NCAA Men’s Championships: Leon Marchand Leads 400 IM Prelims with 3:34

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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)

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