2025-26 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Arshak Hambardzumyan

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Budapest, Hungary
  • High School Óbudai Árpád Gimnázium

Biography

2024-25:
  • Won the 1650 free (15:37.45) against UMass
  • Won the 500 free (4:34.16) against Delaware
  • Won the 500 free (4:30.79) and 1000 free (9:19.34) against Brown
  • Won the 500 free (4:33.74) and 1000 free (9:23.66) against Cornell
  • Secured gold in the 1000 free in a personal-best time of 8:51.82 at the Ivy League Championships
  • Had a silver-medal finished in the 1650 free in a personal-best and NCAA b cut time of 14:56.65 at the Ivy League Championships
  • First Team All-Ivy Honoree in the 1000 free
  • Second Team All-Ivy Honoree in the 1650 free

Before Yale: Swam for Újpesti Torna Egylet and the Hungarian national team… Junior world and European champion in open water… Second place in European Cup… Multiple time national champion.
 
Why Yale? “Because it is one of the most prestigious universities in the world where I will be able to continue doing the sport I love.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25First Year

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  • 2025-26Sophomore

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