2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay- Final
Top 8 Relays:
- Neutral Athletes B- 3:30.47
- United States- 3:30.55
- Canada- 3:31.97
- Australia- 3:32.83
- Great Britain- 3:35.46
- Spain- 3:35.52
- Italy- 3:35.54
- Netherlands- 3:36.04
Regan Smith led off the US mixed medley relay in a time of a 54.19, a time that is faster than her own World Record of a 54.27 in the SCM 100 backstroke. Her swim from tonight will not count though as it was done leading off a mixed medley relay.
Split Comparison
| Relay Lead Off (Not Official WR) | WR Time (World Cup) | |
| 50 | 26.16 | 26.06 |
| 100 | 54.19 (28.03) | 54.27 (28.21) |
Smith was out a tenth slower today but came back fast enough to be under her official record.
Smith holds all three SCM backstroke World Records after swimming her 54.27 in the 100 and a 1:58.83 in the 200 at the World Cup stop this fall in Singapore. She added the 50 record to her resume this week in Budapest posting a 25.23, breaking the old record of a 25.25 held by Canada’s Maggie MacNeil.
Smith was the fastest of the women in the 100 back lead off split by over a second as Canada’s Ingrid Wilm was the 2nd fastest of the five women leading off with a 55.82.
The US opted for the F-F-M-M lineup and finished 2nd. The team was 8th at the final exchange but Jack Alexy charged on the free leg to just miss gold by 0.08 seconds.
The end of year rankings for the women this year will be fascinating.
Regan has swept the SCM by world records and presumably the championships, and she took back the LCM 100 WR. But she fell to Kaylee in both events at Paris.
G2 meanwhile is putting up otherworldly
WRs in SCM, as well as the LCM 100 fly, but couldn’t get the job done in Paris, while Sjostrom took gold in the two blue ribband events at her 5th Olympics.
The comment section will be 🔥 as will the SS ranking committee debates…
Just as a reminder, the rankings are not for the performance of the women this year but rather the predicted performance of them next year
Hooray for Regan! That women’s 4×100 medley relay should set a WR that’ll last for a long time.
Interesting lineup FFMM. why not
Casas
King
Walsh
Alexy
WRs don’t count .. congrats to Smith on a great swim.
the time not counting as a world record doesn’t make any sense
Probably has something to do with having an advantage by pacing off of male competitors during the race whereas a traditional race would be female only.
And yet it’s legal to have a pacer in the lane beside you
Advantage, or disadvantage, because of the wake and turbulence?
Pacing and drafting.
Hope she leads of the MR with a 53.99!
Id be surprised since she has the 200 back right before the medley relay tomorrow. But you never know.
I hope Regan Smith still has gas left in the tank:
Day 6 – heats/final of the W 200 BK
She needs to go full GW for us!
Summer will eat her up.
Smith is the world record holder .
She’s gonna be fine like even if she’s slow , she has like 54 mid in her to leadoff the relay and you have King, Walsh and Douglass to break the world record.
I think between 54.5 to 54.2 is gonna be fine after her 200 back and then with King , Walsh , Douglass will be more than enough to smash the world record.