Race Video: Chase Kalisz is Unmatched En Route to 4:11 400 IM

With Lochte out of the 400 IM, Phelps out of the 400 IM, and Clary seeming more interested in focusing on the 200 backstroke, Chase Kalisz has inherited the long-anticipated throne as the king of the American 400 IM. He showed off a little bit on Saturday with a 4:11.71 to win the men’s 400 IM A-Final.

He really man-handled the race with his performance, cruising through a competitive fly leg before overtaking a lead on the backstroke that he wouldn’t give back. This is the new Kalisz – he’s no longer just a back-half IM’er, he’s become incredibly good on his front-half too, turning his weaknesses into strengths, and he will give Japan’s Kosuke Hagino and Daiya Seto a whale of a battle for gold at Pan Pacs (though, those two have looked unbelievably-good this year as well; especially Seto, who was a 4:10.2 at the Japan Open on Thursday.

Kalisz, always looking for more like most great swimmers, was a tenth faster than that with which he won the U.S. National Championship last summer, but still said he had a faster number in his mind.

Below, Ous Mellouli looks almost as dominant relative to the B-Final, which he won in 4:19.13.

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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