Mathias Elevates to World File Standing on First Worldwide Relay

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana swimming and diving director of operations Van Mathias got here into his first senior worldwide meet already the American document holder within the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke occasions. On his first Team USA relay Wednesday (Aug. 12) on the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California, Mathias helped his nation set a world document within the blended 4×100-meter medley.

His second occasion of the day, Mathias delivered a 57.3 breaststroke cut up as Team USA completed with a time of three:36.70, practically a second faster than the earlier customary (3:37.43, USA, 2024) Indiana native Will Modglin led off the relay, and Olympians Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass took care of the again half of the race.

WORLD RECORD????

Van Mathias delivers a 57.3 cut up to assist Team USA set the all-time mark within the 4x100m medley! pic.twitter.com/KyOKdrk0kP

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Mathias additionally earned a silver medal in his first particular person race of the meet Wednesday, going a private greatest 22.84 within the 100-meter butterfly. Mathias will race the 50 freestyle, 50 breaststroke, 100 breaststroke individually later this week.
 
Mathias was of 4 Hoosiers in motion on the opening day of Pan Pacs. Anna Peplowski was the highest American within the ladies’s 200-meter freestyle together with her fourth-place end, and Alex Shackell took fifth within the ladies’s 200-meter butterfly. Aaron Shackell gained the B-final of the boys’s 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:45.63, a time that might have completed fifth within the championship warmth.
 
Indiana Hoosiers on the Pan Pacific Championships
Schedule and Results
 

Oliver Dawson	Men’s 50m Breaststroke	Aug. 14
	Men’s 100m Breaststroke	Aug. 13
	Men’s 200m Breaststroke	Aug. 15
Josh Matheny	Men’s 50m Breaststroke	Aug. 14
	Men’s 100m Breaststroke	Aug. 13
	Men’s 200m Breaststroke	Aug. 15
Van Mathias	Men’s 50m Freestyle	Aug. 15
	Men’s 50m Breaststroke	Aug. 14
	Men’s 100m Breaststroke	Aug. 13
	Men’s 50m Butterfly	Silver – 22.84
	Mixed 4×100 Medley	Champion – 3:36.70
Anna Peplowski	Women’s 100m Freestyle	Aug. 13
	Women’s 200m Freestyle	4th – 1:55.94
	Women’s 200m Backstroke	Aug. 14
Aaron Shackell	Men’s 50m Freestyle	Aug. 15
	Men’s 100m Freestyle	Aug. 13
	Men’s 200m Freestyle	eighth – 1:45.63
	Men’s 400m Freestyle	Aug. 14
Alex Shackell	Women’s 100m Freestyle	Aug. 13
	Women’s 100m Butterfly	Aug. 14
	Women’s 200m Butterfly	fifth – 2:08.70
	Women’s 200m IM	Aug. 15

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