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Rex Maurer Outsplit NCAA Report to End His 1650 on the Texas Corridor of Fame Invitational

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Rex Maurer had an unbelievable efficiency on the Texas Corridor of Fame Invitational, setting the American file within the 500 freestyle and ending the meet with three nation-leading occasions within the 500 free, 400 IM, and 1650 free.

On the final day of the meet, Maurer gained the 1650, dropping 24 seconds and setting a brand new greatest time of 14:30.47. Not solely is that this time quicker than anybody else this 12 months, additionally it is quicker than the time that gained the 2024 NCAA Championships (Zalan Sarknay’s 14:30.57).

On the subject of race technique, Maurer had a distinct method than others, negative-splitting his 1600, and coming house quicker in his final 250 than top-of-the-line closers ever, Bobby Finke, in his NCAA file swim.

Break up Comparability

Rex Maurer (2024 Texas HOF Invite) Bobby Finke (2020 SEC Championships)
100 50.84 49.17
200 53.72 51.27
300 53.97 51.60
400 54.05 51.64
500 53.79 51.60
600 53.59 51.91
700 54.08 51.72
800 53.64 51.94
900 53.40 52.03
1000 53.28 51.75
1100 53.00 52.24
1200 52.59 51.93
1300 52.45 52.08
1400 52.19 52.12
1500 51.33 52.07
1600 50.63 51.92
1650 23.92 25.09
Closing Time 14:30.47 14:12.08

Maurer’s first 800 was 7:07.68, and consisted of largely 53 and 54-second 100s. His second 800 dropped to six:58.87, the place he went solely two 53s, and the remainder of the race was 52s, 51s and one 50. His sixteenth 100 was quicker than his first 100 at 50.63 to 50.84, and his final 50 of 23.92 was over a second quicker than anybody else within the subject.

Finke took on a totally totally different technique, opening the primary 800 in 6:50.85, then splitting 6:56.14 on the following 800. Not like Maurer, his first 100 was his quickest—he break up the race constantly all through and ended up with a time 18 seconds quicker than Maurer.

When Maurer swam these splits on Friday night, he took it out comparatively simple and he was behind second place swimmer David Johnston for a lot of the race. It wasn’t till the 1550 mark that Maurer overtook him, and 100 later he gained the race by 5 seconds. In comparison with Maurer, Johnston break up a really constant race, however misplaced to the unbelievable again finish velocity Maurer put up.

Final 250 Break up Comparability

Rex Maurer Bobby Finke David Johnston
1450 25.65 26.03 26.69
1500 25.68 26.04 26.89
1550 25.60 25.87 26.91
1600 25.03 26.05 27.15
1650 23.92 25.09 26.11
Whole 250 time 2:05.88 2:09.08 2:13.75

Maurer was quicker on the again finish than even Finke’s NCAA file breaking swim. If he finds a strategy to preserve maintain of his blistering again finish velocity whereas being quicker within the entrance, like Finke’s 1500m world file swim, we might see Maurer problem Finke’s NCAA file within the coming years. In any case, Finke was solely 14:47 in November of 2019, and he set the file in February of 2020.



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