2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay — Final
World Record: 3:18.98 — Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, K. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, K. Smith) (2022)Championship Record: 3:18.98 — Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, K. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, K. Smith) (2022)- 2022 Champion: Tie – Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, K. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, K. Smith) — 3:18.98
Final:
- Neutral Athletes ‘B’ ( Lifintsev, Prigoda, Minkov, Kornev) — 3:18.68 ***WORLD RECORD***
- United States (Casas, Andrew, Rose, Alexy) — 3:19.03
- Italy (Mora, Viberti, Busa, Miressi) — 3:19.91
- Poland — 3:21.02
- Canada — 3:21.17
- Australia — 3:22.03
- France — 3:22.53
- Japan — 3:23.20
The Neutral Athletes ‘B’ relay closed the 2024 World Championships in a recap of the week….another World Record. The relay swam to a time of a 3:18.68, breaking the previous record of a 3:18.98 that both Australia and the US swam at 2022 SC Worlds.
Split Comparison
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Neutral Athletes New Record
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US Old Record |
Australia Old Record
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| Back | Miron Lifintsev | 49.31 | Ryan Murphy | 48.96 | Isaac Cooper | 49.46 |
| Breast | Kirill Prigoda | 55.15 | Nic Fink | 54.88 | Joshua Yong | 56.55 |
| Fly | Andrei Minakov | 48.8 | Trenton Julian | 49.19 | Matthew Temple | 48.34 |
| Free | Rgor Kornev | 45.42 | Kieran Smith | 45.95 | Kyle Chalmers | 44.63 |
The difference in splits is hard to quantify as the US was much faster on the front half of the relay while Australia was much faster on the back half of their relay. Instead, the Nuetral Athletes fell right in the middle with their splits being faster than Australia on the front half and slower on the back half, and slower on the front half compared to the US and faster on the back half.
Despite winning the individual 100 back earlier in the meet, Miron Lifintsev led the relay off in the 3rd fastest swim with a 49.31. Kirill Prigoda‘s breaststroke leg then put the relay in front. Andrei Minakov had a big fly split with a 48.80, much faster than his 49.36 from the morning.
The Neutral Athletes ‘B’ are from Russia and were allowed to compete together on relays in Budapest. The Russian federations is officially suspended because of the ongoing war in Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian sporting organizations.
Michael Andrew’s best time in SCM is 57.2 He basically did his best time.
If a team lost, a scapegoat is singled out; if a team won, the quartet draws accolade.
Fans and critics are liable to libel a swimmer who did give it all, as is not fair at all to him…
France placed 7th. Not much of interest, you say?
1) On Freestyle leg, 100 Free Champion Alexy was great; his :44.53 surpassed the fastest-ever split of :44.63 which Alexy shared (from anchor of Mixed Medley here) with Kyle Chalmers from ’22 Melbourne. But Jack A did not have the fastest split in this race; that honor, and now fastest ever, went to Maxime Grousset for France at :44.51, back in 7th so no one would notice.
2) On breaststroke, France had the slowest leg in the field, a :58.10 from Roman Fuchs. Leon Marchand has no 100 SCM Breaststroke PB listed in SwimCloud, but he has swum a 100 SCY Breaststroke relay leg at a full rest. At the 2024… Read more »
I think Fink was 2.15 seconds faster than Andrew in the previous word record matching swim.
How does this work? When the sanctions are lifted, does this record revert back to Russia? I understand that old USSR world records were not changed to Russia after 1991, but that was another country. I’m this case Neutral Athletes B is an administrative restriction to the Russian federation. Is it a world best time instead, like the 4×50 free from France?
I think the record would stay listed as “Neutral Athletes B”. Certainly the records set by the Unified Team at the ’92 Barcelona Olympics continued to be listed as “Unified Team” until they were broken.
After my 12 years of competitive swimming, it’s a bit dicey to say ‘one swimmer’ lost any relay, but isn’t it the case that Michael Andrew’s breaststroke split was simply pathetic? Furthermore, given the rest of TEAM USA’s performances, he would have had to be mere tenths of a second better for the win — but, what he did was the swimming equivalent of a face plant.
It was the best split they had available. Not his fault, rather their qualifying rules
Geez, US couldn’t find a more competitive breaststroker for this relay?
they didn’t use a new qualifying method to bring the one who could fill that breast spot with a faster qualifying time than Andrew ou Pouch . Thats what truly happened ….
I guess Matt King hasn’t been at Indiana long enough yet to suddenly and inexplicably be a great sprint breaststroker.
If Neutral Athletes B is setting world records, what can Neutral Athletes A do?
Depends on how much oxygen has been artificially added to their blood through the use of PEDs
No proof, but you might well be right. Team Russia has a “storied” history ( and her-story) of WADA violations and state-sanctioned cheating (cf. Sochi Winter Olympics)
Neutral Athletes A is Belarus. They can do nothing. All they have is a breaststroker. Neutral Athletes C is Mexico. They can do even less.
It was my attempt at a joke. I apologize
If it’s any comfort, I thought it was pretty funny