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Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay — Final
- World Record: 3:26.78 — United States (Murphy, Andrew, Dressel, Apple) (2021)
- World Junior Record: 3:33.19 — Russia (Zurev, Gerasimenko, Minakov, Shchegolev) (2019)
Championship Record: 3:27.20 — United States (Murphy, Fink, Rose, Alexy) (2023)- 2023 World Champion: United States (Murphy, Fink, Rose, Alexy) — 3:27.20
- 2024 Olympic Champion: China (Xu, Qin, Sun, Pan) — 3:27.46
Final:
- Neutral Athletes – B (Lifintsev, Prigoda, Minakov, Kornev) – 3:26.93 *Championship Record*
- France (Ndoye-Brouard, Marchand, Grousset, le Goff) – 3:27.96
- USA (Janton, Matheny, Rose, Alexy) – 3:28.62
- Italy – 3:28.72
- Canada – 3:29.75
- Great Britain – 3:30.63
- South Korea – 3:32.32
- Netherlands – 3:32.35
Gold medal favorites NAB lived up to the hype on the men’s medley relay tonight, as Egor Kornev blasted them past France on the anchor leg as they took the win by more than a second in the 2nd-fastest swim ever.
They broke the U.S.’s Championship Record from 2023 and very nearly beat out the World record set by the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics four years ago. They also smashed the Russian record of 3:28.49 set earlier this year, and broke Italy’s European Record of 3:27.51 from their world-title-winning team in 2022.
Compared to the previous championship record the difference-making split was Egor Kornev’s stunning 46.40 anchor leg, 0.60 seconds faster than Jack Alexy was for the U.S. two years ago.
Miron Lifintsev was slower here than he had been in both heats and finals of the mixed medley relay, but Andrei Minakov was more than half a second faster than this morning on the fly leg. Kirill Prigoda swam his third 57-point of the season after doing so on the mixed medley relay and on the Russian-Record-setting relay in April.
Caeleb Dressel‘s 49.03 is the difference maker between the World Record and NAB’s time tonight. Minakov was over a second slower despite swimming a top-25 split all-time.
| New Championship Record – NAB (2025): 3:26.93 | Old Championship Record – USA (2023): 3:27.20 | World Record – USA (2021) 3:26.78 | |
| Backstroke | Miron Lifintsev – 52.44 | Ryan Murphy – 52.04 | Ryan Murphy – 52.31 |
| Breaststroke | Kirill Prigoda – 57.92 | Nic Fink – 58.03 | Michael Andrew – 58.49 |
| Butterfly | Andrei Minakov – 50.17 | Dare Rose – 50.13 | Caeleb Dressel – 49.03 |
| Freestyle | Egor Kornev – 46.40 | Jack Alexy – 47.00 | Zach Apple – 46.95 |
Three of the four swimmers from the Russian-Record-setting relay in April returned, with Minakov replacing Roman Shevliakov. He was 0.81 seconds faster, and although Lifintsev and Prigoda were slightly slower Kornev dropped a full second on the anchor as they beat the mark of 3:28.39 by 1.56 seconds.
Kornev’s split now stacks up as the 7th-quickest in history.
Italy’s previous European Record had a stronger front half, with Ceccon and Martinenghi going out in 1:49.40 for the fastest first 200 in history, but NAB’s second 200 was 1.54 seconds faster as they took out their 2022 mark by 0.58 seconds.
Compared to Great Britain’s equal European Record, NAB had much faster backstroke and free splits but unsurprisingly were nearly a second and a half slower on the breaststroke. Adam Peaty‘s 56.53 from this relay is the fastest split in history.
| New Russian/European Record – NAB (2025): 3:26.93 | Old European Record – Italy (2022): 3:27.51 | Old European Record – GBR (2021): 3:27.51 | Old Russian Record (2025): 3:28.49 | |
| Backstroke | Miron Lifintsev – 52.44 | Thomas Ceccon – 51.93 | Luke Greenbank – 53.63 | Miron Lifintsev – 52.23 |
| Breaststroke | Kirill Prigoda – 57.92 | Nicolo Martinenghi – 57.47 | Adam Peaty – 56.53 | Kirill Prigoda – 57.89 |
| Butterfly | Andrei Minakov – 50.17 | Federico Burdisso – 50.63 | James Guy – 50.27 | Roman Shevliakov – 50.98 |
| Freestyle | Egor Kornev – 46.40 | Alessandro Miressi – 47.48 | Duncan Scott – 47.08 | Egor Kornev – 47.39 |
This was the second-fastest relay performance in history, and only the second under 3:27. All four of their athletes on tonight’s relay were individual finalists in their stroke 100, but none have medalled individually.
While Prigoda is 30 years old this year, Lifintsev (19), Minakov (23) and Kornev (21) are still on the front end of their careers. Even without further improvements, they should be a force throughout this Olympic cycle and beyond.
Top 10 Performances All-Time, Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay
- USA, 08/01/2021 – 3:26.78 (Murphy, Andrew, Dressel, Apple)
- NAB, 08/03/2025 – 3:26.93 (Lifintsev, Prigoda, Minakov, Kornev)
- CHN, 09/26/2023 – 3:27.01 (Xu, Qin, Wang, Pan)
- USA, 07/30/2023 – 3:27.20 (Murphy, Fink, Rose, Alexy)
- USA, 08/02/2009 – 3:27.28 (Peirsol, Shanteau, Phelps, Walters)
- CHN, 08/04/2025 – 3:27.46 (Xu, Qin, Sun, Pan)
- ITA, 06/25/2022 – 3:27.51 (Ceccon, Martinenghi, Burdisso, Miressi) & GBR, 08/01/2021 – 3:27.51 (Greenbank, Peaty, Guy, Scott)
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- USA, 06/25/2022 – 3:27.79 (Murphy, Fink, Andrew, Held)
- USA, 07/30/2017 – 3:27.91 (Grevers, Cordes, Dressel, Adrian)
Their breastrokers are in their late 20’s. This might be the only time they come out on top for now…..
they shouldn’t be allowed to swim at big meets like this.
They shouldn’t be allowed to swim relays… If your country isn’t recognized, how can you have a relay of your fellow countrymen?