2024 Wolfpack Elite Invite
- November 21-23, 2024
- Greensboro Aquatic Center – Greensboro, NC
- 9:30 am ET prelims/5:30 pm ET finals
- Participating teams: Arizona, Arizona State, Army West Point, Duke, NC State (host), Northwestern, Virginia Tech
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- Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 1 Finals Recap
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Arizona State sophomore Ilya Kharun recorded an 18.89 split on the Sun Devils’ 200 medley relay on Friday at the Wolfpack Elite Invite in North Carolina. That marks the fastest flying split in history in the 50 yard fly, shaving .01 seconds off the 18.90 that Jordan Crooks of Tennessee split at the 2023 SEC Championships.
That’s a big improvement off the 19.47 that Kharun split at last year’s NCAA Championship meet. He split 19.12 earlier this season in the team’s tri meet with Cal and Stanford which was his previous best split.
Kharun’s 50 fly (23.27) hasn’t been as good in long course as his 100 (50.45) or 200 (1:52.80), and the same has held true in short course. With the Arizona State sprint program thriving under new head coach Herbie Behm (who specifically led the ASU sprint group last season), his short-burst abilities have improved. He has further demonstrated that by improving his best time in the 50 free several times already this season, including an 18.51 leadoff on Arizona State’s 200 free relay.
Top 10 50 SCY Fly Relay Splits in History
As best as we can gather:
| 50 Butterfly Split | |
| 1 | 18.89, Ilya Kharun (2024 Wolfpack Elite Invite) |
| 2 | 18.90, Jordan Crooks (2023 SECs) |
| 3 | 18.97, Josh Liendo (2024 NCAAs) |
| 4 | 19.12, Ilya Kharun (2024 ASU vs. Cal vs. Stanford) |
| 5 | 19.15, Nyls Korstanje (2023 NCAAs) |
| 6 | 19.24, Ilya Kharun (2023 NC State Invite) |
| 7 | 19.27, Jordan Crooks (2023 NCAAs) |
| 8 | 19.29, Ilya Kharun (2024 Cal vs. ASU) |
| 9 | 19.30, Ilya Kharun (2024 PAC-12s) |
| 10 | 19.31, Ilya Kharun (2024 ASU v. NC State) |
| 10 | 19.31, Gui Caribe (2024 Tennessee Invite) |
Crooks didn’t swim the fly leg of Tennessee’s 200 medley relay, ceding that spot to his teammate Gui Caribe, who split 19.31 to also enter the top 10 rankings.
Kharun is the defending NCAA Champion in the 200 fly and with his newfound speed is expected to challenge his fellow Canadian Josh Liendo for the 100 fly title this season.
Liendo was 44.60 in the 100 fly in Georgia this week, while Kharun was 43.85 earlier in the night on Friday. Liendo still has the better time of the two, swimming 43.07 to win last year’s NCAA title. Liendo is tiptoeing into Kharun’s title event as well – he swam the 200 fly, not the 100 free, on Friday night at his meet and broke the Florida school record.
Race Videos
200 medley relay final:
100 fly final:
This guy is crazy
Crazy that a little over a season and a half ago, the #2 split all-time then isn’t even in the top 10 anymore now.
Per Feb 14, 2023:
I wonder what caused this explosion of sub-20 splits and now sub-19 splits in the past two years.
You’re also comparing a list of top ten performers from that time to the list in the article which is the top 10 performances. Though it is still ridiculous how far the 50 fly splits have come
Why are Canadians so good at Fly?!!
Insane that he was ever doing distance / mid distance free … kids a cold hard speedster; Ilya has seemed to have found a new gear after the Sandpipers … which makes me really excited for someone like Grimes who will also be joining a program that is more power based.
I know like what do you mean he went 14:56 in the mile and 18:59 in the 50 😭😭
Sprint revolution 😂😂😂
Nah. Not everything’s sprint revolution
Ilya set the 50 & 100 SCM Fly world junior records when he swam for the Sandpipers. That usually takes a lot of speed.
Early thoughts on if Josh or Ilya will win 100 fly at NCAAs? Ilya is on fire but also Josh seems to be a taper swimmer !?
theyre gonna tie in 42 flat
Yeah Ilya is on fire…and still eight-tenths shy of what Josh did last year.
Either could win, but Liendo has to be the favorite still.
True forgot how big the time Difference is (Even though it’s in the article above)
All of the top 10 times is from the past 2 years. Wild
That’s because Caeleb Dressel never swam fly on the medley relay at his peak.
Daddy D woulda been 18.5 or faster
Video on poolside
Wicked impressive Ilya 🍁