A Take a look at the Worldwide Taste of the Previous Three NCAA Championships (Males’s Version)
The primary set of midseason invitationals wrapped up over the weekend, with a number of stellar performances highlighting competitors throughout the US. On the Texas Invitational, the Longhorns’ Will Modglin logged an American file within the 100-yard backstroke, going 43.26, whereas Georgia’s Luca Urlando lowered his NCAA and American marks within the 200 butterfly.
Moreover, Canadians Josh Liendo (Florida) and Ilya Kharun (Arizona State) put collectively a lot of eye-opening performances of their prime occasions, with Brazil’s Gui Caribe (Tennessee) trying sharp within the sprint-freestyle disciplines. The gathering of quick outings not solely generates larger pleasure for the NCAA Championships in March, however gives a have a look at the worldwide range on show inside the collegiate scene.
With most packages that includes worldwide athletes on their collegiate rosters, Swimming World gathered statistics from the final three editions of the NCAA Championships. Particularly, we regarded on the residence nations of top-three finishers and located that no fewer than 10 international locations have produced a gold, silver or bronze medalist on the largest meet of the school season.
Of the 39 top-three slots obtainable on the NCAA Champs, the US claimed slightly below half of these locations on the 2025 meet, and simply greater than half in 2023 and 2024.
Here’s a breakdown of the homelands of the top-three male finishers in particular person occasions between the 2023-2025 NCAA Champs:
2025
USA – 18Canada – 6Hungary – 4Belgium – 3Cayman Islands – 2Brazil – 2Kyrgyzstan – 1South Africa – 1Spain – 1Great Britain – 1
2024
USA-22Canada-4Hungary-3France-3Cayman Islands-1Brazil-1Israel-1Australia-1Poland-1Spain-1Kyrgyzstan-1
2023
USA-21Canada-3France-3Spain-3Sweden-2Cayman Islands-1Kyrgyzstan-1Israel-1Egypt-1Poland-1Hungary-1Netherlands-1
