Leon Marchand:

2024 NCAA D1 Men's Swim & DIve Championships: Leading off the 800y Freestyle relay for Arizona State, Junior Leon Marchand recorded the fastest 200y Free swim in history and became the first man ever under 1:29.
Arizona State would finish 2nd overall in the relay to California, who themselves broke the NCAA Record in the relay in a time of 6:02.26.

[@ButtstrokeSwim]

aaaaaaaaaaaand Luke Hobson just went 1:28.81 lmao

[@oblblg08]

Why would you laugh your ass off ??? Awesome swim by Luke and new NCAA record .. congratulations to him and incredible swim indeed - much respect !! 👍. Leon swims everything from sprint to 500 free (US Open Record Holder), elite world class breastroke (he outsplit the champion of the 100 breast by 3/4 of a second on the 400 medley relay), fly and oh yeah record holder in ALL individual medley distances. I guess when your as GREAT as Leon is people will nitpick you when someone out performs you barely in 1 event of the multitude you compete in...CURIOUS to all reading this - what time would Leon swim if the 200 Free was his only or main event?? Crazy to think about ......

[@ccbgaming6994]

@@oblblg08 Are you high?

[@aaronmallamad5797]

It would be hype if you uploaded the rest of the heat

[@jalenstimes7452]

What was even crazier was that Luke Hobson leading off of Texas' relay broke the NCAA (and now American) record the heat before he did!

[@sci-animation1722]

aaaand he just did it again

[@captainjaf7611]

Lowkey wished Luke and Marchand swim the 200 free together imagine how far they’d push each other

[@Shawkster6]

The D3 format is slightly different and kinda avoids that problem. They do prelims relays for every relay except the 800 free relay, which is timed finals, and only the top 8 seeds swim it at night. It's a different vibe 🤷‍♂️ pros and cons to both formats

[@MrFinny95]

His underwaters are just crazy. Amazes me each time.

[@starfieldo]

that's bowman impact right there. phelps' underwaters were almost exactly the same.

[@blueliam]

@@starfieldono, Marchands are wayyy better, especially in long course (Phelps hardly did short course)

[@edcal33166]

He’s still underwater for 5 seconds at the 150! Not human.

[@blueliam]

@@edcal33166 he probably can hold his breath for like 8 minutes when he’s fully calm lol

[@starfieldo]

@@blueliam irrelevant. i never said one is better than the other.

[@user-ti8et6gh5z]

Félicitations Léon 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@greggassen5548]

Geeze. The fact that Lèon was behind Luke for the 100 and 150 split means hr must've come back like a missle on that last 50

[@verward]

Leon Marchand really did some damage to Hobson's legacy. He stole the honor of being the first guy under 1:29 in the 200 free, then he went on to not only make sure Hobson wouldn't defend his 500 free title, but swam a time so ridiculous nobody is even talking about the fact Hobson went 4:06.9 and beat Magahey in a really thrilling race.

[@ninerushclips3414]

Hobson pushed him for sure💪

[@ccbgaming6994]

He wasn’t in the same heat but psychologically yeah maybe.

[@ninerushclips3414]

@@ccbgaming6994 ya, and that's too bad, imagine if Leon road off Hobson's waves! Or vice versa!

[@ccbgaming6994]

@ninerushclips3414 It would have been an amazing race. Fortunately we’ll still get to see them face off in the 500 free tonight.

[@ccbgaming6994]

@ninerushclips3414 Welp looks like Leon was hiding something special for the 500 💀

[@ninerushclips3414]

@@ccbgaming6994 lol, the understatement of the year

[@hondaken8402]

holy fucking shit

[@sci-animation1722]

Luke hobson is a DAWG for beating this

[@tysonhuynh3460]

can you post all the swims

[@aculturedspecimen]

Imagine drilling a 1:28 at NCAA’s and not even swimming it individually #JustMarchandThings

[@marineHumanitoo7139]

Yes !!!! 😁👍👌

[@quantumcat7673]

Badassstroke would have been interesting as a name too, humoristically of course!

[@ninerushclips3414]

Kind of expected that after he went 1:30 not tapered 😂, ngl

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

He split 1:28.4 and made Carson Foster's anchor look slow last year, it just got lost in him smashing records that are officially tracked. This has been on the radar

[@ninerushclips3414]

@@randomchannel-px6ho agreed, and Carson had a fair split too!

[@purselmer5931]

O M G

[@MrKernkraft4000]

Sweet merciful Jesus.

[@billybob6604]

bro is gonna have every record ever

[@dylan_1313]

Excuse me 😳

[@AccordGTR]

How does he have to swim 4x 25 averaging 22sec?!!!

[@acefrehley28]

First comment on a world record video.... Beat THAT!

[@australiancreepycrawlies6417]

lol, as an Australian, I am actually growing as a fan of watching this yard swimming… but I do not want to hear of this “world record” language when only 1 out of 195 countries swim yards.

[@ccbgaming6994]

@australiancreepycrawlies6417 Even though I agree with you, your logic is wrong. Leon is french.

[@australiancreepycrawlies6417]

@@ccbgaming6994 where did Leon do that swim? People in France don’t swim yards. French swim yards in American colleges only.

[@TheOnlyDragonGod]

​@@australiancreepycrawlies6417 technically it is a world record as it is the fastest anyone in the world has gone but I agree with you on all the points. I still prefer scm as my favorite because that is what I swim but all three are fun to watch

[@australiancreepycrawlies6417]

@@TheOnlyDragonGod yeah I suppose, but it’s a totally exclusive WR, if ur gonna call it that. It almost seems like u need to be enrolled in an US college to contest it. Tomoru Honda can’t wake up one day and decide he wants to obliterate Jack Congers 200 “world record”. It just seems pretty rich to be flaunting around WR language with that level of specificity. Exaggerated example lol, but yeah I’m the “world record holder” of my custom backyard pool of 9.74386667m in length. I am a world record holder🥳🤩

[@trentwhitlock3504]

NCAA (D1) swimming should be all long course(copy the Olympic format)

[@Zhhzhxbabanskns]

Another record the goat!! First comment 😊

[@ferencorosz9753]

Good joke 😂 Maximum in scy, without a single olympic medal, and was nowhere in 2021.

[@joachimmahoudeaux8619]

@@ferencorosz9753I’m french and I can’t agree more, metrics rules in Worlds and Olympics. At the end of the day only those medals count, only the WR in metrics count.

[@CoolcookieAud]

WORLD RECORD?!!!?