2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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MEN’S 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – Final
World Record: 6:44.12 – USA (2022)World Championship Record: 6:44.12 – USA (2022)- 2022 World Champion: USA – 6:44.12
Final:
- United States (Hobson, Foster, Casas, Smith) — 6:40.51 ***WORLD RECORD***
- Australia (Giuliani, Sommerville, Turner, Winnington) — 6:45.54
- Italy (Megli, Frigo, D’Ambrosio, Razzetti) — 6:47.51
- Germany — 6:50.43
- Spain — 6:52.74
- Neutral Athletes ‘B’ — 6:53.89
- China — 6:54.56
- Japan — 7:07.90
The US men broke their own World Record in the men’s 4×200 free relay swimming to a 6:40.51. That broke their previous World and Championship records of a 6:44.12 that they set at the 2022 edition of SC Worlds. Luke Hobson also led the relay off in an individual World Record.
Split Comparison
| 2024 | 2022 | |||
| 1st Leg | Luke Hobson | 1:38.91 | Kieran Smith | 1:41.04 |
| 2nd Leg | Carson Foster | 1:40.77 | Carson Foster | 1:40.48 |
| 3rd Leg | Shaine Casas | 1:40.34 | Trenton Julian | 1:41.44 |
| 4th Leg | Kieran Smith | 1:40.49 | Drew Kibler | 1:41.16 |
The relay was faster overall today. Hobson led off in a World Record 1:38.91. After three of the splits were over 1:41 in 2022, none were tonight. Shaine Casas notably had a 1:40.34 split on the 3rd leg today. Carson Foster had the fastest split of a 1:40.48 in 2022 but the slowest split today in a 1:40.77. Overall, the US had 4 of the 5 fastest swims of the race.
Tonight’s lineup was almost the exact lineup the US used to win silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Hobson, Foster, and Smith all swam in their respective slots while Casas swam the 3rd leg in place of Drew Kibler.
If Texas hypothetically seceded from the Union and they replaced Kieran Smith with Drew Kibler, the Peoples Republic of Texas would beat the United States
Swimmers are COOKIN‼️WorldAquatics about to go bankrupt with all these pay outs😮💨
the rough SCY equivalent of this is probably like a 1:28 low for Hobson and then trio of 1:29 mids from the other three. So like around a 5:57 time lol, more than 6 seconds faster than Texas’ American record from 2023 NCAAs
Not bad for LCM this time of year. Expecting 6:33 at LA 2028
But this isn’t LCM
Why are so many records being broken?
Because normally USA sends tier 2 athletes to SC Worlds and this time they didn’t.
They sent their full A team for this relay in 2022.
Because people are swimming fast.
Hot take – this is more impressive than the long course WR
🤘🤘🤘🐊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Shaine turning back into a multi-event threat is one of my favorite parts of this meet. Really wish we could’ve seen him in the 100 free/fly/back or 200 back
Still remember in February when he split 1:48 on the 4×200 at Worlds