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.
This would be a cool way to cap off Nationals.
Hmm… Maybe we can give it a shot at master’s nationals.
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.
Seems like a lot of swimmers would have to swim 23s & 24s to balance out swimmers who swam 30+…hmmm
They will be hard to beat in Tokyo.
Dressel can easily beat it doing a 5000 by himself.
No one cares. Not the point
Highly unlikely
Y’all terrible at sarcasm
US will shatter this
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.”
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!
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.
And?
Yeah, really missing the point there champ.
Team Egypt DSQ Early Takeoff Swimmer #82
Splits? Were they tapered?
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