Men's 200 Fly (Marchand, 1:53.0) - 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open

Top 8:

Leon Marchand (TXLA)- 1:53.08
Carson Foster (TXLA)- 1:55.09
Mitchell Schott (PRIN)- 1:56.41
Seb Lunak (NCAC)- 2:01.26
Noah Stotler (BSS)- 2:02.09
Grant Sanders (SPA)- 2:02.54
Arthur Balva (PRIN)- 2:03.40
Felix Vicknair (WVU)- 2:05.74

Marchand did Marchand things, appearing to cruise to the world-leading time in the men’s 200 fly in 1:53.08, making his prelims time of 1:56.80 look like a warm-up swim. This swim marks the first time we will see Marchand this week, as he swims his exact lineup from the Paris 2024 Olympics, where he won four gold medals.

His training mate Carson Foster stayed well with Marchand for the first 100 meters but could not stay up long enough, falling a bit back, still managing to swim more than two seconds faster than his prelims swim in 1:55.09.

Princeton’s Mitchell Schott clocked a near lifetime best (1:55.86) to finish 3rd, a near five seconds ahead of the rest of the field in 3rd in 1:56.41.