2021 FINA SHORT COURSE SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Reported by Michael Hamann.
Men’s 400 IM Final
- World Record: 3:54.81 – SETO Daiya (JPN) 20 DEC 2019
- Championship Record: 3:55.50 – LOCHTE Ryan (USA) 16 DEC 2010
World Junior Record: 3:59.15 – SETO Daiya (JPN) 13 DEC 2012
Top 8 finishers:
- Daiya Seto (JPN): 3:56.26
- Illia Borodin (RUS): 3:56.47 (WJR)
- Carson Foster (USA): 3:57.99
- Alberto Razzetti (ITA): 3:59.57
- Kieran Smith (USA): 4:03.29
- Eitan Ben Shitrit (ISR): 4:08.31
- Brandonn Almeida (BRA): 4:08.77
- Balazs Hollo (HUN): 4:11.26
Japan’s Daiya Seto, the current World Record holder, led wire to wire and held off a hard charging Illia Borodin to win the world title in 3:56.26. Seto’s lifetime best of 3:54.81 came in the 2019 ISL finals in Las Vegas.
The USA’s Carson Foster, who finished runner-up to Seto in the 200 IM earlier in this meet, took the bronze in 3:57.99. Italy’s Alberto Razzetti finished off the podium in fourth, though broke the Italian record in 3:59.57 and becomes Italy’s first man under 4:00 in the event.
I wish Mr Foster the best but I repeat here once again that Mr Marchand will own the IM events for the years to come, especially the 400 IM. The young Frenchman is programmed to win one or two gold medals at home in Paris in 2024. Great fights in perspective between Léon, Borodin and Carson in the decathlon of swimming. We have 3 great young talents. But again I put my money on Léon with a chance of breaking Michael Phelps’ world record in Paris.
THE GOAT IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He hasn’t gone under 4.09 yet so it’s a very wild guess atm
Bowman will ruin him just like he did Angel.
Borodin gonna have his number for years to come.
But didn’t someone point out that Foster has a faster PB LC
He needs to work on his start and turns. Watch video of the race Seto turns quicker and probably has more momentum carried off the rurns. In Carson’s turns he flips much slower than Seto and probably loses momentum.
*turns*
I’ll give him a bit of a break for this being SCM, weird distance for turns.
True but Seto is so much faster flipping compared to Carson. It would be such a simple thing to correct.
To be fair to Foster, I don’t think there’s many with tighter turns than Seto. It’s what helped him break Lochte’s short course record.
Faulting Foster for this is like faulting someone for losing ground to Dressel off the start.
I believe Foster could be just as good as Seto in the turns.
This is why he is a better swimmer in the big pool.
He needs to get stronger and keep working on his breast and free splits, and being just 19 I think he will have a good chance to do something in the 406 range down the road
Yeah but 4:08 in summer after freshman year, you’d think he’d have a legit shot to go 4:04 before he’s done.
It is not about getting stronger. He is already strong enough to flip faster. It is a matter of technique. Maybe one of the Texas divers can teach him to flip faster and not be so nonchalant.
Maybe Drew Kibler could help. His turns are wicked quick.
absolutely
Borodin is going to be his greatest challenge to international gold medals.
Totally, Carson swam well, but Borodin is a couple years younger and already faster. His back half is much better!
Borodin is a second and a half slower in long course
You never know what he could have done at the Olympics if he was able to compete.
If If If, doesn’t exist
What indeed exists is the fact that Borodin just beat Foster at short course worlds despite being very weak at the turns.
Leon Marchand
Casas just beat Kolesnikov and people thought KK would be setting world records and dominating by now. Its not happening and it will be the same for Borodin unless he drops down to 1:54/4:05 range he is going to still get beat some of the time just like Seto did in Tokyo.
nah, kolesnikov clearly untapered/unrested this meet. when he is in shape or tapered he break world record for fun at 50m, or easily swim 52s lcm 48s scm.
Of course KK was rested and tapered
Well that’s my point that if they show up not at their peak they get beat pretty easily. None of these guys are good enough to just walk on deck and win every time. They will all have their victories over the years including foster
But seto wasn’t clearly properly prepared for the games.
I’m excited for his future
nice job fostah
Thought he’d be much better in the 400 IM. Hopefully, Eddie and Wyatt are holding something back.
He said in previous video that he is fully tapered.
Well, then I thought he’d be much, much better.
Literally his first time swimming SCM and he gets a medal at worlds.
I think Carson swam some World Cup circuits back in Highschool when he was on the Junior National team, but nonetheless considering his experience he crushed it
He swam 3.57
For reference, I’m pretty sure that after about 40 years of swimming career, laszlo cseh‘s pb was a 3.57 as well, a notoriously „bad“ IM and all around swimmer right?
That time was down when he was 24, regardless, foster has an incredible amount of potential
Just wait and see if he can back up his post olympics 400 at the next trials
I think he just did?
I mean like for world champs, if he can reproduce that 4.08 or whatever he did