Cole similarly started his weekend with a record-setting time, pulling away from the competition to win the 500-yard freestyle in 4:20.11—four seconds ahead of the pack.

On Friday, Cole approached his own 1000-yard freestyle meet record—ultimately falling three seconds short of breaking it—while handily defeating his competitors by over five and a half seconds.

However, his most interesting performance came during Saturday’s opening event—the 1650-yard freestyle.

Winning handily, Cole stopped on two separate occasions to tear off his cap and wipe his goggles clean.

Although he touched the wall first, the margin of victory was not as great as Cole usually posts, as he edged out his nearest competitor by only half a second.

The Crimson placed four swimmers in the top eight in both the 1000-yard and 1650-yard freestyle finals.

Seniors Andrew McConnell and Ben Hanley and freshman Billy Gray supplemented Cole’s victories with solid finishes of their own, bolstering the Harvard attack.

On the diving boards, junior Enrique Roy brushed aside the competition, winning both the 1-meter and 3-meter events with 306.60 and 528.60 points respectively.

In the 1-meter event, freshman Danil Rybalko took second with 302.25 points.

“It really came down to just everyone performing and everyone scoring,” Rybalko said. “Going into the last night, Enrique knew that he needed to get at least a top three [finish] to make sure we had the lead at the end of the night. He came through.”

The Crimson victory came without a win in a single relay. Previously, Harvard had lost the H-Y-P and last year’s EISL Championship on relay events.

But on this occasion, individual victories and top-eight finishes simply overwhelmed Princeton by meet’s end, leaving the Crimson victorious.

—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.