The 2014 U.S. Winter Junior Nationals closed with a huge bang Saturday night, as athletes broke two National Age Group records and even one American record during the final session.
The American record came from Abbey Weitzeil, who crushed a 46.29 in the 100 free leading off the Canyons 400 free relay. You can view that race above, or at the bottom of this post. That’s the fastest 100 free in American history, and also stands up as the new 17-18 NAG record.
You can watch her individual leg plus a post-meet interview above, and can see the full 4×100 free relay below.
Other NAG records on night 3: Ryan Hoffer became the youngest man under 43 seconds in the 100 free, while Nitro’s Sean Grieshop broke the 1650 free record for 15-16s.
Below are all available race videos of A finals, plus the fastest-seeded heats of the 4×100 free relays.
You can find our full recap on night 4’s action here.
To see race videos from the B and C finals, plus awards presentations for each event, check out the USA Swimming YouTube page here.
Girls 200 back A final
Boys 200 back A final
Girls 100 free A final
Race video unavailable
Boys 100 free A final (including Ryan Hoffer‘s 15-16 NAG record from lane 4)
Girls 200 breast A final
Boys 200 breast A final
Race video not available
Girls 200 fly A final
Boys 200 fly A final
Girls 4×100 free relay (including Abbey Weitzeil‘s American record leading off in lane 8)
Boys 4×100 free relay – fastest-seeded heat
Race videos of the boys and girls 1650 frees were unavailable.
Bolles relay was within in the rules. Period. It was as close as it gets, but definitely legal by Fina rules. Congrats to them.
The bigger question is why is there no 200 breast boys A final video? Smells so rotten.
And once again Bolles somehow had the call overturned. Hmmmmm
It appears to me Bolles got away with a pretty serious false start on their guys 4×100 free relay heading into the anchor leg. The 3rd leg took an extra stroke but the anchor left anyway.