2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
- Roster Index
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Pick’em
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Prelims Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
- Finals Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
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.