it shouldn't be possible to swim this fast (but he did) 

Gretchen Walsh 47 100 fly is more impressive

I think his record shattering swim in the 500y free will spawn a new generation of distance swimmers who will not be lazy with their walls and underwaters (like 99% of the distance swimmers currently).

I think Dressel’s 50 free record might be one of if not the best NCAA record there is, his 17.63 was almost perfection and no one has come close to that in 6 years

6:15 Bro, I don’t think you have casual fans, we are all swimming nerds. Thanks for everything Kyle!

this one was more geared towards the swim nerds, hope y'all liked it 🙏

NCAA Record List... 200 free 500 free 1000 free 100 breast 200 breast 200 fly 200 back 200 im 400 im

According to the conversion tool on SwimSwam, 4:02:31 in the 500y free converts to 3:36:26 in the 400m long course. That's nearly 4 seconds faster than the WR from the superset era. Now, I don't think Leon would swim a 3:36 but he has to be a challenge to that WR at some point in the near future.

I must agree with you here. Even going back to the 1980‘s, I can’t remember any performance that was so mind boggling as this one. Sure, for the era there were some big moments and drops of records and barriers, but to cut an own best time a few weeks old by almost four seconds is out of this world! I can’t wait to see Leon in Paris! I swam against his father back in the days…

List for records Leon could break: All of them

Many have said that Marchand "flies and dies", but I don't necessarily agree with that. I don't think I've ever seen Marchand truly die in a race. He really only takes this approach in SCY. In LCM, his races are more evenly split. I think we have this idea in swimming that if you're going to go a certain time there's a "right" way to split it. I've been guilty of this myself. But with the exception of some outliers (Michael Andrew falling apart at the end of a 200 IM), maybe we need to let go of this idea. Could Marchand have closed faster if he backed off the first half? Of course. But would his final time have been faster? That's all that really matters, and I'm not sure that it would've been faster. Marchand has that unique mix of "easy" speed and amazing endurance. He can take races out (again, at least in SCY) faster than everyone else and then close them about the same or even faster. To me, averaging < 50 seconds per 100 for the last 300 after going out in 1:33 to the feet is "just" coming home like everyone else after going out like an effing rocket. We have this idea that "well, but a 4:02 500 freestyler should be able to come home faster than 50.01," and maybe a "classic" middle distance freestyler should. Meanwhile, Marchand is leaving such folks in the dust. As you mentioned, we even think there's a right breathing pattern. Just like the pacing strategy, the extra breathing makes a ton of sense if you view this from an optimization perspective. He could choose not to breathe as much, but he couldn't stay under water as long. It's probably better for him to get the extra oxygen so that he can stay under for that much longer. If Bowman thought he shouldn't breathe as much, I'm sure he'd set Marchand straight. Even if you think Marchand flies and "dies", it takes balls to take a 500 free out in 1:33 to the feet knowing you aren't even half way done, and I respect that.

I meannnnnn Tom Dolan went 4:08 in the 500 in a speedo in 1995, that’s pretty comparable with Marchand imo given the time

leon looks so devious in the thumbnail

So he’s now the fastest performer in history by four full seconds…

List of Marchand Records: 100 free (I think he could edge this one out) 200 free (already has it) 500 free (already has it) 100 back (insane underwaters will get him there) 200 back (same as above) 100 breast (fastest relay split ever already) 200 breast (already has it) 200 fly (he would crush this one, could probably go a 1:34, coming from Herbie) 200 IM (already has it) 400 IM (already has it) He could probably be around 18 mid 50 free. I’m not sure he could break the mile record but I’m not too confident in that. The 100 fly I could go either way on, but I’m not sure about his fly speed so I say he would get close but not quite get it. We need to have a 14 day NCAA championship to test this out!

Personally I put Leon’s 500 as impressive for men along with Dressel’s 17.6 because at the time he was swimming, with no competition even close to him, the concept of breaking just 19 seconds was still a barrier not many were breaking. And even now with more and more training being geared to the 50 and swimmers being trained only for the 50 free, still no one is close to that record besides Crooks(barely) and now Liendo.

His 400IM tonight will be the most impressive swim ever 😂

Genuinely think the only ones he couldn’t get are the 50 and 1650 free, maybe not the 100 free too (I think he could potentially get it) and 100 fly. This dude does not make sense. Broken the rules of swimmijg

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Here's my list of records I think Leon could NOT break: .

Before this week, I floated 3:59 around as a funny "what-if" possibility that was just based on silly math and not much else. After this week, I'm considering 3:59 as a serious possibility.

