{"id":656532,"date":"2026-10-31T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=656532"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:12:41","slug":"u-s-short-course-world-trials-day-4-mens-finals-final-butterfly-showdown-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-short-course-world-trials-day-4-mens-finals-final-butterfly-showdown-on-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Short Course World Trials, Day 4 Men\u2019s Finals: Ilya Kharun Drops No. 4 All-Time 50 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Short Course World Trials, Day 4 Men\u2019s Finals: Ilya Kharun Drops No. 4 All-Time 50 Fly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men\u2019s butterfly has gotten a shakeup at the Short Course Worlds Trials this week in Westmont.<\/p>\n

Tyler Ray<\/strong> and Ilya Kharun<\/strong> set U.S. Open records in the 100 fly, the latter getting the win. Luca Urlando<\/strong> downed the mark in the 200 fly, in the process erasing a six-year-old American standard by Tom Shields that Urlando, Kharun and Ray were all under. That doesn’t even include the name Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> quite yet.<\/p>\n

The 50 got a facelift Saturday, Kharun going 21.61 in prelims to beat his U.S. Open record and lop .38 off Shields\u2019 2021 mark. No surprise then that Kharun dropped it even further to 21.46 Saturday night, the No. 4 all-time performance and within two tenths of Egor Kornev’s<\/strong> fresh world record.<\/p>\n

All the action on the final night of the U.S.\u2019s selection meet:<\/p>\n