Pietro Ubertalli Ties Dean Farris’ 200 Backstroke Ivy League Record

2025 Ivy League Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships

• Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Saturday, March 1
• Location: Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Providence, RI
• Defending Champions: Harvard men (7x)
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Pietro Ubertalli tied the Ivy League 200 backstroke record held by Dean Farris on Day 4, marking the first of Farris’ Ivy League records he no longer holds outright. It marked a dominant performance for the Cornell junior, as he won the race by more than a second and a half to complete the backstroke sweep at Ivies.

Men’s 200 Yard Backstroke – Finals

• Ivy Meet Record: 1:38.99, Dean Farris, Harvard (2018)
• Pool Record: 1:40.52, Pietro Ubertalli, Cornell (2025)
• NCAA A: 1:38.80
• NCAA B: 1:44.03
• 2024 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.62
• 2024 Ivy League Champion: Gunner Grant, Harvard – 1:40.68

Podium:

1. Pietro Ubertalli, Cornell – 1:38.99
2. Anthony Rincon, Harvard – 1:40.60
3. Adriano Arioti, Harvard – 1:42.09
4. Gabe Anagnoson, Cornell – 1:43.14
5. Parker Lenoce, Princeton – 1:43.18
6. Daniel Gallagher, Penn – 1:43.57
7. Tyler Hong, Princeton – 1:44.01
8. Blake Conway, Cornell – 1:45.67

Not only did they swim the exact same time, but Ubertalli and Farris also split the race almost identically, never more than 11-hundredths apart.

This was the second individual title for Ubertalli after he won the 100 backstroke on Day 3, to go along with a third place finish in the 200 IM. He also played a key role in Cornell’s victory in the 400 medley relay, swimming the only leadoff leg under 46 as they won by just four hundredths. This was the first relay win since 2007 for the Big Red.

Ubertalli broke the pool record that he’d set in prelims, and over the course of the day lowered it by over two seconds. He smashed his PB which previously stood at 1:40.94 that he swam at December’s Zippy Invitational, and set a new Cornell school record. The big difference came in the second 100 for him, where he was he was a full 1.5 seconds quicker than on his PB prior to today.  This swim should also qualify him for NCAAs for the first time, and as it currently ranks 11th nationally would put him in line to score points there. This would make him only the second man from Cornell to earn all-American honours since 2006, the other being Alex Evdokimov in 2018.