Brazilian 18-year old Guilherme Pereira da Costa has broken the South American Record in the 1500 free by 3 seconds on Saturday, swimming in a regional tournament in São Paulo.
Swimming in the Unisanta Pool, Costa swam a 15:05.23. That broke the old Brazilian mark, owned by fellow teenager Bradnonn Almeida at 15:11.70; as well as the South American mark, owned by Ecuador’s Esteban Enderica at 15:08.57. Almeida’s time was swum at the 2015 Pan American Games, while Enderica’s was done a the 2016 South American Championships.
Costa was out in 8:01 – which is already just 4 seconds short of the South American Record in that race of 7:57.60. Costa will swim the 800 free later in the meet.
| Running Split | 100m Split | |
| 100 | 58.58 | |
| 200 | 1:58.94 | 1:00.36 |
| 300 | 2:59.36 | 1:00.42 |
| 400 | 3:59.74 | 1:00.38 |
| 500 | 5:00.05 | 1:00.31 |
| 600 | 6:00.36 | 1:00.31 |
| 700 | 7:00.59 | 1:00.23 |
| 800 | 8:01.41 | 1:00.82 |
| 900 | 9:02.13 | 1:00.72 |
| 1000 | 10:03.14 | 1:01.01 |
| 1100 | 11:04.02 | 1:00.88 |
| 1200 | 12:05.04 | 1:01.02 |
| 1300 | 13:06.01 | 1:00.97 |
| 1400 | 14:06.88 | 1:00.87 |
| 1500 | 15:05.23 | 58.35 |