4 × 50 m medley relay, men, 25 m pool

What to remember

Four swimmers, four strokes, 50 metres each: at the short course World Championships in Melbourne on December 17, 2022, Italy covered the 4 × 50 m medley relay in 1 min 29.72 s. World Aquatics recognises this event only in a 25-metre pool.

The order of strokes is fixed. Backstroke goes first, because that leg starts in the water rather than with a dive, and Lorenzo Mora swam it in 22.65. Nicolò Martinenghi followed with the breaststroke in 24.95, then Matteo Rivolta with the butterfly in 21.60. Leonardo Deplano brought it home in freestyle in 20.52, the fastest of the four legs. Mora, a backstroker, also took silver in the 100 m backstroke at the 2022 World Short Course Championships.

The 4 × 50 m medley relay is a young event: the men's, women's and mixed races were first contested at the short course World Championships in 2014. The men's and women's relays were then removed from the 2024 programme, leaving only the mixed version on the schedule.