Daiya Seto Secures 4IM 4-Peat With Gold In Hangzhou

2018 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • Tuesday, December 11th – Sunday, December 16th
  • Hangzhou, China
  • Tennis Centre, Hangzhou Olympic & International Expo Center
  • Live Results (Omega)

After upsetting South African Chad Le Clos in the men’s 200m butterfly, earning a new World Record in the process, Japanese powerhouse Daiya Seto made more history in Hangzhou at these Short Course World Championships. Winning tonight’s 400m IM in a monster time of 3:56.43, Seto earned his 4th consecutive world title in the event.

Seto established himself as the clear leader after this morning’s prelims, taking the top seed in a comfortable 4:00.50, over 4 seconds ahead of next-closest competitor Brandonn Almeida of Brazil.

This evening, however, Seto turned on all the engines to fire off his winning effort of 3:56.43, a time just .10 outside his own personal best and within a second of American Ryan Lochte’s WR of 3:55.50 that’s been on the books for 8 years.

Of his 4-peat performance, Seto said, “I am happy to be able to win four consecutive games, but I was afraid that I was aiming for a world record, which I regret. I am going to train with the focus on the challenge of the endurance.” (Google Translate)

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Captain Ahab
5 years ago

Holy issshh!!!! That’s moving out! That converts to a 3:52 50 long course meters. Phelps Long Course 50 meter 400IM might be in jeopardy 2019 summer.

WV Swimmer
Reply to  Captain Ahab
5 years ago

the swim swam SCM to LCM is basically broken….a conversion rate used in NCAA is 0.906 for all races except 400/800/1500 frees.

Convert time to seconds -> multiply by 0.906 -> yards time in seconds

Samesame
Reply to  Captain Ahab
5 years ago

It actually was 3.56 not 3.46. There is a typo.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  Captain Ahab
5 years ago

yep

Scribble
5 years ago

The Japanese swimmers are on pace for a good showing in Tokyo. Kalisz will have some tough competition.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  Scribble
5 years ago

Kalisz has been put on notice awhile ago – so he knows – which bodes well for us fans

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