2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
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MEN’S 4×100 FREE RELAY – FINAL
- World Record: 3:08.24, United States – 2008 Olympic Games
- Championship Record: 3:09.06, United States – 2019 World Championships
- 2021 Olympic Champion: United States, 3:08.97
- 2019 World Champion: United States, 3:09.06
- United States, 3:09.34
- Australia, 3:10.80
- Italy, 3:10.95
- Great Britain, 3:11.14
- Hungary, 3:11.24
- Canada, 3:11.99
- Brazil, 3:12.21
- Serbia, 3:13.83
The first men’s relay occurred tonight with the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay. The United States men led from the start as Caeleb Dressel led off with the fastest flat start split of the night.
After no sub-48 flat start splits this morning, Dressel (USA), Josh Liendo (Canada), and Nandor Nemeth (Hungary) all went under the 48-second mark.
| Caeleb Dressel– USA | 47.67 |
| Josh Liendo– Canada | 47.87 |
| Nandor Nemeth– Hungary | 47.97 |
| Lewis Burras- Great Britain | 48.09 |
| Alessandro Miressi- Italy | 48.38 |
| William Yang- Australia | 48.41 |
| Gabriel Silva Santos- Brazil | 48.63 |
| Velimir Stjepanovic- Serbia | 48.99 |
The rolling start times were also much faster tonight as no one went under the 47 mark this morning, but four men were under the 47 mark tonight. Kyle Chalmers brought Australia home in the fastest flying start split of the field to help give the Australians a silver medal. Tom Dean brought Great Britain home strong on the last 100 to finish fourth, only 0.19 off of the podium. Kristof Milak brought home country Hungary home in a 46.89 to help them to a fifth-place finish.
Chalmers split for Australia also ties his second fastest relay split of all time. Chalmers went a 46.44 at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as well as a 46.60 at the 2019 World Championships. His 46.60 from tonight is now in a three way tie with Cameron McEvoy and Chalmers from 2019.
Notably, the US was very consistent having all three of their rolling start splits in the top 9 rolling start splits, and more specifically were number 4, 6, and 9.
| Kyle Chalmers– Australia | 46.60 |
| Kristof Milak– Hungary | 46.89 |
| Tom Dean– Great Britain | 46.95 |
| Ryan Held- USA | 46.99 |
| Andrej Barna- Serbia | 47.06 |
| Brooks Curry- USA | 47.20 |
| Lorenzo Zazzeri- Italy | 47.35 |
| Szebasztian Szabo – Hungary | 47.37 |
| Justin Ress- USA | 47.48 |
| Thomas Ceccon- Italy | 47.57 |
| Jack Cartwright- Australia | 47.62 |
| Vinicius Tavares Assuncao- Brazil | 47.63 |
| Manuel Frigo- Italy | 47.65 |
| Marcelo Chierighini- Brazil | 47.77 |
| Jacob Whittle- Great Britain | 47.91 |
| Javier Acevedo- Canada | 47.97 |
| Ruslan Gaziev- Canada | 48.02 |
| Yuri Kisil- Canada | 48.13 |
| Matthew Temple- Australia | 48.17 |
| Felipe Ribeiro de Souza – Brazil | 48.18 |
| Matthew Richards- Great Britain | 48.19 |
| Uros Nikolic- Serbia | 48.65 |
| Richard Bohus- Hungary | 49.01 |
| Nikola Acin- Serbia | 49.13 |
The Aussies showing good signs for 4X 100 free in Paris.
Chalmers is Chalmers, Carthwright getting back after a few years of injuries, Temple can go a lot better, Southam 16 year on the rise Yang with more experience hopefully get better.
Not good enough to match the Americans, but strong medal chance.
Perhaps Kai Taylor and Dylan Andrea will breakthrough in time for Paris as well. After Paris Chalmers will probably retire leaving an enormous hole.
Will be interesting to see if they can go even faster in Birmingham, with Incerti (and Southam) back in the mix, and the others getting some more training in – particularly KK.
46.60 is the joint 7th fastest relay split in history I believe:
That 46.14 from Scott is just crazy
Was Yang wearing one of Chalmer’s caps or am I hallucinating the start of the race ?
He was
It looks like all the Gators are off.
Did anyone else see how Dressel changed up his technique? Even his breathing pattern?
WC’s isn’t the time to get experimental, Dressel.
This is a perfect test set up
He can stumble his way into 6 golds here and if this makes him faster in Paris you do it
Didn’t Kyle go 46.4 in Tokyo?
Yep! 46.44
Milak 46,89! That 100FL battle would be much more intense than it was thought before the meet!!!
i thought Milak was gonna win before the meet now i think he’ll win with a gap
Caeleb lose by a gap? If milak wins it’ll be close
Any word as to the status of Kibler for the 200 Free tomorrow?