As SwimSwam readers, you’re all probably familiar with our TYR rankings of the world’s top times in a given year. (If not, get on over to those rankings linked right here and see what we have for you!). We’ve been thinking about ways to collect and display information that you all as readers would want to have access to– and the current project we’re working on is a full rankings system for the top relay performers in history.
Everyone loves relays. Besides major summer championships like Worlds and the Olympics, relays at NCAAs are some of the most exciting races to watch– probably because it’s short course yards, and you get to see all sorts of speed and relay starts going on in the small pool. So, we’re collecting data on the fastest relay performers ever, and we’re starting with SCY rankings (which essentially means NCAA rankings).
Here’s what we have published so far:
- Women’s 50y breast relay top performers
- Women’s 50y fly relay top performers
- Men’s 50y fly relay top performers
We’ll keep working on getting the rest of these done in time for the 2017-18 NCAA season. As we upload them, you can find them where our TYR Rankings are (under the More tab at the top of the site). Just choose ‘USA SCY Rankings’ and then ‘All-Time Performers.’
In the mean time, we need any help that you all, as readers and swim fans, can offer. Compiling these rankings means digging through conference and NCAA meets, and hoping to find big time trial swims, winter invite swims, and other random occurrences where very fast splits could’ve happened. These rankings are highly unofficial, and there will definitely be swims that fall through the cracks– so please feel free to let us know in the comments, or email me ([email protected]) if there are swims that we didn’t add to the list!
Josh Quallen (Louisville) went an official 19.91 at the 2017 ACC Championships
Good find, thanks!
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I love this idea! Would be great to see LCM too
46.06
#goat
Jorie Caneta was a 26.40 at the 2017 NCAAs in finals.
This list is awesome!
Thanks!
LOVE
Like it but why are the teams set for their nation? should be a club or college team
The issue there is that the colleges or clubs don’t all have codes that fit into the column and if we tried to do that, we could end up having to use the same abbreviation for different clubs. Also, there may be some high schoolers or swimmers from other countries who don’t represent a college (training as post grads or coming in just to compete at some high level meets like the pro swim series) that make their way onto top times lists down the line and we can’t lump them into the “college” category.
Country and college/club would be cool but this is great regardless
We’ll work on it!
Thanks for posting! One addition to the 50 Fly list is Sabir Muhammed’s 19.74 split from the 1998 NCAA Championships.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~menswim/97-98/meets/ncaa/7f.txt
Holy hell. I didn’t know swimmers were allowed to be that fast before the 21st century. I’ll add that in, thanks!
Haha, Sabir was the first guy to break :20 in the 50 fly on a relay to my knowledge.
Wow how did that happen! Insanely fast for 1998