2024 SYDNEY OPEN & UNISPORT NATIONALS
- Thursday, May 9th – Saturday, May 11th
- Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Start List
- Heats Program
- Live Results on Meet Mobile: “2024 Sydney Open Meet”
- Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap
The final day of action at the 2024 Sydney Open & Unisport Nationals saw New Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt bring the heat in the men’s 400m IM.
After dueling with Japanese maestro Daiya Seto in both the 200m IM and 200m fly, Clareburt got the edge over the Olympic medalist in a big way to close out the competition.
Racing in the 4IM final this evening, reigning world champion Clareburt fired off a winning effort of 4:08.71, a time just .01 outside his national record.
That got him to the wall well ahead of runner-up William Petric of the host nation, as well as Seto.
19-year-old Petric put up a solid performance in his own right for silver, nabbing 4:12.21 for a new lifetime best. That dipped under the Swimming Australia Olympic Qualification Time of 4:12.50 but he’ll need to repeat this caliber of swim at next month’s Trials.
Seto settled for bronze well back in 4:17.36 after already topping the aforementioned 2IM and 2fly podiums.
As for Clareburt, his outing tonight surpassed the 4:09.72 which garnered him the gold in Doha. In fact, it represents just the 2nd time the Kiwi has been under the 4:09 barrier, sitting only behind his lifetime best and national record of 4:08.70 posted for gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
| Clareburt’s NZL Record – 4:08.70 | Clareburt’s Time Tonight – 4:08.71 | Clarburt’s Worlds Win – 4:09.72 |
| 55.94 | 57.09 | 56.48 |
| 1:03.64 | 1:03.99 | 1:04.18 |
| 1:11.60 | 1:10.51 | 1:11.35 |
| 57.52 | 57.12 | 57.71 |
Clareburt ranks #1 in the world with Paris on the horizon. He’ll need to muster all he can to make a run at the podium, with world record older Leon Marchand of France, Max Litchfield of Great Britain, Chase Kalisz of the United States and more most likely in his midst.
2023-2024 LCM Men 400 IM
MARCHAND
4:02.95
| 2 | Carson FOSTER | USA | 4:07.64 | 06/17 |
| 3 | TOMOYUKI MATSUSHITA | JPN | 4:08.62 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Lewis CLAREBURT | NZL | 4:08.71 | 05/11 |
| 5 | Max LITCHFIELD | GBR | 4:08.85 | 07/28 |
Describing Petric as ‘of the host nation’ is a strange phrase to use in a report on a domestic event.
Clairburt is certainly a very real contender for bronze in Paris.
Petric’s recent advances in this event are very pleasing after a couple of years ‘plateauing’ and clipping the QT should certainly prove a confidence boost. A win at Trials ? Might be worth a modest wager.
Kalisz is the most Mickey Mouse Olympic gold medalist of all time
Why because Kalisz knows how to peak for the Olympics and swims modest times when it doesn’t matter?
It’s not his fault that Daiya Seto and Carson Foster decided to choke before the Olympic finals that year
“Clareburt ranks #1 in the world with Paris on the horizon. He’ll need to muster all he can to make a run at the podium, with world record older Leon Marchand of France, Max Litchfield of Great Britain, Chase Kalisz of the United States and more most likely in his midst.”
Carson Foster SAD 😞
Right. Carson is in his prime and most likely will be the top American.
It’s not really a lock for Kalisz to even make the team
Any recap of the other finals tonight?
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Who else wants to see Rikako go 56 again?
Her 57.63 is faster than anything she did from 2021-2023
I do! She was 57.30 at Trials.
NGL the time that Chase Kalisz went to win Tokyo might not even be good enough to final.
This upcoming Olympics is going to be superior to Tokyo in almost every way (except for the seller of the century Michael Andrew)
Aside from men’s butterfly (and perhaps 100 breast?), the winning times in all events are very likely to be faster than Tokyo.
The entire Tokyo meet was much slower than it should’ve been. Morning finals disrupted every swimmer’s flow and that was most apparent early in the meet with the 400 IM and 400 free.
Zero atmosphere probably didn’t help….
A 4:09 low is def making the Olympic final tho it prob won’t podium