within the semifinals. He went on so as to add .22 seconds within the remaining, tying with Pan Zhanle for sixth place.
The previous Championship Report was set a half-day earlier when Jack Alexy of the USA swam 45.05 to guide off the World Report setting American 400 free relay in finals. Alexy was simply ninth in prelims on Wednesday with a 46.57.
Splits Comparability
| Jordan Crooks | Jordan Crooks | Kyle Chalmers | Jack Alexy | |
| Earlier PB | New PB | WR | Earlier CR | |
| 25m | 10.24 | 10.28 | — | 10.10 |
| 50m | 11.39 (21.63) | 11.35 (21.63) | 21.40 | 11.13 (21.23) |
| 75m | 11.97 | 11.78 | — | 11.74 |
| 100m | 11.95 (23.92) | 11.54 (23.32) | 23.44 | 12.08 (23.82) |
| Complete Time | 45.55 | 44.95 | 44.84 | 45.05 |
The splits desk exhibits how far Crooks has progressed within the back-half of his race. The primary 50 break up was equivalent to his outdated private finest time, however he cleared six-tenths off the again half of the race – together with out-splitting Chalmers, who’s extra of a 100-200 man than a 50-100 man and so has good endurance for a sprinter.
This 100 development has proven up for Crooks in all three programs during the last 18 months. He’s dropped a second off his finest time within the 100 yard free for the reason that 2022 SC World Championships, going a finest time of 40.26 just a few weeks in the past on the Tennessee Invite; and a second off his finest time within the 100 meter free in lengthy course in the identical time interval, going 47.71 on the 2023 World Championships.
Crooks’ subsequent large problem can be going his finest time in finals, which is one thing he’s struggled with all through his profession in all programs. Whereas he was well-clear of the sphere, by virtually a second, in prelims, there are some sharks lurking behind him, together with Alexy, American Chris Guiliano (45.94 in prelims), Frenchman Maxime Grousset (46.01 in prelims), and Crooks’ College of Tennessee teammate Gui Santos (46.06 in prelims).
All-Time Prime Performances, 100 SCM Freestyle
- Kyle Chalmers, Australia – 44.84 (2021)
- Amaury Leveaux, France – 44.94 (2009)
- (TIE) Vlad Morozov, Russia (2018)/Jordan Crooks, Cayman Islands (2024) – 44.95
- Kyle Chalmers, Australia – 45.03 (2021)
- Florent Manaudou, France – 45.04 (2013)
- Jack Alexy, USA – 45.05 (2024)
- (TIE) Nathan Adrian, USA (2009)/Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020) – 45.08
- Amaury Leveaux, France – 45.12 (2009)
