Stanford vs. Arizona State
- Jan. 19, 2024
- Avery Aquatic Center
- Stanford, California
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results on MeetMobile: “Arizona State @ Stanford”
The top-ranked Arizona State men are coming for the last two NCAA records remaining on the books by Texas swimmers.
ASU sophomore Zalan Sarkany began Friday’s dual meet at Stanford by blasting a personal-best 8:38.13 in the 1000-yard freestyle, just about four seconds shy of former Longhorns standout Clark Smith’s NCAA record (8:33.93) from 2015. It’s just the second collegiate meet of the season for Sarkany, who trained back home in Hungary this past fall.
Sarkany shaved more than eight seconds off his previous-best 8:46.42 from earlier this month, which also stood as the school record until today. The 20-year-old distance specialist has dropped more than 11 seconds off his best 1000 free time before this season. Last year as a freshman, he placed 8th at NCAAs in the 1650 free (14:42.80).
Sarkany wasn’t the only Sun Devil who scared an NCAA record at Stanford. ASU freshman Ilya Kharun clocked a winning time of 1:37.83 in the 200 butterfly, dipping into sub-1:38 territory for the first time in his career. The versatile Canadian is now within half a second of former Texas standout Jack Conger’s NCAA record (1:37.35) from 2017.
Kharun sliced almost two-tenths off his previous-best 1:38.11 from November, which already would have won the NCAA title last spring over NC State’s Aiden Hayes (1:38.79). He has dropped more than three seconds throughout the course of this season as his best time before arriving in Tempe was a 1:40.89 from last February.
In a potential preview of the NCAA title matchup this spring, Stanford junior Andrei Minakov earned a runner-up finish behind Kharun with a personal-best time of 1:38.63. That’s a huge lifetime best for Minakov, knocking almost four seconds off his previous-best 1:42.57 from last January. He led through the first three turns (1:12.39 vs. 1:12.86) before Kharun blazed home with a 25.07 split on his last 50 yards compared to Minakov’s 26.24.
Kharun also contributed a blistering 19.35 fly split on the Sun Devils’ 200 medley relay that triumphed with a time of 1:22.24. Kharun’s split was just off his season-best 19.24 from the NC State Invitational in November and faster than every split at NCAAs last year except for NC State’s Nyls Korstanje and Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks.
Stay tuned for a full dual meet recap coming soon.
1:33.9 was 5th place in the 200 free, and 1:38.6 was 2nd in the 200 fly in a dual meet in January. What??????
If Marchand swims 100 breast at conference, and also leads off the 800 free relay at NCAAs then it’s not crazy to envision a world where soon ASU and Florida hold every individual event NCAA record.
Just dual meet things…
Who would win in a hypothetical dual meet between this ASU team and 2017 Texas?
obviously this ASU team due to swimflation, but relative to eras, I still think 2017 Texas was further ahead of their collegiate competition than ASU is this year
Conger, Licon, Schooling, Townley, Roberts, Ringgold, Clark Smith, Shebat, I mean….
ASU
Damn 😲🔥
Dreary weather. At Cal, it is raining…not sure about Stanford. I can’t tell.
I am just as impressed by Stanford men. They are swimming very well too!
Cold and sprinkles at times. Thought Stanford was also impressive.
What 1:37 from Kharun and 1:38 from Minakov?!?
Are they aware that this is a Dual meet?
Minakov 44.17 and Kharun 44.72 in the 100 fly. Wild times for January
Stanford men won the 4free relay too! Minakov beat Kulow even though he went in a bit after…his walls were just better than Kulow’s.
Swum after the epic 200 fly, in the rain
The two of them were obviously gunning for each other which is great! Epically in a dual meet! Great to see A cut times in a dual meet!
Made my eyes almost pop out of my skull
Both untapered also!
You sure?
what the fffffffff