{"id":601352,"date":"2024-12-10T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=601352"},"modified":"2024-12-10T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:15:35","slug":"flash-usa-mens-4x100-free-relay-take-down-world-record-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-usa-mens-4x100-free-relay-take-down-world-record-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASH! USA Men’s 4×100 Free Relay Take Down World Record In Budapest; CR For Jack Alexy On Lead-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLASH! USA Men’s 4×100 Free Relay Take Down World Record; CR For Jack Alexy On Lead-Off<\/h4>\n

The USA men’s 4×100 free relay lowered Italy’s WR as the first night of the short-course worlds ended in Budapest with six new global standards having been set.<\/p>\n

The quartet were inside the previous standard throughout and came home in 3:01.66 that saw them emulate their female counterparts as they claimed back-to-back WRs.<\/p>\n

Jack Alexy<\/strong> set a 100 free championship record of 45.05 on lead-off to take 0.11 from the 45.16 posted by Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> on his way to gold at Melbourne 2022.<\/p>\n

He was followed by Luke Hobson<\/strong> (45.18) and Kieran Smith<\/strong> (46.01) before Chris Giuliano<\/strong> dropped an anchor leg of 45.42 to steer the quartet home inside Italy’s 3:02.75 from Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Alexy said: “It’s pretty amazing that we swam a world record and even more amazing with the USA flag on my swim cap.\u00a0 I am really fortunate and also happy to be here representing my country.”<\/p>\n

Giuliano added: “That was fun. When Coach told me I would anchor, wow, you know that I always love being in that position and hoping to bring it home with the boys, yep it was a great race.”<\/p>\n

Italy were second in 3:03.65 with Poland third in 3:04.46.<\/p>\n