FINA Decides to Ratify All 8 Indiana World Record Setting Relays

After initially only accepting a handful, FINA has opted to accept all 8 of Indiana’s relays World Record setting relays set in September: just a few days after FINA first began accepting World Records in those events. Only two of the records were initially accepted.

Of course, these records (many of which have since been broken) will be credited to the United States, rather than Indiana, but this will be quite a coup for head coach Ray Looze to put on his coaching resume.

Initially, there was a question of whether swims would have to break a threshold before being considered as the initial FINA recognized World Records in that event, but today Indiana announced that instead they were just going to accept all of the swims. Of course, none of the swimmers, as they’re all NCAA athletes, will receive any World Record bonuses for their swims, which probably didn’t hurt in this decision.

The relay records as ratified by FINA are below. Though FINA is a bit lagged on their record recognition, the two that remain are the long course mixed records in the 400 mixed freestyle and medley relays, as far as we can tell:

400 Meter Mixed Medley Relay*

Allie Day, Mike Hurley, Tanner Kurz, Haley Lips – 4:13.47

200 Meter Medley Relay

Grace Padget, Heather Hayes, Bailey Pressey, Claudia Di Capua – 2:04.34

400 Meter Mixed Freestyle Relay*

Lindsay Vrooman, Kait Flederbach, Steve Schmuhl, Jackson Miller – 3:45.38

200 Meter Freestyle Relay

Cody Miller, James Wells, Matt Gerth, Philip Butler – 1:36.81

200 Meter Mixed Medley Relay

James Wells, Cody Miller, Gia Dalesandro, Olivia Barker – 1:49.87

200 Meter Mixed Freestyle Relay

Bailey Pressey, Stephanie Armstrong, Tanner Kurz, Cody Miller – 1:41.16

200 Meter Medley Relay

Curtis Goss, Blaine Nichols, Kyle Johnson, Tanner Kurz – 1:50.07

200 Meter Freestyle Relay

Stephanie Marchuk, Claudia Di Capua, Audrey Scott, Grace Padget – 1:54.97