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While competing on day 2 of the final FINA World Cup stop in Kazan, multi-Olympic medalist Chalmers blasted a time of 44.84 to not only stand atop the podium here but also stand atop the list of fastest men ever in the event.
Splits:
21.30
23.44
44.84
His time overtakes the previous storied World Record of 44.94, a time Frenchman Amaury Leveaux put on the books over a decade ago in 2008. Since then, many have come close, including Russia’s Vlad Morozov who hit 44.95 in 2018 but the record stood tall…until tonight.
Race video footage courtesy of FinaTV. See Full race video here:
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Great interview Coleman. King Kyle is definitely improving. Great to see & hear his confidence building, & then the WR is icing on the cake for him. He is also a great sport – recall seeing him lift CD’s arm up in 2019 at the WC’s after that 46.96 100 free.
I doubt I could run 100m that fast!
His swimming the 50 SCM fly has really helped his underwaters. Probably more value to him in doing that than focusing on the 200 free as a secondary event. Because in the end, he wants another Olympic 100 free gold and he wants it beating Dressel. Recall that Dressel added the 100 SCY fly later in college and it dramatically improved his underwaters, especially the breakout, on his sprint frees.
There’s an argument to be made for training all 4 strokes if you’re a freestyle swimmer
Honest, but not very important Q here for records nerds. Are any records not historic (not recorded) if they do not last long? Say they only last one heat or maybe prelims to finals?
In general they can last a heat. They certainly have gone down in consecutive semifinals before. The interesting bit comes in when it’s a new event, and for a meet record. Like there was no official Olympic record for the womens 1500 until the end of the prelims session in Tokyo. As in the winner of the first heat never held the Olympic record. But in other events I believe you could.
Yes I think that’s only for a brand new event though, to prevent a ridiculously slow Olympic record being set in a weak heat. For any event that isn’t brand new, the record can be officially broken every heat and is recorded as an official record.
they’re recorded each time.
m100 fly 2003 worlds – the world record (and by extension the world championship record) was broken in both semis, then again in the final. the world record progression shows 3 different records from this event in barcelona.
w100 back 2020 olympics – the olympic record was broken 5 times total, 3 of which were in consecutive heats. the fina results for heats 4, 5, 6, the semi finals and the finals all recognise the winning times for those fields as olympic records:
https://www.fina.org/competitions/5/olympic-games-tokyo-2020/results?disciplines=SW&event=5454171a-ab30-488f-869b-df3f2336c011&unit=heat-4
Lookin like he had some fresh front end speed