4 × 100 m freestyle relay, men, 25 m pool

What to remember

Budapest, December 10, 2024: at the short course World Championships, four Americans chained their 100 m freestyle legs and finished the relay in 3 min 01.66 s. The time belongs to the 25-metre pool records, which World Aquatics ratifies separately.

Jack Alexy led off in 45.05, the fastest leg of the team. Luke Hobson followed in 45.18, Kieran Smith in 46.01, and Chris Guiliano closed in 45.42. Alexy, born in 2003, had represented the United States at the Paris Olympics earlier that year.

The men's 4 × 100 m freestyle has had an uneven Olympic history. Held at the Games from 1964, it was dropped from the 1976 programme and brought back in 1984. The women's event has been Olympic since 1912. At the World Aquatics Championships, the men's and women's relays date back to 1973, and a mixed version was added in 2015 before being removed from the 2027 programme. In short course, both the men's and the women's records belong to the United States.