The Male Swimmers With The Quickest 4-Stroke 800 IM Add-Ups

The closing replace, having already appeared on the 400 IM add-ups for women and men and the 800 IM add-up for ladies thus far, sees us take a look at the boys’s 800 IM add-ups.

The race for prime spot is far tighter than on the ladies’s aspect, with simply two-tenths of a second separating Michael Phelps and Leon Marchand right here. It is the previous who takes it, with massive benefits in again and free simply making up for Marchand’s 5.55 second benefit on breast. Phelps was no slouch in that self-discipline although – his 2:11.30 ranks him simply outdoors the top-200 all-time.

It could be ill-advised to count on the American to be on prime for lengthy nonetheless. Leon Marchand swam 3:44.70 within the 400 free on the U.S. Open a month in the past, which ought to correspond to a far quicker 200 free time than the 1:46.44 he posted two and a half years in the past.

Behind these two is a big hole, with Carson Foster practically 9 seconds again in third. He beats out Laszlo Cseh for the ultimate podium spot by a single hundredth, with the 2 separated by lower than a second in all 4 200s. Daiya Seto joins them beneath 7:50.00, albeit with a far quicker breaststroke of two:09.88, second-fastest of anybody within the top-20.

Chad le Clos simply misses the highest ten regardless of a 2:20.83 200 breaststroke, as his 1:52-point velocity on fly and 1:45-point velocity on free make up for it. That is the slowest breaststroke swim of anybody on the listing by three seconds.

Every swimmer on this listing is an elite 400 IM swimmer. The slowest, Jeremy Desplanches, has a better of 4:12.86 within the occasion, and solely 4 swimmers right here rank outdoors the top-50 in historical past – these are Seliskar (4:16.51), Desplanches (4:12.86), Chad le Clos (4:12.24), and Gunnar Bentz (4:11.66).

Thiago Pereira appears to be like to have made his means onto the listing by way of essentially the most egalitarian route, with no true elite time among the many 4 disciplines. He was a constant finalist within the IM within the late 200s and early 2010s, profitable Olympic silver on the London 2012 Games.

William Petric might be one to look at shifting up. He set three of his finest occasions (free, again, fly) final yr, greater than anybody else did.

A large 40% of swimmers on the listing are from the U.S., with no different nation placing greater than two into the top-20. There are 22 seconds between 1st and 2oth, albeit 9 second of that hole come between Marchand/Phelps and everybody else.

In complete, 9 of the highest 20 swimmers from the 400 IM add-up make the listing right here as effectively. Eight of these are world or Olympic medalists within the 200 IM or 400 IM – Andrew Seliskar is the odd man out, coming in seventeenth right here after being fifteenth within the shorter distances. He by no means swam a person occasion at a World Championships or Olympic Games for the U.S..

If you discover a swimmer who’s quick sufficient to have made the highest 20 however is lacking, tell us within the feedback beneath.

MEN’S TOP 20 – 800 IM ADD-UP

Swimmers Who Narrowly Missed Out:

• Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Ous Mellouli, and Thomas Ceccon missed out by lower than three-tenths of a second in 8:02.58, 8:02.59, and eight:02.64 respectively. Ceccon took prime spot within the 400IM add-up, however is sunk by a 2:20.88 200 breaststroke swim. Mellouli, regardless of being finest identified for the 800free and 1500 free, can also be the African Record holder within the 400 IM in each lengthy and brief course.
• There is extra elite 400 IM expertise simply outdoors the listing, within the type of Max Litchfield (8:04.50), Brendon Smith (8:06.61), and Duncan Scott (8:11.56). Scott has only a 2:27.83 200 breast – given he’s a 1:01-point swimmer within the 100, he might simply crack the highest 20 with a newer swim there.
• James Guy is a barely shocking identify close to the listing, with out ever having swum IM at an elite degree. He is definitely above Scott together with his 8:08.60, with a 2:22.90 200 breast practically 5 seconds quicker than his British teammate.
• Jack Conger and Kristof Milak are the highest swimmers lacking a breaststroke swim. Conger is barely forward after fly, again, and free in 5:35.71 to the Hungarian’s 5:35.83 – a 2:26-point 200 breast would have been sufficient to crack the listing for each.