2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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Canada’s Tristan Jankovics set a new national record in the 400 IM during the preliminary heats at the Short Course World Championships this morning, throwing down a time of 4:02.01.
Jankovics’ broke the 21-year-old record by .71, besting the previous standard of 4:02.72 set by Brian Johns back in 2003.
At just 20 years old, the Canadian record was older than Jankovics himself.
JANKOVICS’ SPLITS
| Fly | Back | Breast | Free |
| 55.15 | 1:01.19 | 1:09.15 | 56.52 |
The last time Jankovics raced the 400 IM in SCM was back in 2021, when he recorded a time of 4:38.66.
Jankovics is the #3 seed heading into the finals of the 400 IM, behind Great Britain’s Max Litchfield (4:00.37) and neutral athlete Ilia Borodin (4:01.28).
Earlier in the competition, Jankovics took on the 200 IM, where he placed 10th in the prelims with a personal best time of 1:53.81 and narrowly missed qualifying for the final.
John’s record was set at the (then-named) CIAU Championships (now USports) in Victoria BC. I will always remember that record because I happened to be standing right behind the blocks when it happened as I was leading off a relay next in his lane. When the announcers and the crowd realized he had a chance to break it, people went wild and the cheering and energy went off the charts. If I recall correctly, Canada hasn’t broken any world records in a while so everyone got behind him.
I had an awesome swim in my relay right afterwards!
Congrats to Tristan – excited to see what he can do with this event for Canada.
Great story to highlight that Johns’ Canadian record was indeed a wr at the time, knocking 1.5s off the prior. Lasted for 2.5y until Laszlo Cash came around and eventually brought it down to 357.
I wonder whether any other WRs from Canadian university championships before or since.
I feel like maybe Chris Renaud’s 50 back at CIs in the mid-90s was maybe a WR at the time? I’m sure a Canadian with a longer swimming memory than mine can let me know if that’s correct.
I just remembered that Wikipedia exists and yes, Renaud broke the 50 Back WR at CIs in 1997.
He did! 1997. CIAU at the time.
Such an awesome story!
Let’s hope Tristan has a great swim in the final and betters his own record.
Brian John’s former Canadian record was the world record back in 2003, an accolade he held for over two and a half years before losing it to Lazslo Cseh!