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Rex Maurer Blasts a 4:13.17 to Win the 400 IM in Irvine; Rockets to #21 All-time US Performer


2024 Speedo Summer season Championships

WEDNESDAY EVENING HEAT SHEETS

Males’s 400m Particular person Medley – finals

  • World: 4:02.50 – Leon Marchand, FRA
  • American: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps, USA
  • US Open: 4:05.25 – Michael Phelps, Membership Wolverine
  • Jr World: 4:10.02 – Ilia Borodin, RUS

Podium:

  1. Rex Maurer, UNAT – 4:13.17
  2. Ryan Healy, MICH – 4:18.94
  3. Jake Magahey, SA – 4:19.69
  4. Levi Sandidge, KYA – 4:20.43
  5. Ryan Merani, KYA – 4:20.90
  6. Grant Sanders, FAST – 4:22.41
  7. AJ Robinson, AGS – 4:25.79
  8. Luka Mijatovic, PLS – 4:25.97

Rex Maurer, formally swimming unattached however sporting a Texas Longhorns cap, ripped a 4:13.17 within the 400 IM ultimate on the 2024 Speedo Summer season Nationals to turn into the Twenty first-fastest U.S. performer of all time.

It was an enormous swim for the 19-year-old, who’s transferring to the College of Texas in August after having spent his freshman 12 months at Stanford. Maurer’s lifetime finest coming into the meet was a 4:19.10 from final summer time’s 2023 TYR Professional Championships in Irvine. And that was a PB by 3.4 seconds, as he had come into the meet with a lifetime better of 4:22.51.

This 12 months, swimming in the identical pool, he clocked a 4:18.72 in prelims and a 4:13.17 in finals, crushing his outdated private file by almost 6 seconds. Within the final 12 months, Maurer has dropped 4.14 on his breaststroke leg and 1.85 on the free, whereas the entrance half of his race has remained roughly unchanged.

2023 TYR Professional 2024 Speedo Summer season Champs prelims 2024 Speedo Summer season Champs finals
50 26.75 26.86 26.66
100 57.37 (30.62) 58.04 (31.18) 57.19 (30.53)
150 1:30.10 (32.73) 1:31.40 (33.36) 1:30.01 (32.82)
200 2:01.94 (31.84) 2:04.17 (32.77) 2:02.00 (31.99)
250 2:40.79 (38.85) 2:41.27 (37.10) 2:39.21 (37.21)
300 3:20.30 (39.51) 3:19.37 (38.10) 3:16.22 (37.01)
350 3:50.41 (30.11) 3:49.23 (29.86) 3:45.29 (29.07)
400 4:19.10 (28.69) 4:18.72 (29.49) 4:13.17 (27.88)

Maurer will transfer to Austin in August, the place he’ll be a part of among the finest IMers on the earth coaching with Bob Bowman.

All-Time U.S. Performers

Rank Time Swimmer Age LSC Staff Meet
1 4:03.84 Michael Phelps 23 MI Unattached 2008 Olympic Video games
2 4:05.18 Ryan Lochte 27 FL Daytona Seashore Swimming 2012 Olympic Video games
3 4:05.90 Chase Kalisz 23 GA Unattached 2017 World Champs
4 4:06.56 Carson Foster 21 OH Mason Manta Rays 2023 World Champs
5 4:06.96 Tyler Clary 20 MI Membership Wolverine 2009 Summer season Nationals
6 4:09.22 Jay Litherland 23 GA Dynamo Swim Membership 2019 World Champs
7 4:09.55 Bobby Finke 23 FL Saint Petersburg Aquatics 2023 Phillips 66 Nationwide Championships
8 4:11.27 Erik Vendt 21 US Unattached 2002 Summer season Nationals
9 4:11.45 Kevin Vargas 21 CA La Mirada Armada 2022 Phillips 66 Summer season Nationals
10 4:11.46 Charlie Swanson 21 MI Membership Wolverine 2019 Pan Am Video games
11 4:11.66 Gunnar Bentz 21 GA Athens Bulldog Swim Membership 2017 Summer season Nationals
12 4:11.76 Tom Dolan 25 US Unattached 2000 Olympic Video games
13 4:12.00 Michael Weiss 22 WI Unattached 2013 WUGS
14 4:12.48 Alex Vanderkaay 23 MI Membership Wolverine 2009 WUGS
15 4:12.51 David Johnston 22 CA The Swim Staff 2024 World Champs
16 4:12.58 Jack Brown 21 AZ Tucson Ford Sellers Aquatics 2009 U. S. Open
17 4:12.72 Sean Grieshop 19 PC California Aquatics 2018 Summer season Nationals
18 4:12.92 Robert Margalis 24 FL Saint Petersburg Aquatics 2006 Summer season Nationals
19 4:12.94 Pat Mellors 21 AM Jewish Group Ctr Sailfish 2007 WUGS
20 4:13.15 Josh Prenot 21 PC Unattached XXVIII Universiade
21 4:13.17 Rex Maurer 19 CA Unattached 2024 Speedo Summer season Championships

 

 



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