Budapest 2024, Day 5 Finals: Ilya Borodin Claims 400IM Title Ahead Of Foster & Razzetti
Ilya Borodin upgraded his 400IM silver from Abu Dhabi 2021 to gold at the short-course worlds in Budapest.
The neutral athlete went ahead at halfway and was never headed thereafter, coming home in 3:56.83 followed by Olympic bronze medallist Carson Foster (3:57.45) and Alberto Razzetti of Italy who clocked 3:58.83.
Borodin’s time was the second-fastest by a European man in history, behind only his own continental record of 3:56.47 – also the WJR – that secured him silver three years ago.
Daiya Seto missed the final by one place as a cracked rib ultimately proved too much to overcome and with that his bid for a seventh straight title was over.
The Japanese swimmer won the first of his six crowns at Istanbul 2012 when Borodin was nine with Ryan Lochte claiming the three titles prior to that with the pair sharing nine titles between them.
Lochte’s championship record of 3:55.50 set in Dubai in December 2010 lives to fight another day. An American record, it stands at second all-time behind only Seto’s WR of 3:54.81 from the ISL final in Las Vegas in December 2019.
