Fastest 100 Fly A Final Ever Leads to Record 28 Sub-45 Performances This Season

2021 NCAA MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• When: Wednesday, March 24 – Saturday, March 27, 2021
• Where: Greensboro Aquatic Center / Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
• Prelims 10 AM/ Finals 6 PM (Local Time)
• Short course yards (SCY) format
• Defending champion: Cal (1x) – 2019 results
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Tonight’s A final of the 100 fly at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships was the fastest of all-time. No, it didn’t have Caeleb Dressel shattering the NCAA Record, however, it was the first time ever that all 8 swimmers in the A final swam under 45 seconds. They cut it close, as UGA’s Luca Urlando touched in 44.99 for 8th, but nonetheless, all 8 clocked a 44-point-something tonight.

Here are the results from tonight’s A final:

1. Ryan Hoffer (Cal)- 44.25
2. Nicolas Albiero (Louisville)- 44.32
3. Camden Murphy (Georgia)- 44.42
4. Alvin Jiang (Texas) – 44.50
5. Danny Kovac (Missouri) – 44.66
6. Antani Ivanov (Virginia Tech) – 44.67
7. Eric Friese (Florida) – 44.79
8. Luca Urlando (Georgia) – 44.99

The speed of tonight’s A final marks another record as well. There have now been 28 sub-45 second performances in the men’s 100 fly during the 2020-2021 NCAA season. This shatters the previous single-season record of sub-45 performances, and marks the first time there have been 20+ of such swims in a season.

Prior to today’s swims, the most sub-45 100 fly performances we’d seen in an NCAA season was 16, which came in the 2016-2017 season. In fact this is only the 3rd season ever with double-digit sub-45 performances ever. There were 16 in the 2016-2017 season, and 13 the following season, 2017-2018.

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2020-2021 Sub-45 Second 100 Yard Butterflies:

The swimmer who broke 45 most often this season was Georgia senior Camden Murphy, who did so 5 times over the course of the 2020-2021 season. Texas Alvin Jiang was 2nd in that category, having swum 4 sub-45s this year. Interestingly, Ryan Hoffer, the NCAA Champion from tonight, holds the top 2 times in the NCAA this season, but has also only been under 45 twice this season, both of which were swum today. Another interesting note, Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas has been under 45 3 times this season, but decided not to swim the 100 fly at NCAAs, swimming the 100 back instead (which he won).

• Camden Murphy (UGA) – 5
• Alvin Jiang (Texas) – 4
• Shaine Casas (Texas A&M) – 3
• Nicolas Albiero (Louisville) – 3
• Ryan Hoffer (Cal) – 2
• Youssef Ramadan (Virginia Tech) – 2
• Antani Ivanov (Virginia Tech) – 2
• Danny Kovac (Missouri) – 2
• Luca Urlando (UGA) – 2
• Eric Friese (Florida) – 2
• Tomer Frankel (IU) – 1