2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th
- Budapest, Hungary
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The USA men put up the fastest textile time ever in the men’s 4×100 medley relay to close the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest Hungary. Matt Grevers, who took bronze in the 50 back earlier in the session, had an impressive showing on the back end of his double. He got the Americans an early lead with his 52.26 on the backstroke leg, marking his fastest swim since 2012 and his 3rd fastest swim of his career. That split tied him with World Record holder Ryan Murphy for the 9th fastest time ever done by an American.
Breaststroker Kevin Cordes took over, putting up a 58.89 split to hand off to 100 fly world champion Caeleb Dressel. Great Britain held the lead going into the fly leg by a fingernail, but Dressel blasted a 49.76 fly split to push the Americans ahead. That was the fastest textile 100 fly split in history, and once again just .04 shy of the fastest ever, which stands as a 49.72 done by Michael Phelps in 2009.
Sprint veteran Nathan Adrian finished things off with a speedy 47.00, as the USA touched in 3:27.91 for the fastest textile swim ever. That clipped the former textile best of 3:27.95 done by the USA at last summer’s Rio Olympics.
TEAM USA 4×100 MEDLEY RELAY SPLITS
- 100 Back Split: Matt Grevers– 52.26
- 100 Breast Split: Kevin Cordes– 58.89
- 100 Fly Split: Caeleb Dressel– 49.76
- 100 Free Split: Nathan Adrian– 47.00
Seeing the cream of countries’ swimming stock come medley time is always exciting!! I wonder who will eventually be tagged with Adrian’s role in bringing it home? Caeleb cloned would be mad…an against the rules…but someone, from Gaines, Biondil to Jones always seemingly appears!! Go USA!!
If we’re gonna clone anyone to anchor our relays it should be Adrian, again. The dude has split 46.60 in textile, at a meet where he barely broke 48 individually. He even split multiple 47.0’s this week, at a meet where he has been relatively blah. He has a history of swimming on relays at a level well above his individual.
Caeleb is fast, and hopefully one day he’ll figure the relay thing out, but right now he is just not the same level of relay swimmer that Adrian is.
Why do we have to keep saying textile? We get it. It’s not the fastest, but probably should should be. And I get that if you couldn’t say “textile fastest yada yada” then you probably couldn’t have a title for a while(until suited records are broken). Just seems silly that we’re in this “textile” world now. Looking forward to when we don’t have to say that word anymore, it jars the ear.
Because I don’t already find article of men’s 4x100m medley relay here, I want to share my opinion of the race here. Had GBR had elite backstroke swimmer who can set under 53.20, the race would have been tougher. CH Walker is GBR’s weakest member. The margin in backstroke is almost 2 sec between him and Grevers. Thanks to Adam Peaty who nullify the deficit and even make GBR lead by 0.04 sec. But this is not enough as the Gator made USA retake the lead by 1 sec. Adrian only had to maintain the lead, making the overall margin of 1.04 sec at the end. Is it that difficult for GBR to find Liam Tancock successor so they will… Read more »
Apparently, yes.
With a 0.47 rt… if he had a better rt hed have been 49.5
I never understand reaction times that slow, especially at meets that go to RT for DQ’s. It’s really not hard to get a .1 or .2 reaction time every single time you do a relay. Only when you go .09 or below that it starts to possibly look early
It’s easy for you to nail relay starts? Team USA should hire you to coach instead of these slackers
I mean with a little practice it’s not hard to go a .1 or .2. And .1 and .2 RT’s are visibly safe. Add to that they go to the RT to DQ people, and you’re totally set. .47 is just way too safe in my opinion at a meet that they use the RT to DQ relays.
My college team had a reaction timer that we used during practice. Even the slowest guys were .25 or below during training. Never had a guy over .10 during a championship meet. From experience and observation, it’s really not that hard to keep ’em under .3.
When you have 4 incredible swimmers on the relay you win the race with swimming, not aggressive starts. No since in risking the DQ.
I can’t believe I’m getting flak for this. A .2 is pushing it?? Adrian was a .19 on that relay and was obviously safe
Chill, SWIMMER. Some people just like to argue a point. You’re spot on with your observation.
Agreed. .47 is aggressively slow at this stage and it shouldn’t be a taboo to make that point.
I completely understand why he was conservative. No point in pushing the start. He totally COULD have been under .3 and even .2 if he wanted to which is why i said he could have been 49.5 in a close race
Just seen another reference to Caeleb and stalls , clearly missed something?! What s up with it?
So now Caeleb is probably to be considered a better butterfly swimmer than freestyle. And at NCAAs he said he doesn’t even really train fly. I think that was evident in his 100 fly races, long into walls and mediocre turns for his standard. If true and he starts training more fly….we could be in for something incredible. Same for James Guy
the 17 year old Hungarian too.. mylak? .. and schooling…
Kristof Milak. Don’t forget his 1:53 earlier this summer- faster than Phelps ever went at his age (!!!!!!). Kid looks to be the future of butterfly swimming and I can’t wait to see his duels with Dressel/Schooling/Others in the years to come.
Even the great Phelps made mistake by just gliding into the wall when finishing his 200m fly at London 2012, which costed him to Le Clos. I think it is still difficult in real situation to measure distance to know the right time for finishing. As a result, the swimmer only has two options : do more strokes or just gliding.
Caeleb dressel definitely trains fly. Maybe he didn’t before ncaas,but there’s no way he didn’t up until world trials.
7 golds ties MP for most golds in worlds. I think
It does, but 4 of them were relays, as opposed to Phelps 2 relay swims and 5 individual golds from Melbourne. In addition, there were two more events for Dressel to contest that he won that did not exist in Phelps time, simply magnifying how massive of an achievement that Melbourne really was.
Did you see that Haas had minus .03 start in prelims
Hmmm, are we counting the mixed relays now?