2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 27-30, 2024
- IUPUI Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Florida sophomore Josh Liendo and Arizona State (ASU) junior Leon Marchand have accomplished 3-for-3 individual NCAA title sweeps in their respective events, joining an elite historic list. California’s Destin Lasco was close to a 3-for-3 sweep, but fell to fifth in the 100 back final on Friday, leaving him with two 2024 individual NCAA titles.
Liendo started off his individual schedule by winning the 50 free, where he upset last year’s defending champion, Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks. He then ripped 43.07 to become the #2 performer all-time in the 100 fly. Tonight, Liendo sealed the deal by defending his 2023 title in the 100 free at 40.20, exactly 0.08s faster than last year. The Canadian native now joins fellow Florida alum Caeleb Dressel (2017-2018) and Cal alum Ryan Hoffer (2021) in sweeping those three exact events.
Meanwhile, this was Marchand’s second consecutive championship meet where he swept all three of his individual events. What made his feat stand out was his event lineup change, whereas Dressel repeated his back-to-back triple wins in the same events. Back in 2023, Marchand swept the 200 IM/400 IM/200 breast. This year, Marchand kicked things off with a whopping 4:02.31 in the 500 free, which marked a new NCAA record. He then defended his 400 IM title in 3:32.12. Marchand ended his 2024 triple event sweep in style with a new 200 breast NCAA record of 1:46.35.
Recently at the 2024 Women’s NCAA Championships, Virginia sisters Gretchen Walsh and Alex Walsh also accomplished the same feat as Liendo and Marchand. Liendo matched G.Walsh’s 50 free/100 fly/100 free triple crown while Marchand equaled A.Walsh’s second time performing a 3-for-3 event sweep.
3-for-3 NCAA Title Sweep Champions Since 2017 |
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| Year | Swimmer | Team | Event 1 | Event 2 | Event 3 |
| 2017 | Will Licon | Texas | 200 IM | 100 BR | 200 BR |
| 2017 | Katie Ledecky | Stanford | 500 FR | 200 FR | 1650 FR |
| 2017 | Kathleen Baker | Cal | 200 IM | 100 BK | 200 BK |
| 2017 | Caeleb Dressel | Florida | 50 FR | 100 FL | 100 FR |
| 2018 | Ella Eastin | Stanford | 200 IM | 400 IM | 200 FL |
| 2018 | Caeleb Dressel | Florida | 50 FR | 100 FL | 100 FR |
| 2019 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin | 200 IM | 100 BK | 200 BK |
| 2019 | Andrew Seliskar | Cal | 200 IM | 200 FR | 200 BR |
| 2021 | Paige Madden | Virginia | 500 FR | 200 FR | 1650 FR |
| 2021 | Shaine Casas | Texas A&M | 200 IM | 100 BK | 200 BK |
| 2021 | Ryan Hoffer | Cal | 50 FR | 100 FL | 100 FR |
| 2022 | Kate Douglass | Virginia | 50 FR | 100 FL | 200 BR |
| 2022 | Alex Walsh | Virginia | 200 IM | 400 IM | 200 FL |
| 2023 | Kate Douglass | Virginia | 200 IM | 100 FL | 200 BR |
| 2023 | Leon Marchand | Arizona St | 200 IM | 400 IM | 200 BR |
| 2024 | Gretchen Walsh | Virginia | 50 FR | 100 FL | 100 FR |
| 2024 | Alex Walsh | Virginia | 200 IM | 400 IM | 200 BR |
| 2024 | Josh Liendo | Florida | 50 FR | 100 FL | 100 FR |
| 2024 | Leon Marchand | Arizona St | 500 FR | 400 IM | 200 BR |
Please do an article, by decade, of who has accomplished this. Back to the 70s! Would be awesome to see.
Matt Biondi won the 50, 100 and 200 free in 1986.
John Nabor won the 100 & 200 Back and 500 free in 1974 or 75.
You all forget Josh accomplished.
500 free and 4-IM, gotta be multiple folks who have won these two together…..400 IM and 2 Breast, Chase comes to mind as having won both, I think…..500 free and 200 breast? That’s a Kate Douglas double lol
50(0) free/200 breast
Honestly with the 500 free field this year, I think Alex Walsh totally could’ve taken a crack at winning the event if she wanted to, which would end up being the same triple as Marchand. Ofc that’s all in hindsight, with Bella’s winning time being like 4 seconds slower than her pb
I think the men’s and women’s NCAAs this year were the 2 closest we’ve gotten to three swimmers going 3-for-3 in the same meet. Bobby Finke got close ish in 2021 but winning the 500 free would’ve been a stretch, while Bella and Destin seemed much more capable of winning the 200 back/100 back respectively
Neither of them are American.
And?