2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Championships: Day 3 Relay Split Analysis

2023 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

On Friday night, the Florida quartet of Adam Chaney, Dillon Hillis, Josh Liendo, and Macguire McDuff took down the NCAA and US Open record in the 400 medley relay in a time of 2:58.32. In this article, we take a look at some of the splits recorded in this race.

Newly-crowned NCAA champ Brendan Burns gave Indiana the lead after the backstroke, as he clocked a 43.82 that was just 0.21 seconds off his PB of 43.61 that won the individual race. Then, ASU’s Leon Marchand dropped a 49.23 breast split, which was the fastest in the field by over a second and also the fastest in history. On fly, it was Josh Liendo wh0 broke records as he clocked the first-ever sub-43 100 fly split at 42.91. Finally, McDuff anchored in 40.90 to give the Gators the win, while Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger had the fastest split in the field at 40.45. The other two 40-point splits in the field were done by freshmen Jonny Kulow and Gui Caribe, who went 40.77 and 40.78 respectively.

Back

Team Swimmer Time
Indiana Brendan Burns 43.82
NC State Kacper Stokowski 43.83
Cal Destin Lasco 44.07
Florida Adam Chaney 44.28
ASU Jack Dolan 44.62
Tennessee Nick Simons 45.46
Auburn Nate Stoffle 45.5
Missouri Jack Dahlgren 45.56
Virginia Matt Brownstead 45.64
Stanford Leon MacAllister 45.71
Virginia Tech Forest Webb 45.77
Texas A&M Ethan Gogulski 45.79
Harvard Will Grant 45.82
Michigan Wyatt Davis 45.87
Wisconsin Wes Jekel 45.93
Texas Carson Foster 45.96
Alabama Matt Menke 46.17
Pitt Kryzysztof Radzisewski 46.37
Ohio State Alex Quach 47.13

Breast

Team Swimmer Time
ASU Leon Marchand 49.23
Florida Dillon Hillis 50.23
Texas Caspar Corbeau 50.23
Indiana Josh Matheny 50.31
Auburn Reid Mikuta 50.53
Missouri Ben Patton 50.75
Virginia Noah Nichols 50.75
Pitt Cooper Van Der Laan 50.88
Stanford Ron Polonsky 51.02
Texas A&M Andres Puente Bustamente 51.19
NC State Mason Hunter 51.2
Cal Reece Whitley 51.37
Virginia Tech Carles Coll Marti 51.43
Alabama Derek Maas 51.43
Wisconsin Will Myhre 51.68
Tennessee Lyubomir Epitropov 51.82
Michigan Brendan Fitzpatrick 52
Harvard Jared Simpson 52.48
Ohio State Karl Helmuth 52.7

Fly

Team Swimmer Time
Florida Josh Liendo 42.91
Virginia Tech Youssef Ramadan 43.62
Indiana Tomer Frankel 43.7
NC State Aiden Hayes 43.95
Tennessee Jordan Crooks 44
Stanford Andrei Minakov 44.45
Cal Gabriel Jett 44.49
ASU Max McCusker 44.55
Missouri Clement Secchi 44.85
Harvard Umit Gures 45.11
Texas A&M Connor Foote 45.25
Texas Cole Crane 45.33
Virginia Tim Connery 45.33
Michigan Gal Cohen Groumi 45.44
Wisconsin Cosntantin Bensch 45.64
Auburn Aidan Stoffle 45.68
Ohio State James Ward 46.05
Pitt Marin Goraj 46.22
Alabama Mateo Miceli 46.24

Free

Team Swimmer Time
Cal Bjorn Seeliger 40.45
Tennessee Gui Caribe 40.77
ASU Jonny Kulow 40.78
Florida Macguire McDuff 40.9
NC State Luke Miller 41.24
Indiana Rafael Miroslaw 41.26
Texas Luke Hobson 41.48
Virginia Tech Luis Dominguez 41.71
Virginia Jack Aikins 41.78
Michigan Bence Szabados 41.86
Auburn Kalle Makinen 42.05
Texas A&M Koko Bratanov 42.08
Missouri Grant Bochenski 42.1
Alabama Kaique Alves 42.21
Pitt Dominic Toledo Sanchez 42.25
Harvard Marcus Holmquist 42.36
Stanford Luke Maurer 42.43
Wisconsin Taiko Torepe-Ormsby 42.45
Ohio State Ruslan Gaziev 43.37

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too fly
1 year ago

Comparisons with the fastest splits of all time should be added here

Thomas Selig
1 year ago

So, what’s the fastest 100 free relay split of all time? I know Dressel has a 39.9 flat start, but did he ever go sub-40 on relays? Could Marchand complete the full-house of NCAA records in all 3 of his individuals AND fastest ever relay splits in all 4 of his relays?

miself
Reply to  Thomas Selig
1 year ago

I see 40.15 in 2018 and yes

VFL
1 year ago

Gui!

Demarrit Steenbergen
1 year ago

Bjorn looking good, wtf to OSU?

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