Yale’s 400 Medley Relay Breaks Ivy Meet and Pool Records with 3:04.65

2026 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

Men’s 400 Yard Medley Relay – Timed Final

  • Ivy League Record: 3:03.24, Harvard (Farris, Simpson, Gures, Reihman) – 2022
  • Ivy League Meet Record: 3:05.51, Harvard (Grant, Simpson, Gures, Holmquist) – 2023
  • Pool Record: 3:05.72, Harvard – 2022
  • NCAA: 3:04.96
  • 2025 Ivy League Champion: Cornell, 3:06.39

Podium:

  1. Yale (Jake Wang, Charlie Egeland, Nicholas Finch, Deny Nankov), 3:04.65 *MEET AND POOL RECORD*
  2. Harvard (Adriano Arioti, Joshua Chen, David Schmitt, Sonny Wang), 3:05.83
  3. Columbia (Isaac Beers, Joshua Corn, Adam Wu, Zion James), 3:07.92
  4. Princeton, 3:08.10
  5. Cornell, 3:08.69
  6. Penn, 3:09.60
  7. Brown, 3:11.20
  8. Dartmouth, 3:12.15

Yale broke their second relay meet record of the meet on Friday, this time with a 3:04.65 in the 4×100 medley. That also erased Harvard’s pool record of 3:05.72 from 2022.

The Bulldogs swapped out their sprint backstroker (Lucius Brown) and breaststroker (Alexander Hazlett) from their 200 medley relay record-breaking performance, but kept Nicholas Finch (butterfly) and Deny Nankov (freestyle).

Jake Wang, Charlie Egeland, Finch, and Nankov came in just under the NCAA cut, giving the Bulldogs 3 relays for the 2026 Division I Championships thus far.

Wang was out in 46.11, which would have been the 4th-fastest time in the 100 back final. Egeland split 51.64 on the breaststroke, after placing 2nd in the individual event earlier in the evening with 52.18. Finch, who broke the Ivy League record in the 100 fly to start tonight’s session, split 44.13 on the fly. Nankov brought it home in 42.77. The Yale quartet was nearly a full second faster than Harvard’s 2023 relay of Gunner Grant, Jared Simpson, Umit Gures, and Marcus Holmquist.

  Harvard 2023 Ivies Yale 2026 Ivies
Backstroke Gunner Grant 46.57 Jake Wang 46.11
Breaststroke Jared Simpson 52.55 Charlie Egeland 51.64
Butterfly Umit Gures 44.49 Nicholas Finch 44.13
Freestyle Marcus Holmquist 41.90 Deny Nankov 42.77
    3:05.51   3:04.65

 

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Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

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