By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
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MEN’S 400-METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINALS
- World Record: 4:02.50 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2023)
- World Junior Record: 4:10.02 – Ilya Borodin, RUS (2021)
Olympic Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)- 2021 Winning Time: 4:09.42 – Chase Kalisz, USA
- 2021 Bronze Medal Time: 4:10.38
- Leon Marchand (France) – 4:02.95 OLYMPIC RECORD
- Tomoyuki Matsushita (Japan) – 4:08.62
- Carson Foster (USA) – 4:08.66
- Max Litchfield (Great Britain) – 4:08.85
- Alberto Razzetti (Italy) – 4:09.38
- Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand) – 4:10.44
- Daiya Seto (Japan) – 4:11.78
- Cedric Buessing (Germany) – 4:17.16
Leon Marchand swam to another record in the LCM men’s 400 IM, this time breaking the Olympic Record swimming to a 4:02.95. Marchand broke the previous record of a 4:03.84 set by Michael Phelps to win in 2008 in Beijing.
Phelps’ Olympic Record was the former World Record until Marchand broke that record swimming a 4:02.50 at the 2023 World Championships.
Split Comparison:
| Leon Marchand– 2024 Olympics | LEON MARCHAND, 2023 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||
| Fly | 54.32 | 54.66 | 54.92 |
| Back | 1:02.44 | 1:01.98 | 1:01.57 |
| Breast | 1:07.48 | 1:07.64 | 1:10.56 |
| Free | 58.71 | 58.22 | 56.79 |
| Total | 4:02.95 | 4:02.50 | 4:03.84 |
Marchand was out faster today on the butterfly leg and was also slightly faster on the breaststroke leg, bodeing well for his potential in the 200 fly and 200 breaststroke later this week. He was about half a second slower on both the backstroke and freestyle legs today than he was a year ago.
Comparing Marchand to Phelps, Marchand is significantly faster on the breaststroke leg but Phelps holds a faster freestyle leg by over a second and a half.
The swim also marked Marchand’s first Olympic medal. He represented France in Tokyo and made the final of the 400 IM but finished 6th in the race with a 4:11.16.
Read the full story on SwimSwam: Leon Marchand Breaks Michael Phelps’ Olympic Record With 4:02.95 400 IM