By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
The final update, having already looked at the 400 IM add-ups for men and women and the 800 IM add-up for women so far, sees us look at the men’s 800 IM add-ups.
The race for top spot is much tighter than on the women’s side, with just two-tenths of a second separating Michael Phelps and Leon Marchand here. It is the former who takes it, with big advantages in back and free just making up for Marchand’s 5.55 second advantage on breast. Phelps was no slouch in that discipline though – his 2:11.30 ranks him just outside the top-200 all-time.
It would be ill-advised to expect the American to be on top for long however. Leon Marchand swam 3:44.70 in the 400 free at the U.S. Open a month ago, which should correspond to a far faster 200 free time than the 1:46.44 he posted two and a half years ago.
Behind those two is a huge gap, with Carson Foster nearly nine seconds back in third. He beats out Laszlo Cseh for the final podium spot by a single hundredth, with the two separated by less than a second in all four 200s. Daiya Seto joins them under 7:50.00, albeit with a far faster breaststroke of 2:09.88, second-fastest of anyone in the top-20.
Chad le Clos just misses the top ten despite a 2:20.83 200 breaststroke, as his 1:52-point speed on fly and 1:45-point speed on free make up for it. That is the slowest breaststroke swim of anyone on the list by three seconds.
Every swimmer on this list is an elite 400 IM swimmer. The slowest, Jeremy Desplanches, has a best of 4:12.86 in the event, and only four swimmers here rank outside the top-50 in history – those are Seliskar (4:16.51), Desplanches (4:12.86), Chad le Clos (4:12.24), and Gunnar Bentz (4:11.66).
Thiago Pereira looks to have made his way onto the list via the most egalitarian route, with no true elite time among the four disciplines. He was a consistent finalist in the IM in the late 200s and early 2010s, winning Olympic silver at the London 2012 Games.
William Petric could be one to watch moving up. He set three of his best times (free, back, fly) last year, more than anyone else did.
A massive 40% of swimmers on the list are from the U.S., with no other country putting more than two into the top-20. There are 22 seconds between 1st and 2oth, albeit nine second of that gap come between Marchand/Phelps and everyone else.
In total, nine of the top 20 swimmers from the 400 IM add-up make the list here as well. Eight of those are world or Olympic medalists in the 200 IM or 400 IM – Andrew Seliskar is the odd man out, coming in 17th here after being 15th in the shorter distances. He never swam an individual event at a World Championships or Olympic Games for the U.S..
If you find a swimmer who is fast enough to have made the top 20 but is missing, let us know in the comments below.
MEN’S TOP 20 – 800 IM ADD-UP
Rank Swimmer Fly Back Breast Free Total 1 Michael Phelps 1:51.51 1:54.65 2:11.30 1:42.96 7:40.42 2 Leon Marchand 1:51.21 1:57.14 2:05.85 1:46.44 7:40.64 3 Carson Foster 1:53.67 1:55.86 2:14.31 1:45.45 7:49.29 4 Laszlo Cseh 1:52.70 1:56.69 2:14.13 1:45.78 7:49.30 5 Daiya Seto 1:52.53 1:59.50 2:09.88 1:47.71 7:49.62 6 Tyler Clary 1:54.42 1:53.41 2:15.43 1:47.66 7:50.92 7 Kosuke Hagino 1:58.69 1:54.23 2:13.81 1:45.23 7:51.96 8 Thiago Pereira 1:58.27 1:57.19 2:10.79 1:46.57 7:52.82 9 Chase Kalisz 1:54.79 1:59.69 2:09.90 1:49.98 7:54.36 10 Lewis Clareburt 1:55.24 1:58.79 2:14.10 1:47.18 7:55.31 11 Chad Le Clos 1:52.96 1:57.81 2:20.83 1:45.20 7:56.80 12 William Petric 1:57.94 2:00.72 2:12.51 1:47.00 7:58.17 13 Ryan Lochte 2:01.19 1:52.96 2:19.82 1:44.44 7:58.41 14 David Verraszto 1:56.97 1:59.90 2:12.36 1:49.64 7:58.87 15 Wang Shun 1:56.70 1:58.68 2:17.84 1:45.71 7:58.93 16 Andrew Seliskar 1:55.92 2:05.15 2:12.82 1:45.70 7:59.59 17 Jeremy Desplanches 2:00.61 1:57.58 2:11.81 1:49.62 7:59.62 18 Jay Litherland 1:57.65 1:57.16 2:17.73 1:47.58 8:00.12 19 Alberto Razzetti 1:54.47 2:04.33 2:14.91 1:47.99 8:01.70 20 Gunnar Bentz 1:55.28 2:06.87 2:12.88 1:47.33 8:02.36Swimmers Who Narrowly Missed Out:
Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Ous Mellouli, and Thomas Ceccon missed out by less than three-tenths of a second in 8:02.58, 8:02.59, and 8:02.64 respectively. Ceccon took top spot in the 400IM add-up, but is sunk by a 2:20.88 200 breaststroke swim. Mellouli, despite being best known for the 800free and 1500 free, is also the African Record holder in the 400 IM in both long and short course. There is more elite 400 IM talent just outside the list, in the form of Max Litchfield (8:04.50), Brendon Smith (8:06.61), and Duncan Scott (8:11.56). Scott has just a 2:27.83 200 breast – given he is a 1:01-point swimmer in the 100, he could easily crack the top 20 with a more recent swim there. James Guy is a slightly surprising name near the list, without ever having swum IM at an elite level. He is actually above Scott with his 8:08.60, with a 2:22.90 200 breast nearly five seconds faster than his British teammate. Jack Conger and Kristof Milak are the top swimmers missing a breaststroke swim. Conger is slightly ahead after fly, back, and free in 5:35.71 to the Hungarian’s 5:35.83 – a 2:26-point 200 breast would have been enough to crack the list for both.Read the full story on SwimSwam: The Male Swimmers With The Fastest Four-Stroke 800 IM Add-Ups – 2026 Version
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