This race was a paradigm shift in the sport swimming. It will have the same impact on swimming that Roger Bannister had in track when he broke the four minute mile.

As someone who barrly broke 5 minutes ( as strictly a high school swimmer) thats nuts. His 400 split would have placed 7th in the womens 400 free relay. And he still had another 100 to go. So yeah craziest swim ever.

I'm here because I love Leon even more than I hate yards

i have no clue about scy all of this is kinda hard to get but i think as soon Leon goes to a scm meter pool tapered we (ppl who dont really know scy) will see what this means. I think Leon doesnt even understand himself what he is accomplishing right now because in France there are no yard pools aswell. So all this yard stuff was pretty distant before his time in america

leon's potential record list: 100 free 200 free 500 free 1000 free 100 breast 200 breast 200 fly 100 back 200 back 200 IM 400 IM

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I've watched this race at least 20 times already.

First time I’ve ever seen the 500 as a sprint

If this was a 7 day meet he could win almost all of the events.

Back in the day, Matt Biondi's American record in the 200 free was a 1:33.03. Marchand basically hit that at his feet to take out his 500. That's just nuts.

Was waiting for this!!

Do we dare claim Leon as the greatest college swimmer of all time?!?!?!

Your comment about people not noticing the two 18.0s in the 50 due to Marchand's 500 reminded me of a quote from Prefontaine (or was it Without Limits?) that went something like: Bill: You'll be running in the 3 mile for the team, rube. Pre: Nobody cares about the 3 mile. Bill: Give them a reason to care.

Leon Marchand record list: 100 free: 39.8 I think he has in him 200 free: 1:28.2 just based on that 500 500: next year he’s going 3:59 no way around it 100 back: 42.9 UNDIES 200 back: 1:35.0 more undies 100 breast: 48.99 I mean. 48.73 off a relay start. That’s all I have to say 200 breast: 1:45.XX if he’s goes 48 off a relay 100 breast, what can he do when he’s swimming a distance that he’s more comfortable with 200 fly: 1:34, he’d kill that ncaa record if he swam it. 200IM: yk im not sure if 1:36.34 will ever be beat, even by Marchand. 400IM: 3:25.XX if he doesn’t save for the medley relay then yeah he could break the 4 too Overall, I think he could get close to every record, that 500 and IM records though are just not human. Marchand is an alien

I had a 5:23 in high school and thought I was decent and then he’s a minute and 21 seconds faster than me…

Honestly if he dedicated training to each of the events I think he gets every single one except maybe the 50 free

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I know someone who is 16 and their 50 METRE free is 24 seconds. Now THAT is impressive

Dressel’s 17.6 then 17.3 off an exchange?? Don’t get me wrong, Marchand was a maniac. But Dressel literally pushed the limits of how fast a swimmer can physically move in a pool. Twice.

hes probably gonna have it in everything except for the thousand, mile, 50 fr, 1 fly, and 1 back and 2 back

Luka Mijatovic has the potential to break this record 😅

I think 4:02.30 is more impressive than 4:02.31...thats just my opinion tho :)

I wish we had SCY in Australia aswell.

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I think it’s much easier to list the events that he could NOT get the record in: -50 free -100 back -100 fly And the 1 back and 1 fly he could prolly get with the right event-specific training.

No, the 3:28 400IM by Leon was the most impressive. No one had been under 3:33 at that, right? He demolished the record and the field..and second place was a 3:34 which still be a top 3-5 swim in that event of all time.

I think it’s insane how he almost went sub 50 for all 100s

LET HIM COOK 😮‍💨

It is the most impressive of all time considering how fast he went for how long.

Kyle hiding in the gutter 🌚

It's really tough to compare, but Natalie Coughlin dropping a 49.97 in the 100 Back in 2002 has to be up there as the most impressive. No one else even broke 53... My top 5 list (limiting to 1 per swimmer) probably looks like: 1. Natalie Coughlin - 49.97 2. Leon Marchand - 4:02.31 3. Caeleb Dressel - 17.63 4. Gretchen Walsh - 47.42 5. Kate Douglass - 1:48.37

Seems like any freestyle race he goes into, the new meta is to dolphin kick half laps 😂

he could hold every record in NCAA

I don’t know if it’s “more” impressive, but Luke Hobson snatching back his 2 Free record is fairly impressive, given that he snatched it back from none other than Sir Leon himself.

Leon is better than phelps and is the best ncaa swimmer ever

I feel like it has to be just barely above dressel’s 50 free because if u think about it that 17.63 might be beatin before that 4:02

What about Ledecky's 4:24 in the 500 free? Thats still a dominant record.

