2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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Men’s 50 free- Semifinal
World Record: 20.08 — Jordan Crooks, CAY (2024)- World Junior Record: 20.98 — Simons Kenzo, NED (2019)
World Championship Record: 20.08 — Jordan Crooks, CAY (2024)- 2022 World Champion: Jordan Crooks, CAY — 20.46
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Jordan Crooks (CAY)- 19.90 **NEW WORLD RECORD**
- Jack Alexy (USA)- 20.51
- Guilherme Santos (BRA)- 20.59
- Nyls Korstanje (NED)- 20.63
- Egor Kornev (NAB)- 20.75
- Maxime Grousset (FRA)- 20.78
- Chris Guiliano (USA)- 20.79
- Yuchan Ji (KOR)- 20.80
After breaking the World Record in prelims, Jordan Crooks of the Cayman Islands became the first man to break 20-seconds in the 50 freestyle swimming a 19.90 during semifinals. He will have another chance tomorrow night to break the World Record again.
Crooks entered the meet with a lifetime best of a 20.31 from 2022. He then swam a 20.08 in prelims, faster than Caeleb Dressel’s previous World Record of a 20.16 that Dressel swam at the ISL Final.
Crooks’s swim tonight earned him another $25,000 World Record bonus. He described his race tonight being “sharper” than his swim in the morning, putting emphasis on the details.
All-Time Top 5 Performers
- Jordan Crooks, 19.90
- Caeleb Dressel, 20.16
- Ben Proud, 20.18
- Roland Schoeman, 20.30
- Vladimir Morozov, 20.31
Crooks will look to make another podium this week after already winning bronze in the 100 free. He swam a personal best in semifinals of the 100 free with a 45.22 before swimming a 45.48 in the final.
This wasn’t meant to happen this century
Missing Manaudou from the performers list
With all due respect, he still needs to win the final. Maybe he should just focus on that since he has already broken the WR
CARIFTA nation stand up. Quite the accomplishment Mr Crooks!
Might be the favorite for the 50 in LA if he can translate this form to the big pool
I seem to remember one PARTICULARLY ADAMANT commenter stating that neither Crooks nor Liendo had a bat’s chance in hell of breaking 17.63. Will they please stand up and apologize now?
His breakouts are crazy
Can anyone break down how to emulate this?
Step 1 of 1: Be the fastest underwater sprint dolphin kicker ever.
Invredible swim of Crooks. Under 20 seconds. Wouah. In your all-time ranking, you forgot Florent Manaudou from France. He swam 20.26 and won the gold medal (former WR) at the 2014 World Championships in Doha.