NCAA Men’s Championships: Leon Marchand Leads 400 IM Prelims with 3:34
A morning after blitzing the NCAA record in the 200 individual medley, Leon Marchand comfortably secured the top seed in the 400 IM at the 2023 NCAA Championships.
Marchand went 3:34.47 to set a Jean K. Freeman Aquatics Center record. He’s the top seed by nearly a second and a half and within three seconds of his NCAA record from the Pac-12 Championships.
Sticking with him in the final heat of five was last year’s NCAA champion, Hugo Gonzalez of Cal. The Spanish international went 3:35.86.
Third is Carson Foster of Texas, who shut it down coming home to go 3:36.38. He’s one of three Longhorns in the final, with David Johnston fifth and Jake Foster into the A final in eighth. Hubert Kos went 3:36.86 to get in there in fourth for the Sun Devils.
Cal’s Jason Louser pulled away in breaststroke in the first circle-seeded heat to go 3:38.19. that got him the sixth seed. Jake Foster was second, and Baylor Nelson third, which landed him ninth by .05. Foster dominated the next-to-last heat, with Kos for company briefly in the front half.
In the last heat, Georgia’s Ian Grum gave chase of the leading Pac-12 pair, which was fast enough for him to drop 1.5 seconds and get into the A final in seventh.
Event 8 Men 400 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 3:31.57 3/3/2023 Leon Marchand, Arizona St
Meet: M 3:32.88 3/25/2022 Hugo Gonzalez, California
American: A 3:33.42 3/24/2017 Chase Kalisz, Georgia
U. S. Open: O 3:31.57 3/3/2023 Leon Marchand, Arizona St
Pool: P 3:35.29 3/23/2018 Abram DeVine, Stanford
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Marchand, Leon SO ASU 3:31.57 3:34.47P
r:+0.67 21.80 47.22 (25.42)
1:14.09 (26.87) 1:40.94 (26.85)
2:11.19 (30.25) 2:41.89 (30.70)
3:08.90 (27.01) 3:34.47 (25.57)
2 Gonzalez de Oliveira, 5Y California 3:37.65 3:35.86
r:+0.65 22.36 48.61 (26.25)
1:16.14 (27.53) 1:43.08 (26.94)
2:13.40 (30.32) 2:43.72 (30.32)
3:10.45 (26.73) 3:35.86 (25.41)
3 Foster, Carson JR Texas 3:35.49 3:36.38
r:+0.66 22.29 48.19 (25.90)
1:15.66 (27.47) 1:42.29 (26.63)
2:12.58 (30.29) 2:43.46 (30.88)
3:10.43 (26.97) 3:36.38 (25.95)
4 Kos, Hubert FR ASU 3:37.68 3:36.86
r:+0.60 22.47 49.26 (26.79)
1:15.96 (26.70) 1:42.16 (26.20)
2:12.77 (30.61) 2:44.38 (31.61)
3:11.05 (26.67) 3:36.86 (25.81)
5 Johnston, David JR Texas 3:39.36 3:37.90
r:+0.67 23.37 49.77 (26.40)
1:17.92 (28.15) 1:45.22 (27.30)
2:15.87 (30.65) 2:47.01 (31.14)
3:13.06 (26.05) 3:37.90 (24.84)
6 Louser, Jason SR California 3:37.60 3:38.19
r:+0.71 23.21 49.82 (26.61)
1:17.87 (28.05) 1:45.14 (27.27)
2:14.42 (29.28) 2:44.67 (30.25)
3:12.17 (27.50) 3:38.19 (26.02)
7 Grum, Ian SR Georgia 3:40.32 3:38.75
r:+0.69 22.59 48.82 (26.23)
1:16.31 (27.49) 1:43.16 (26.85)
2:15.09 (31.93) 2:47.40 (32.31)
3:13.21 (25.81) 3:38.75 (25.54)
8 Foster, Jake SR Texas 3:39.71 3:39.09
r:+0.66 23.05 49.67 (26.62)
1:18.24 (28.57) 1:46.25 (28.01)
2:16.42 (30.17) 2:47.69 (31.27)
3:14.23 (26.54) 3:39.09 (24.86)
