2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
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On France’s 4×100 men’s medley relay at the 2023 World Championships, Maxime Grousset split a massive 49.27 butterfly leg to bring his team from fourth to second. Although France got passed by China and Australia on the freestyle leg and didn’t get on the podium, Grousset recorded the second-fastest 100 fly relay split ever.
Grousset’s split was the eighth sub-50 100 fly split in history. The only person who has ever been faster than him on a relay is Caeleb Dressel, who went 49.03 on Team USA’s world record-breaking relay at the Tokyo Olympics.
All-Time Fastest Men’s 100 Fly Splits:
- Caeleb Dressel, United States — 49.03 (2021)
- Maxime Grousset, France — 49.27 (2023)
- Caeleb Dressel, United Stated — 49.28 (2019)
- Caeleb Dressel, United States — 49.33 (2019)
- Michael Phelps, United States — 49.72 (2009)
- Caeleb Dressel, United States — 49.76 (2017)
- Caeleb Dressel, United States — 49.92 (2017)
Just a day ago, Grousset became the world champion in the individual 100 fly, clocking a time of 50.14 to become the fifth-fastest performer in history. With his success as well as the success of Leon Marchand, the Frenchmen are in a very strong position come time for their home Olympic games next year.
That full stroke at the 50 made him so much faster than in the individual, he definitely has a 49 flat start in him. I think the 50.61 at Trials was misleading as he was very long on the finish, it could have been a 50.3-4. We‘ll see what Milak and Dressel are worth now after their deserved hiatus going into the Olympics. (But people will sleep on Grousset like this year and forget he is Top 3 material in 50-100 fly and free)
Where does that fly come from? 😯
The last time he swam a 100 fly in long course before this year was in 2018.
Last February 52.00
Last March 51.72
Last June at French nationals 50.61
And this week 50.14 in individual and 49.27 relay split.
Crazy!
He shaved his moustache, you need to follow the news!
Dressel had a similar trajectory in 2017 if you remember
But he is from the USA so no one question his progress
Grousset is also only 24. So, a swim from 5 years ago in 2018 would have made him 18/19. Lots of growth can happen in that time. Just look at Dressel.
First 50 22.4 is absurd
With .07 RT but still pretty good
Ideally their splits could be 52,2-58,5-49,2-47,5 to add up 3,28,4 and be medal contenders. Next year in Paris they are going to be dangerous
Most likely they won’t. They need everything to go right and they just don’t have a consistent free or back leg. Or an elite one besides grousset who can’t swim both free and fly.
How did the French not medal with a 49.2 fly split ???????????????
They had a weak breast 59,00 and free 48,40
and weak Backstroke
So basically France only has a butterflyer
😆 😆 😆 😆
They have a good free leg, too bad it’s also the guy who has a fantastic fly leg.
I was actually pretty shocked that marchand wasn’t faster. I bet it was a combination of his long schedule and not being used to racing sprint breast in LCM. Cleaning up the second one could make France a medal contender in Paris (not much he can do about the first one tho)
Mostly the anchor. 48.4 is kinda horrendous when you have a 49.2 fly split, especially since it came down to a margin of 0.2 for the podium. It came down to certain people having off meets. Their backstroker had a skiing accident I think a few months ago, and he was abt half a second slower than what he went earlier in the individual. Marchand going 59.00 was expected, he’s probably just not used to that sort of swimming yet. He might be faster if they decide to focus that relay. And manadeau was really off form from what he was at their trials. He would’ve been an easy 47 kid anchor on form with that new 48.1 PB. A… Read more »
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