Leon’s first 250 split is faster then my 200 free 😭

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He dropped more time in a month than Ncaa did in 29 years i think

He took more time off the record than the last 20+ years have.

I'm still on Dressel's 39.90 as better, just for crossing the milestone. Once 4:00 is broken, then that will be the greatest.

If he’s this fast does this mean he’ll go for the 400M long course world record at the Olympics? Because I checked and he’s not even in the top 25 all time 400m long course times. I’d appreciate a reply from anyone.

My time’s a 6:58

All free events -> he’s good and has most of them. All fly events -> he’s good he can do it All back events -> he’s good he can do it. All breast events -> he’s good and has some. All IM events -> he has them All diving events -> I mean he’s Leon look at his starts he can do flips on top of that.

I just get this gut feeling that it won’t be Marchand, but before 2030 someone will go sub 4:00

Caeleb dressel is still the greatest NCAA athlete of all time in my opinion, he broke barriers that most people hadn't even considered, 17.6 and 39.9 are the two most impressive records in the books and they're gonna last for a bit longer (until a stud like Maximus Williamson or Thomas Heilman gets into the system) but going out in an 18.96 on a 100 takes serious talent and bravery, and he was doing it at a time where going 40.9 was insane, 2nd place in that race was 41.07, really fast time, but caeleb dressel just was otherworldly, not to mention, it's the 4th day of setting insane generational records, unreal from caeleb dressel

Has anyone ever won 12 individual D1 titles over their 4 year NCAA career? Is Marchard on to do that?

Calling this 500 free as the GOAT swim after what GW did last week, and what Leon and KD did last year is WILD - not saying it’s wrong, it’s just that there’s been so many crazy swims lately

is it good dropt 10 seconds faster on the 400 free form two weeks

converts to 3"36'26 lcm

how does Gretchen walsh go 19.95 ????

I think he could win the 100 and 200 of all four strokes.

If he splits like 24.7 in those two 50’s that he went 25’s he can go under 4 minutes

I think Leon can break every record but 50FR and 100FL

Katie Ledecky beat the NCAA record in the 1650 yard by 22 seconds in a November invite. She also broke the 1000 yard record with her split. More impressive? I believe that time is still 20 seconds clear of the next best performer.

The only more impressive swim is his 400 IM from last year List of records he could DEFINITELY have: 200 fly 100 back 200 back 100 breast 200 breast 200 free 500 free 200 IM 400 IM 100 fly and 100 free he would be roughly 0.5 off imo, 50 free he could be 18 mid-high, 1650 no clue

I could probably swim that time (with a 2:00 false start)

In addition to the 5 he has now I bet he could get the record in the 100 breast and 200 fly

I think Marchand could hold every single record except for Dressel’s. Everything else I think he has. Yes, even the mile.

Caleb Dressel's 50 free at 17.6 and 42.8 100 fly are more impressive imo

200 im 400 im 500 free 200 free 200 breast 100 breast 200 back 200 fly

Bro you gotta post the night of

The list is 500 free 200 free 200 breast 100 breast 50 breast 200 fly 100 fly 200 IM 400 IM 1650 free

As a sub-6 minute 500 freestyler, let me tell you...

his 3:28 400 IM was other worldly also.

I want to see him try the 50,100 and 1650 free

I like how in swimming everyone swims and competes for medals, places... AND there's always one crazy mf who is just breaking records left and right, making entire competition irrelevant.

Marchand could get: 100 free 200 free 500 free 1650 200 fly 100 breast 200 breast 200 IM 400 IM

the best 500 swim in history of ncaa so far? yeah agreed... but best record in ncaa history overall I'd give to Katie in the mile

200 free 500 free 200 IM 400 IM 200 fly 100 breast 200 breast

As someone who has no clue what a "yard" is, how would this translate to a 400 free long course meters? Is this something he could final/medal in at Paris?

Thought about you during 'the event' and that you were absolutely losing it. Like us all and Rowdy. Sub-4:00 very soon...WTF!!

You should live stream your face during finals so we can see the trueeeee live reaction

HE SHOULD DO THE 100 BREAST

here is my list: 50,100,200,500,1000,1650 free 50.100,200 breast 50,100,200 back 50,100,200 fly 100,200,400IM

he only raced the 500y 6 times .....lol

NCAA record list 100 free 200 free 500 free 1000 free 100 fly 200 fly 200 back 100 breast 200 breast 100 IM 200 IM 400 IM + fastest relay spit any stroke any distance

4:08.75 for Dolan in 1995 is still further ahead of its time. This swim from Marchand is up there as an all-timer though

I think his 400 im and Dressel’s 50 free are more impressive.