2021 NCAA MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Wednesday, March 24 – Saturday, March 27, 2021
- Where: Greensboro Aquatic Center / Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Prelims 10 AM/ Finals 6 PM (Local Time)
- Short course yards (SCY) format
- Defending champion: Cal (1x) – 2019 results
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- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
In this morning’s prelims of the 100 butterfly, Cal senior Ryan Hoffer had a huge swim, posting a new personal best to become the 5th fastest performer in history, while top seed Youssef Ramadan of Virginia Tech was disqualified for a false start.
Hoffer, who already won the 50 freestyle in the 10th fastest performance in history, posted a time of 44.24 during this morning’s heats, chopping over a half second off of his best time of 44.93 that he set at the 2018 NCAA Championships.
At that edition of the Championships, Hoffer finished 6th overall in the event. He later finished 7th at the 2019 Championships.
With his performance, Hoffer is now the 5th fastest performer in history, surpassing the aforementioned Ramadan and Marius Kusch.
Fastest 100 Yard Butterfliers in History:
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- Caeleb Dressel – 42.80
- Joseph Schooling – 43.75
- Tom Shields – 43.84
- Austin Staab – 44.18
- Ryan Hoffer – 44.24
- (TIE) Youssef Ramadan/Marius Kusch – 44.32
- Jack Conger – 44.35
- Vini Lanza – 44.37
- Coleman Stewart – 44.46
Ramadan, a freshman from VT, came into the meet as the top seed this morning, had a poor performance in the final heat, adding over a second onto his best time before being disqualified for a false start. Even without a false start, Ramdan’s touch time of 45.54 would’ve left him 13th and out of the A-final as it took at least a 45.10 to make the top 8 this morning.
Ramadan’s time of 44.32 from the ACC Championships is the fastest time in history by an NCAA freshman.
imo “twitch start” dqs are stupid, ESPECIALLY when there are reaction pads on the blocks. if you’re still on the blocks, why does it matter? and, it’s not like youre specifically trying to predict when the horn goes off; youre really wound up, really to blast off the block. off course something is gonna twitch, if you have to hold it for long enough. and thats another thing- ive only seen/had twitch dqs when the starter takes forever. not saying it’s the starters fault… but they aren’t helping 🤷♂️
so im sorry to hear that for ramadan and i really hope he is able to bounce back!
The false start by Ramadan actually caused him to be the last off the blocks, and a good bit behind after the first underwater. It was a pretty blatant false start, too, so I’m sure he was thinking about that during his race. Quite the bummer, would’ve been fun to see someone other than Cal/Texas/Florida race for a title. A major learning experience for the upcoming freshman, to say the least.
Can someone explain how a false start happens with a .66 reaction time?
If you twitch on the block, stop, and then go, that’s still considered a ‘false start.’
The “reaction time” clock doesn’t start until the whistle is blown. So in theory one could make an effort to hold oneself up and still go a normal RT.
Gotta think the false start played into adding time. It was a pretty bad one (although he was held forever so don’t blame him), i’m sure he was thinking about it during the race
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Does anyone know what Ramadan would’ve touched in if he wasn’t DQd?
It’s in the article. 45.54.
Ramadan’s time was slow bc he knew he had false started, imo. It was a really obvious false start. Heartbreaking for him.
Maybe.
But he was out in front of the field and faded pretty hard. So I guess he decided around 70 yards that he had false started?
That’s not how these things work.
Hoffer swims very little – all underwaters. If Cal wants to separate swimming from diving, Texas should ask to ban underwaters pass 5 yards/flags. How’s that as another stupid idea?
Who are you yelling at?