{"id":391112,"date":"2019-08-20T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=391112"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:39:56","slug":"united-states-men-crush-world-junior-record-in-4x100-free-relay-with-stellar-splits-from-urlando-chaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/united-states-men-crush-world-junior-record-in-4x100-free-relay-with-stellar-splits-from-urlando-chaney\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Men Crush World Junior Record in 4×100 Free Relay With Stellar Splits From Urlando, Chaney"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Junior Championships (USA World Junior Record)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Budapest, Day 1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The United States men broke the world junior record in the 4×100 free relay on the first night of the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest<\/strong><\/a> with a 3:15.80.\u00a0Jake Magahey<\/strong> (49.51),\u00a0Luca Urlando\u00a0<\/strong>(48.73),\u00a0Adam Chaney\u00a0<\/strong>(48.64) and\u00a0Carson Foster\u00a0<\/strong>(48.92) propelled the Americans to the record as they also broke the Championships Record that the Australians set in 2013 at 3:16.96. Russia (3:16.26) and Italy (3:16.29) were also under the old records.<\/p>\n

The Italians were leading after 200 meters thanks to a stellar start from\u00a0Federica Burdisso\u00a0<\/strong>(49.38) and\u00a0Thomas Ceccon\u00a0<\/strong>(48.59). USA used arguably its best leg in Chaney on the third leg as he went right past\u00a0Mario Nicotra\u00a0<\/strong>(49.65) to give Foster some clean water.<\/p>\n

Foster was able to hold off Italy’s anchor leg\u00a0Stefano Nicetto\u00a0<\/strong>(48.67) and a strong push from Russia’s anchor\u00a0Andrei Minakov\u00a0<\/strong>(47.82) as the Ohio native held on to win the gold medal, and added a lane line celebration to finish off the first night of competition.<\/p>\n

Minakov’s stellar anchor leg was not enough to catch the Americans as they collected the silver medal with the likes of\u00a0Arsenii Chivilev\u00a0<\/strong>(50.23),\u00a0Aleksandr Shchegolev\u00a0<\/strong>(48.54),\u00a0Egor Pavlov\u00a0<\/strong>(49.67) and Minakov (47.82).<\/p>\n

In historic context, the junior USA team was travelling swifter than the\u00a03:16.53 at which the USA senior quartet of Chris Jacobs,\u00a0Troy Dalbey,\u00a0Tom Jager and\u00a0Matt Biondi\u00a0(47.81) claimed Olympic gold in a then world record at Seoul 1988 and just a touch away from the 1995 world standard established by\u00a0David Fox,\u00a0Joe Hudepohl,\u00a0Jon Olsen and and\u00a0Gary Hall, Jr. in 1995.<\/p>\n

The top three teams in Budapest today were well ahead of the rest of the field with Canada (3:19.10) placing fourth. There were rumors during the race that Canada and Australia would be disqualified but they were not, despite Canada’s James Lebuke\u00a0<\/strong>registering a -0.02 reaction time and Australia’s Alex Quach\u00a0<\/strong>registering a -0.03 takeover. FINA allows -0.04 so the takeovers were legal.<\/p>\n

Brazil (3:20.17), Australia (3:20.48), Ukraine (3:21.07) and Hungary (3:22.85) also swam in the final.<\/p>\n