2022 Pac-12 Men’s Championships: Leon Marchand Blasts 1:39 200 IM to win
Leon Marchand’s first college postseason experience is going quite well at the 2022 Pac-12 Men’s Championships.
Marchand defended his top seed in the 200 individual medley with aplomb, clocking in at 1:39.65. That’s a Pac-12 Championships record, chipping nearly a half-second off the record set in 2015 by Stanford’s David Nolan. It also booked a 1-2 finish for Arizona State, with Grant House, as the Sun Devils are making a podium charge through two days of the four-day meet.
The full results from the second evening session:
2022 Pac-12 Men’s Championships Links
2022 Pac-12 Men’s Championships Team Scores
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 8 1. Stanford University 333.5 2. Arizona State University 227.5 3. University of Arizona 201.5 4. Utah, University of 183 5. California University, Berkeley 181.5 6. Southern California, University 181
500 freestyle
Stanford’s Preston Forst pulled a moderate upset, going 4:12.06 to edge Brooks Fail by .08 in a sensational race. Forst built out an early lead, with Fail, who had the top seed entering the morning with a 4:10, stalking him the whole way. Forst came back in 50.29 for the final 100, with Fail in 48.61. But the cushion was too large to pull back.
Grant Shoults was third in 4:13.87 for Stanford. All the times were shy of the NCAA A standard, which Fail already holds.
Event 6 Men 500 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 4:06.32 2/19/2020 Kieran Smith, Florida
PAC-12: M 4:08.92 2009 Jean Basson, ARIZ
PAC-12 Champ: P 4:09.49 2021 Trenton Julian, CAL
4:11.62 A Standard
4:23.34 B Standard
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== A - Final ===
1 Forst, Preston SO STAN 4:13.83 4:12.06 B 20
r:+0.52 23.37 24.93 25.48 25.81
25.72 25.56 25.50 25.40
25.19 25.10
2 Fail, Brooks 5Y Arizona 4:14.83 4:12.14 B 17
r:+0.70 23.17 25.20 25.77 26.13
26.19 26.05 25.61 25.41
24.45 24.16
3 Shoults, Grant SR STAN 4:15.51 4:13.87 B 16
r:+0.63 22.97 25.35 25.92 25.99
25.98 25.66 25.70 25.59
25.38 25.33
4 Gray, Andrew JR ASU 4:15.64 4:14.51 B 15
r:+0.70 22.87 25.78 25.56 25.60
26.02 26.20 25.78 25.82
25.71 25.17
5 Matheson, Danie FR USC 4:15.77 4:14.87 B 14
r:+0.65 23.52 25.46 25.77 25.94
25.98 26.13 25.67 25.79
25.64 24.97
6 Grieshop, Sean SR CAL 4:15.73 4:15.21 B 13
r:+0.64 23.25 25.32 25.79 26.06
26.12 25.97 25.86 25.74
25.70 25.40
7 Johansson, Vict SR USC 4:15.34 4:16.97 B 12
r:+0.64 23.99 25.46 25.71 25.98
26.12 26.06 26.25 26.18
26.03 25.19
8 Matejka, Andrew JR STAN 4:15.39 4:18.31 B 11
r:+0.75 23.44 25.42 26.13 26.21
26.14 26.52 26.80 26.18
26.12 25.35
200 individual medley
Leon Marchand set the pace in the morning by nearly a second and stretched that margin at night. He was second to teammate Grant House after the opening butterfly leg but took the lead for good by going 24.89 in backstroke. The French Olympian brought it home in 23.80 to take a moderate lead and balloon it out to 1.01 seconds over House, who went 1:40.66. The times are the fastest and second-fastest in program history.
Stanford’s Ron Polonsky used a 28.63 breaststroke leg to get an A cut in 1:40.71. Destin Lasco of Cal was fourth.
Event 7 Men 200 Yard IM
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NCAA: N 1:38.13 2/15/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
PAC-12: M 1:38.14 2019 Andrew Seliskar, CAL
PAC-12 Champ: P 1:40.07 2015 Dave Nolan, STAN
1:41.34 A Standard
1:46.77 B Standard
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== A - Final ===
1 Marchand, Leon FR ASU 1:40.90 1:39.65PA 20
r:+0.55 22.05 24.89 28.91 23.80
2 House, Grant SR ASU 1:41.74 1:40.66 A 17
r:+0.62 21.43 25.33 29.50 24.40
3 Polonsky, Ron FR STAN 1:41.95 1:40.71 A 16
r:+0.64 22.40 25.07 28.63 24.61
4 Lasco, Destin SO CAL 1:42.07 1:41.70 B 15
r:+0.65 22.22 25.83 29.37 24.28
5 Louser, Jason JR CAL 1:42.19 1:41.76 B 14
r:+0.69 22.54 26.30 28.28 24.64
6 Affeld, Jonny SO STAN 1:42.52 1:42.56 B 13
r:+0.65 22.62 25.81 29.46 24.67
7 Gonzalez, Hugo SR CAL 1:42.04 1:43.14 B 12
r:+0.63 22.33 25.54 29.63 25.64
8 Mihm, Rick SO STAN 1:43.13 1:43.73 B 11
r:+0.53 22.99 26.02 30.10 24.62
50 freestyle
After a stellar morning swim of 18.86, Bjorn Seeliger matched it at night, the Cal sophomore going 18.84 to win the 50. It’s the lone A cut of the event, and it threatened the Pac-12 Championships record set in 2014 by Arizona’s Brad Tandy at 18.80.
Stanford freshman Andrei Minakov was second in 19.08, edging out the ASU duo of Jack Dolan (19.13) and Cody Bybee (19.17).
Event 8 Men 50 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
PAC-12: M 18.33 2021 Ryan Hoffer, CAL
PAC-12 Champ: P 18.80 2014 Brad Tandy, ARIZ
18.96 A Standard
19.96 B Standard
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== A - Final ===
1 Seeliger, Bjorn SO CAL 18.86 18.84 A 20
r:+0.53 9.00 9.84
2 Minakov, Andrei FR STAN 19.24 19.08 B 17
r:+0.61 9.16 9.92
3 Dolan, Jack JR ASU 19.33 19.13 B 16
r:+0.63 9.19 9.94
4 Bybee, Cody SR ASU 19.37 19.17 B 15
r:+0.59 9.16 10.01
5 Ercegovic, Mari SR Arizona 19.42 19.32 B 14
r:+0.67 9.22 10.10
6 Alexy, Jack FR CAL 19.47 19.35 B 13
r:+0.72 9.41 9.94
7 Combs, Tai SR Arizona 19.51 19.42 B 12
r:+0.56 9.33 10.09
8 Selin, Artem FR USC 19.45 19.54 B 11
r:+0.67 9.30 10.24
