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MEN’S 4 X 50 MEDLEY RELAY – FINALS
World Record: 1:33.65 – Italy – 2013 1:30.91 – Brazil – 2014
The first ever Short Course World Champions in the men’s 200 medley are the Brazilians, who took the title and the record on Wednesday in 1:30.91. That cleared the 1:32.78 that Russia swam in prelims.
This is a relay tailor-made for the Brazilians, who have incredible speed over the 50 meter stroke races. Guilherme Guido put them in a slight hole early on the backstroke, but Felipe Franca, Nicholas Santos, and Cesar Cielo, all former World Champions in their events and contenders here in Doha, made quick work to catch back up, and the Brazilians led at every other exchange.
A little teaser of a later final: France took 2nd in 1:31.25, including a 20.04 anchor from Florent Manaudou. Cesar Cielo split 20.08 to anchor the Brazilians, but was a tenth better on his reaction time. That’s an enticing matchup. Russia’s Vlad Morozov was only 20.43 for his 4th-place relay.
The Americans earned a second relay bronze medal of the meet with the team of Eugene Godsoe, Cody Miller, Tom Shields, and Josh Schneider. Godsoe had the fastest splits of anyone in the field on the backstroke leg and Shields was 2nd-best on the fly to Santos, giving the Americans some high hopes after an unexciting day one for Team USA.
Great Britain took 5th in 1:32.30, with Adam Peaty splitting a solid 25.71 as a warmup for the 100 breast final later in the session. Italy was 6th in 1:32.68, followed by Lithuania (1:34.35) and a Le-Clos-less South Africa (1:35.05).
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wasai tailihaile
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Seeing that Manaudou and Cielo went 20.04 and 20.08, respectively, I was wondering what is the fastest relay split for the 50 free SCM? Under 20.00?
I dont know if it was the fastest, but i think Fred Bousquet went 19.9 in the past.
Bousquet went 19.87 while Leveaux went 19.93 on the european record split in 4×50 freestyleat the european championships in 2008. Worth noticing is that the european record is in fact faster than world record as LEN took note of the 4×50’s before FINA did, but fina wouldnt recognize the european standards as official swims and therefore the times are a bit confusing.