The United States relay team of Ryan Hoffer, Daniel Krueger, Michael Jensen and Maxime Rooney topped the competition in prelims of the men’s 400-meter freestyle relay finishing with a time of 3:17.84 at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. This time puts them only .88 seconds off the meet and World Junior record of 3:16.96 set in 2013 by Australia.
Italy’s relay team of Ivano Veraname, Giovanni Izzo, Alessandro Bori and Alessandro Mires grabbed the second-place seed for tonight’s finals with a time of 3:19.35.
The relay team of Jack Cartwright, Vincent Dai, Brayden McCarthy and Kyle Chalmers from Australia rounded out the top three with a time of 3:20.10.
Brazil’s relay consisting of Pedro Spajari, Victor Furtado, Victor Santos and Felipe Souza finished fourth overall with a qualifying time of 3:20.72, while Canada’s Markus Thormeyer, Stephen Calkins, Carson Olafson and Javier Acevedo were a close fifth with a time of 3:20.98.
Russia claimed the sixth-place seed with a time of 3:21.48, while Egypt (3:23.84) and Venezuela (3:24.03) rounded out the top eight.
Way to go Hoff, go get that World Record!!!