In the second-to-last swim of his 11-12 career, Destin Lasco has taken down a second National Age Group Record at the 2014 Middle Atlantic Long Course Junior Olympics.
He swam a 2:11.59 in the 200 meter backstroke, which breaks the National Age Group Record of 2:13.91 done by National Teamer and NCAA Champion Ryan Murphy roughly six years ago.
Lasco’s splits: 31.42/33.74/33.97/32.45.
This is another one of those swims, which we seem to be getting an increasing number of lately, that is simply a masterful, massive breaking of a record. As good as Murphy was at this age, Lasco skipped the 2:12’s altogether and took Murphy’s record down into the 2:11 range.
Coming into the meet, Lasco was second on the all-time list, and only .08 seconds behind Murphy. The two are now well ahead of Nitro’s Isaac Gwin, the third-fastest ever in the age group at 2:15.56, in this event.
Earlier in the weekend, Lasco also broke the National Age Group Record in the 400 IM.
Lasco ages up on August 7th, and has one more meet to go after records. The Eastern Zones meet begins August 6th, and for these records age is defined by the first date of the meet.
An unrelated fun fact: yesterday at TAGS 2 10 yo boys on 50 free had to do 3 swim offs until finally one of them won spot in A final. Has that ever happen before?
Luke Gwin won 13-14 200 back @ 2014 Tags 2 days ago with 2:09.37. Isaac, his twin brother, was second with 2:11.02.
If his coach could also post the 400 IM, I’m more than interested.
It’s my favorite swimming event.
Thanks.
Race video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeXoyR2XfA&list=UUaGz9JSPHTVGCupLwV1cqgg
I was sure he was gonna smash that record.
What a talent!
And what is even more impressive is that he crushed that record after swimming a lot of meters before. I know these youngsters recover very fast but it’s still impressive.
Recap of his meet.
Day 1
200 IM prelims/ 200 IM final in 2.15.79. 0.37s off the NAG record
100 free prelims/ 100 free final in 56.29. 0.84s off the NAG record
Day 2
100 back prelims/100 back final in 1.00.52. 0.19s off the NAG record
50 fly prelims/ 50 fly final in 28.10
400 free final in 4.28.05
Day 3
200 free prelims/200 free final… Read more »
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeXoyR2XfA
Call me old, but this time would have finaled at the 1968 mexico city Olympics, faster than Gary Hall and just under a second off the silver medal time of Mitch Ivey.