Michael Andrew had a great day 4 at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships, adding a meet record in the 50 back to a two-medal day.
Andrew shaved the championship record in the 50 back by the narrowest of margins, going 25.13 after first setting the record to a 25.14 out of the morning heats a day earlier.
Prior to prelims, the meet record was a 25.44 from Grigory Tarasevich, meaning Andrew has now taken .31 seconds off the mark.
The swim would hold up as Andrew’s first gold medal of the competition and his second medal total. Andrew was also on the silver medal-winning mixed medley relay on day 2.
That 25.13 sits just .04 seconds off the junior world record held by Youth Olympic Games champ Evgeny Rylov of Russia. Rylov went 25.09 at that meet in 2014. Andrew, just 16, has about two and a half years left to chase that record per FINA’s system of determining age eligibility. Andrew doesn’t turn 19 until spring of 2018, meaning he has 2016 and 2017 still eligible for junior world records.
That 50 back was one of three swims for Andrew on day 4, all 50-meter events. He nabbed the silver medal in the 50 free final behind Australian age group star Kyle Chalmers and also took the top qualifying spot in semifinals of the 50 fly.
maxime rooney?
He is obviously very talented, but next year at Trials and Olympics, there is NO 50’s of the strokes. He needs to step up his training for the 100’s if he wants to swim with the big boys….
Plus prelims-semis-finals for 100’s and 200’s, and probably won’t be able to slack off too much in prelims lest he doesn’t place in the top 16. Certainly semis will have to be all-out efforts. USRPT seems great for 50’s, but I think he will need some endurance if he’s serious about making the Olympics.
MA hasn’t had a problem with big meet schedules as long as he doesn’t have 5 events in the same night. He will be in top form at Olympic trails and won’t have trouble managing the schedule. Whether his times will be low enough by then is a different question. Olympic trials add more swims with semi’s but MA’s probable line up is fantastic. This is Michael Anderw’s maximum schedule. I can’t see him doing more than 50 free, all 4 100’s, and 200 IM. For multiple event nights I included the times from the 2012 trials timeline. I included everything possible even the 100 free final which I don’t think he’ll make but its in there. The only choice… Read more »
25.09 set By Evgeny Rylov not Sedov!!
Good catch. Updated.
back to a distance Gorp can handle…
This is crazy fast. The fastest time ever recorded by a Junior was 25.04 from Ryan Murphy a week before he turned 18. He did at the same meet that he went 53.38.
Seems like this event improved while he was in South Africa. I want to know how he improved it.
It seems like he somehow improved this event while in South Africa. Can someone ask if he did something there specific to this event? I want to know how he improved this event.
he improved in every single event, and i guess it was training
No – I think 50 Bk was the only event he improved in while in South Africa. I have no idea what you are talking about.