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Our most up-to-date ballot requested SwimSwam readers which super-suited world file is subsequent to go down after what Lukas Märtens did within the 400 free in Stockholm:
Query: With the boys’s 400 free world file falling, which remaining super-suited world file will fall subsequent?
RESULTS
M 50 free (20.91) – 40.6%
W 200 fly (2:01.81) – 21.0%
M 200 free (1:42.00) – 19.5%
M 200 again (1:51.92) – 10.9%
M 800 free (7:32.12) – 8.0%
After almost 16 years, Paul Biedermann‘s super-suited world file within the males’s 400 freestyle fell by the wayside earlier this month, as fellow German Lukas Märtens clocked 3:39.96 to change into the primary man sub-3:40, reducing Biedermann’s mark of three:40.07 from 2009.
With that swim, there are simply 5 remaining particular person super-suited lengthy course world information, and we requested SwimSwam readers which ones will fall subsequent in our newest ballot.
The highest choice by a large margin was the world file within the males’s 50 free, which has stood at 20.91 since Cesar Cielo produced that point on the Brazilian Nationals in late December 2009, simply two weeks earlier than the super-suits had been banned.
Within the 15-plus years since, nobody has significantly approached the file, with no swims below 21 seconds. Caeleb Dressel has gotten the closest, twice clocking 21.04, whereas Cameron McEvoy (21.06) is the one different man to go sub-21.10 (together with Fred Bousquet, who was 20.94 suited).
Along with that, there’s just one extra energetic swimmer, Ben Proud (21.11), who has been sub-21.20, not together with Florent Manaudou (21.19), who’s taking a break from competing in the meanwhile.
Regardless, 40.6% of readers consider this file will fall subsequent. It’s potential there’s a perception that the 50 free file shall be subsequent to fall due to what Pan Zhanle did to the 100 free world file final 12 months, obliterating it by four-tenths. Perhaps some consider Pan focuses extra on the 50 and might take this file down, or somebody like McEvoy executes the right race and pulls it off.
Receiving the second-most votes within the ballot was the ladies’s 200 fly, which for a few years has been considered an untouchable file, however with the regular development of Summer time McIntosh, opinions are beginning to change.
The file stands at 2:01.81, held by China’s Liu Zige, and up till final summer time’s Olympics, nobody had been inside two seconds of that mark since Liu set the file in October 2009.
In Paris, McIntosh received gold in a time of two:03.03, the #2 swim of all-time, with Regan Smith additionally cracking 2:04 for the second time in her profession in 2:03.84 for silver.
Then, simply final month, McIntosh produced a time of two:04.00 on the Professional Swim Sequence cease in Westmont, a exceptional efficiency given it’s an in-season swim.
There have been 21% who assume Liu’s file falls subsequent, with McIntosh the almost definitely candidate.
The lads’s 200 free, which is Biedermann’s lone remaining world file (he initially held all 4 of the LC/SC 200/400 free), picked up 19.5% of votes, with David Popovici having entered into sub-1:43 territory in 2022, clocking 1:42.97 on the European Championships to tug inside a second of Biedermann’s mark of 1:42.00.
No different energetic swimmer has been below 1:44, so Popovici is the clear candidate to take a run at this file, although Pan seemingly has some untapped potential within the occasion.
The opposite two information nonetheless on the books are the boys’s 200 again and 800 free.
Within the 200 again, Aaron Peirsol fired off a time of 1:51.92 on the 2009 World Championships in what was a redemption swim of kinds after he missed the ultimate of the 100 again because the world file holder. Since then, the one swim sub-1:53 is the 1:52.96 produced by Ryan Lochte in 2011.
The 800 free is a very completely different animal, with Zhang Lin‘s file of seven:32.12 from the 2009 Worlds last sitting greater than three seconds sooner than the second-fastest swim ever, which was the 7:35.27 produced by Oussama Mellouli in the identical race.
Since then, nobody has damaged 7:37, with Ahmed Hafnaoui (7:37.00) and Sam Quick (7:37.76) the one different swimmers below 7:38.
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