ASU’s Leon Marchand tops own NCAA record in 500 free at 2024 NCAA Swimming Championships 

Listening to Rowdy have aneurisms over splits like this will always make NCAA’s my favorite time of the year

Normally the competition is only for humans, not dolphins.

On est tellement fier de toi Leon ! ALLEZ!!!!

France posseses at the same time the best swimmer on the planet with Marchand, the best footballer in the world with Mbappe, the best rugbyman worldwide with Dupont, and soon with Wemby, the next NBA MVP. Insane.

When I flip at the wall doing 100 y free, I'm luck to get my underwater to the flags. This dude is going almost halfway down the pool at each turn. Insane. Must have gills.

Nice with the signs "allez ASU" in french to encourage Léon Marchand. Bravo Léon! Tu es le meilleur!

Bowman said “so much talk, so little swimming” in practice last month and even tho not directed at him Léon took it personally it seems. Lol

I’ve never seen such a gutsy swim. Dude is quite literally a fish

ça sent bon les médailles d'or a Paris !

He went out in the same time as rowdy's national record in the 200.

His turns are incredible

Jesus. He is also able to maintain really good turns on this as well

Appreciate the French encouragements on ASU flag 😘

UNBELIEVABLE! Marchand can’t be stopped!!!

I can only hope he has not peaked too soon before the Paris games. Never did I think Phelps would be surpassed but this guy is on his way with the times he delivers. Good luck Mr Marchand, you are swimming in a field of one.

Bravo champion😮

most versatile male in swimming history

191 total strokes by my count (+ or - 2 or 3) flipping insanity

this dude is not human

I am a former distance swimmer 500 &1650 this is impressive!

rowdy is absolutely amazing

Great commentary!

8 ударов дельфина под водой и по 10 гребков на каждый бассейн и так 20 раз подряд- фантастические легкие или жабры у пловца и ноздри, как сопла

4:02 is wild

The monster

it was so great to watch being there

Impressionnant 😮😮

Just WOooowwww

The fact he went halfway underwater on the last 50 is not even comprehensible 😭😭😭

It's crazy that this is his off event

Allez leon🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷.

Nous devons rendre grâce, Remercier, L' Université Américaine, Où il s' entraîne chaque jour. Tout le mérite est a partager Avec cette université. Merci Infiniment, De France, Sincèrement, ☀️☀️🌙🌙🍀🍀🇫🇷🇺🇸

vincerebbe le medaglie.. d'oro in tutti gli stili.figuriamoci nei misti

THE FRENCH MONSTER!!!! 🇫🇷🇫🇷

Léo vivement les JO !! ramènes nous la médaille d'OR !! Vive la FRANCE !!

Ces bassins de 25 mètres sont idéaux pour Marchand vu la qualité de sa coulée.

WOOO

His tempo is fucking bananas

Marchand, Wembanyama, Mbappé,... why are aliens in sports always french ?

Léon 🐬🐬🐬

This guy is unbelievable, I thought he might break 4 min, there’s just no words

Remember when people used to say “Distance swimmers can’t kick for their whole race?”

Even Bowman was shaken

How is that even possible?

If he stays in the NCAA and swims the 500 again, I really do think that a sub 4:00 race could happen

Bravo MARCHAND !! Goooo France

Je ne m'y connais pas très bien natation mais il me semble que la nage libre était son " point faible " non ? peut-il aussi envisager des médailles aux JO sur cette discipline ?

And insanely, Marchand is not sprinting

Jeux olympiques 2024 à Paris, à la maison 🇨🇵🥇🥇🥇🥇🔥👏🤟🤟💪. Pas de pression tu vas te gaver 😉😁🇨🇵🔥👏🤟💪🥇🏆🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵🦁.

would love to see him swim the 400 LCM, someone needs to break that stupid super suit record already

Still don't believe in aliens ?????

wemby marchand , 2 aliens

Thanks to Bob Bowman

Let's go Leon, let's go!!! He's going to go sub four eventually. Jesus! Amazing swim🙂

It's crazy that he broke his own record by 4 seconds and went out as fast as he did and survived the pianos. I would love to see what Marchand could go in a 400m free LCM, given that he hasn't swam the event long course in a long time. It could be something great, but not likely to approach the world and textile best times of 3:40.07 (Biedermann *supersuit) and 3:40.08 (Thorpe textile real world record). This is possibly due to over reliance on his underwaters as opposed to above water swimming in freestyle? His listed pb is "only" a 4:04.65, which is slower than his 400m IM LCM world record of 4:02.50. Clearly, he's way faster than that, especially with a 1:46.44 (1:44.89 relay split) in the 200m free LCM, and the world record in the 400m IM LCM (along with his yards times in freestyle).

We have 2 French Aliens in the US Marchand and Wemby 😅 youuuuuhouuu

plus proche du dauphin que de l humain

the SCM world is not ready for Marchand when he graduates.

sera t-il capable de briser 4:00

Marchand's 200 split (to the feet) would have won every NCAA Championship until 2008.

Can we just stop and contemplate on his 400m SPLIT being 3:12.30, which is TWENTY SECONDS faster than the World Record for the 400m itself?

It's obvious guys, 2025 Marchand goal : 500y free - sub 4min 100y breast - sub 49sec 200y fly - breaking Jack Conger NCAA record

😮😮

I'm crying .. ASU!

For those wondering the estimated LCM conversion: 3:37

Out 1:33.1. Nuts.

Le Phoque

Soon, he won’t need his arms. Like dolphins 😂

vous aimez ? c’est français 🇫🇷🇫🇷

leon what about the 400 free ?

Why do they swim in a 25 yard pool?

Swimmers at this level are obviously very good at what they do. But I’m sure they hate short course distance freestyle races. 25 meter pools are just a joke.

Pas mal non ? C'est français 🇨🇵

Legend says that Mbappé, Wembanyama and Marchand landed on earth in the same vessel…. Too bad the spacecraft landed in France

Marchand/Wemby/Dupont/Mbappé. C'est fou le nombre de prodiges qu'un petit pays de 70M d'habitants arrive à produire.

HIS UNDERWATER amazing. in a olympic size swimming pool his advantage would be limited.

Marchand is argueably the best swimmer in history (based on performance, not consistency through the years, he's a kid). But a small yard pool is a bad indicator to predict possible times in Paris Olimpics. He is the best diver in history by far he is diving half pool all the time.

S ils font un efant avec wemby.. il pourra se présenter à la maison blanche.

😊😉

Wtf

What a joke ,they swim half the race under water,what happened to swimmng.

Total smoke.

Where are all the women? Surely there must be some trans women who made the event?

Leon really stole what would have been a super tight race from us. Honestly I would have rather fully focused on hobson and magahey duking it out till the end than watch frog boy go halfway on every turn. Don't get me wrong it's really impressive. But to me he is completely ruining yards swimming.

Didn't even break 4 minutes trashhhhhhhhhh