{"id":240071,"date":"2017-02-09T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=240071"},"modified":"2017-02-09T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:02:42","slug":"the-six-most-dominant-relay-legs-in-mens-swimming-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-six-most-dominant-relay-legs-in-mens-swimming-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Six Most Dominant Relay Legs in Men&#8217;s Swimming History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written By Benny Liang, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many of us gasp at how ridiculously fast swimmers are going nowadays, many of the barriers that have been broken were once considered insurmountable. As fast as those swims may be, the times swum in relays are even more so. From a mathematicians standpoint, the advantage of being able to time your start means a reaction time significantly lower than what it would be from a flat start. From a swimmers standpoint, a relay is an opportunity to give your best\u00a0for your teammates, and to go faster than you thought possible. With that being said, here are six of the most dominant relay legs in men&#8217;s swimming history.<\/p>\n<h2>400 Medley Relay, 2015 D1 NCAA Championships<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwHG_KnNY1s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The focus of this relay will be on California and Texas. California is in lane four in yellow caps, Texas in lane three in black caps.<\/p>\n<p>California leads off their relay with future Olympic Champion and World\/Olympic Record-Holder\u00a0<strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> in a blistering 44.17. All-American breaststroker <strong>Chuck Katis\u00a0<\/strong>tacks on a 50.12, and the race looks to be all but over. Texas&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Joe Schooling\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> need to make up over two seconds in the next 200 yards to pull a win.<\/p>\n<p>California freshman\u00a0<strong>Justin Lynch\u00a0<\/strong>posts a 45.47 on the fly leg, respectable in its own right, but is nonetheless run down by Schooling who splits 43.95. At this point California holds onto the lead by a mere half second with Texas sophomore Conger entering just behind Cal senior\u00a0<strong>Seth Stubblefield.<\/strong>\u00a0Through his tremendous underwaters, Conger takes the lead at the 25 and doesn&#8217;t look back. Texas finished the race in an NCAA record time of 3:01.23.<\/p>\n<h2>400 Free Relay, Beijing Olympic Games 2008<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Phelps Swimming Men&#039;s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Beijing Olympics 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ziV6tCqBJBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Any mention of incredible relay splits would be incomplete without this one. Going into the Beijing Olympics, everyone knew of\u00a0<strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong>&#8216;<strong>s<\/strong> goal of winning eight golds in a single Olympic games. This was going to be no easy feat. Along the way, Phelps would have to best the likes of\u00a0<strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Milorad Cavic<\/strong>, and the French 400 Free relay team.<\/p>\n<p>Teaming up with Phelps, Olympic rookie\u00a0<strong>Garrett Weber-Gale\u00a0<\/strong>pushed the American team past the French at the halfway mark. This wasn&#8217;t to last, however, as Frenchman <strong>Frederick Bousquet\u00a0<\/strong>blasted past American\u00a0<strong>Cullen Jones<\/strong> and handed a body length lead to 100 Free Olympic champion <strong>Alain Bernard<\/strong>. It looked like the French had it with 50 meters to go. Bernard&#8217;s first 50 was a mind boggling 21.27\u00a0<em>to the feet<\/em>. But as we know, veteran\u00a0<strong>Jason Lezak<\/strong> found another gear in the last meters of the race and touched out the French team to take home gold and let Phelps&#8217;s dream of eight golds live another day.<\/p>\n<h2>200 Medley Relay, 2016 D1 NCAA Championships<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2016 Men&#039;s NCAA 200 Medley Relay Championship Final\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1nlElh-k38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Going into the second day of the 2016 NCAA Championships, everyone thought the medley relay would be another two team race between the Golden Bears and Longhorns. After all, Texas and Cal had just blown out the field by over 3 seconds each in the 400 medley relay the previous night. As the final legs stepped up, it appeared that a Texas Cal 1-2 finish was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>What went fairly unnoticed was\u00a0Alabama, sitting within striking distance of the leaders. Alabama sprinter\u00a0<strong>Kristian Gkolomeev\u00a0<\/strong>took off like a bandit, sneaking on the outside past both California and Texas to give the Crimson Tide the win. Notably in this race, both Gkolomeev and\u00a0<strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> tied for the second fastest 50 free split in history at 18.00.<\/p>\n<h2>200 Medley Relay, 2013 Metros<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jack Conger 200 Medley Relay at Metros 2013\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOn-6J-jiTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following Division I swimming the past few years, you&#8217;ve heard of\u00a0<strong>Jack Conger<\/strong>. He&#8217;s one of the keys to Texas&#8217;s dominance at the national stage. Conger broke the American Record in the 200 fly at the 2016 NCAA&#8217;s, and this race gives us a flash to the past of how he got to that level.<\/p>\n<p>Conger swims the third leg for his team, Good Counsel, and turns a body length deficit into a two body length lead. We can see the underwaters and relay exchange that helped him give Texas the 400 Medley title two years later.<\/p>\n<h2>400 Medley Relay, 2016 Rio Olympic Games<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Phelps Last Olympic Race - Swimming Men&#039;s 4x100m Medley Relay Final | Rio 2016 Replay\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmIYanq5gH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The focus of this races will be on Great Britain&#8217;s Adam Peaty.<\/p>\n<p>This Olympic cycle, <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> had established himself as the worlds premiere in long course breaststroke. Peaty broke the 100 breast World Record in 2015 and became the first man to finish the race in under 58 seconds. Since then, no one has been able to contend with Peaty&#8217;s speed and endurance. His success with an incredibly high stroke\u00a0rate has caused some to rethink\u00a0how breaststroke should be swum.<\/p>\n<p>USA&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> heads the backstrokers, touching first in an Olympic Record time of 51.85. Peaty is one of the last swimmers to go in, and at the breakout emerges nearly two body-lengths behind USA&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Cody Miller<\/strong>. Over the course of the next 56.59 seconds, Peaty turns over the lead to GB flyer\u00a0<strong>James Guy<\/strong>. Peaty&#8217;s split isn&#8217;t just historic in that its the first under 58, its also the first under 57 seconds.<\/p>\n<h2>200 Free Relay, 2013 D1 NCAA Championships<\/h2>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2013 USC Men&#039;s Swimming 200y Relay - Vladimir Morozov World Record\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPYQEMcHR0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Vlad Morozov<\/strong>, also known as the Russian Rocket, is known for his lights-out speed more than anything else. Before <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>, Morozov was the guy to watch lead a field of the best swimmers on the country by a body length.\u00a0This swim is pure speed. The third leg for the USC Trojans, Morozov tears apart the field and swims the first 50 under 18 seconds, something Dressel has yet to do. Morozov&#8217;s time of 17.86 is the gold standard of speed, the fastest of the fast.<\/p>\n<p><em>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By Benny Liang, Swimming World College Intern Many of us gasp at how ridiculously fast swimmers are going nowadays, many of the barriers that have been broken were once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4287,"featured_media":50593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[26806,49412,35724,26655,27596,801,28626,26999,6302,25269,41202],"class_list":["post-240071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-adam-peaty","tag-benny-liang","tag-caeleb-dressel","tag-chuck-katis","tag-jack-conger","tag-jason-lezak","tag-joe-schooling","tag-kristian-gkolomeev","tag-michael-phelps","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-vlad-morozov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>The Six Most Dominant Relay Legs in Men&#039;s Swimming History - Swimming World<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many of us gasp at how ridiculously fast swimmers are going nowadays, many of the barriers that have been broken were once considered insurmountable. 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