Egyptian Team Shatters 100×50 Freestyle Relay World Record

A team of swimmers from Egypt has broken the Guiness World Record in the 100x50m freestyle relay. 

The attempt, which was held in coordination with the Egyptian Swimming Federation, was sponsored by Spoctane Egypt. 

The team finished in a final time of 42 minutes and 12.15 seconds, slicing just over a minute off of the previous world record of 43 minutes and 32.36 seconds that was set by the UK’s Mind Over Matter Team in 2019. That comes out to about 25.32 seconds per 50.

The relay team consisted of 100 swimmers from the region, ranging in age from 15 to 62 years old, including a mix of National, African, Arab, World, Olympic and Paralympic Champions.

 

Members of the Egyptian 100×50 Freestyle Relay Celebrate Their World Record. Via Mazen Elkamash


Notably, the event featured both Olympic and Paralympic swimmers competing with one another, differing from the previous record attempts that included no Paralympic athletes. 

Notable names that participated in the record-breaking relay included Egyptian record holder Samiha Mohsen, world championships finalist Ahmed Bahgat, Paralympic world championship medalist Aya Abbas, and Olympian Reem Kassem

62-year-old Nabil Ibrahim was the oldest member of the team, swimming second-to-last in the order. Ibrahim is a reigning world champion in the master’s 50m freestyle. 

Abbas, a Paralympian, led off the relay, swimming the first of 100 legs. Meanwhile, world championship finalist and African record holder Omar Elewa anchored the team. 

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Xman
3 years ago

This would be a cool way to cap off Nationals.

Hmm… Maybe we can give it a shot at master’s nationals.

woods
3 years ago

If this were an Olympic event, we would have had a swim off between Daniel Diehl (wave 2) and Michael Arnold (wave 1) at 23.24 for the final USA team spot.

You Don’t Say
3 years ago

Seems like a lot of swimmers would have to swim 23s & 24s to balance out swimmers who swam 30+…hmmm

Ger
3 years ago

They will be hard to beat in Tokyo.

Olympian
3 years ago

Dressel can easily beat it doing a 5000 by himself.

Samesame
Reply to  Olympian
3 years ago

No one cares. Not the point

Swimmerfromjapananduk
Reply to  Olympian
3 years ago

Highly unlikely

Olympian
Reply to  Swimmerfromjapananduk
3 years ago

Y’all terrible at sarcasm

Eric the Eel > Michael Phelps
3 years ago

US will shatter this

Admin
Reply to  Eric the Eel > Michael Phelps
3 years ago

The challenge in these relays is less about “who is capable of a faster relay” and more about “getting them all in the same place at the same time to willingly do it.”

There's no doubt that he's tightening up
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

It’s also not at all about putting together the 100 quickest guys.

Having Paralympians, 62 year olds, not just the men but the women and the children too…

A lovely effort from Egypt!

sven

yeah the thing that jumps out at me is that this will very quickly become a “let’s optimize the heck out of this” thing and there will be a lot of chest thumping over beating an Egyptian team that clearly had things in mind other than time.

On the other hand, if optimizing is inevitable… seems to me that the quickest 100×50 that the US could put together would actually involve only the top 20 or so guys. I’ve gotta think that the best 20 male sprinters in the US each doing 5×50 on roughly 7min rest would actually be faster than including the next 80 guys.

Swimmerfromjapananduk
Reply to  Eric the Eel > Michael Phelps
3 years ago

And?

FraserThorpe
Reply to  Eric the Eel > Michael Phelps
3 years ago

Yeah, really missing the point there champ.

woods
3 years ago

Team Egypt DSQ Early Takeoff Swimmer #82

Khachaturian
3 years ago

Splits? Were they tapered?

moddiddle
Reply to  Khachaturian
3 years ago

Was this suited?

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