Andrew Seliskar Scorches 200 Fly to Set World Junior Record at Junior Pan Pacs

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott

MAUI, Hawaii, August 27.

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USA’s Andrew Seliskar rocketed his way to a World Junior Record in the men’s 200-meter fly as he also shattered his own meet record in the event tonight.  Seliskar scorched the finale in 1:55.92, lowering the World Junior Record of 1:55.95 set by Hungary’s Tamas Kenderesi at the Youth Olympic Games last week.  That’s not the fastest 18-and-under swim ever, as Michael Phelps has the 17-18 national age group record in the U.S. with a 1:53.93 from 2003, but FINA only just started recognizing World Junior Records this year.

Meanwhile, Selisker also took down his meet record of 1:56.65 from prelims that lowered the 1:57.40 from Kenta Hirai in 2012. His time ranks him 12th in the world this year.

Japan’s Yuya Yajima took second in 1:58.30, while USA’s Corey Okubo earned third in 1:59.23 as the only other sub-2:00 swimmer of the night.

Australia’s Jacob Hansford (2:00.02), New Zealand’s Bradlee Ashby (2:01.53), Australia’s Joachim Bardrum (2:02.37), Canada’s Osvald Nitski (2:02.42) and Japan’s Junya Higuchi (2:02.59) rounded out the rest of the finale.

Australia’s Dominic Richardson won the B final going away in 2:00.65, while Canada’s Nicolaas Dekker placed second in 2:02.08.  Japan’s Yuya Sakamoto snared third in 2:03.02.

USA’s Grant Shoults (2:03.26), New Zealand’s Liam Albery (2:03.58), Canada’s Robert Hill (2:03.96), China’s Chen Chaoqi (2:04.92) and Mexico’s Hector Rubalcaba (2:05.30) finished fourth through eighth.

Results

 Event 6  Men 200 LC Meter Butterfly
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  Jr. Pan Pac: M 1:56.65  08/27/2014Andrew Seliskar, USA
    Name           Year Team              Prelims     Finals  FINA Points
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                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Seliskar, Andre  96 USA-              1:56.65    1:55.92M  890    9  
    r:+0.65  26.62        55.97 (29.35)
        1:25.23 (29.26)     1:55.92 (30.69)
  2 Yajima, Yuya     96 Japan-            1:58.23    1:58.30   837    7  
    r:+0.80  26.15        55.46 (29.31)
        1:25.54 (30.08)     1:58.30 (32.76)
  3 Okubo, Corey     95 USA-              1:59.42    1:59.23   818    6  
    r:+0.64  26.92        56.82 (29.90)
        1:27.88 (31.06)     1:59.23 (31.35)
  4 HANSFORD, JACOB  95 AUS-              2:00.23    2:00.02   802    5  
    r:+0.71  26.56        57.68 (31.12)
        1:28.85 (31.17)     2:00.02 (31.17)
  5 Ashby, Bradlee   95 New Zealand-      2:02.09    2:01.53   772    4  
    r:+0.73  26.56        57.90 (31.34)
        1:29.05 (31.15)     2:01.53 (32.48)
  6 BARDRUM, JOACHI  96 AUS-              2:01.72    2:02.37   756    3  
    r:+0.74  27.44        58.34 (30.90)
        1:30.19 (31.85)     2:02.37 (32.18)
  7 Nitski, Osvald   97 Canada-           2:02.14    2:02.42   755    2  
    r:+0.72  27.65        59.38 (31.73)
        1:30.99 (31.61)     2:02.42 (31.43)
  8 Higuchi, Junya   97 Japan-            2:02.33    2:02.59   752    1  
    r:+0.67  27.05        59.19 (32.14)
        1:30.78 (31.59)     2:02.59 (31.81)
 
                            === B - Final ===                            
 
  9 Richardson, Dom  97 AUS-              2:02.05    2:00.65   789  
    r:+0.74  27.10        57.60 (30.50)
        1:29.33 (31.73)     2:00.65 (31.32)
 10 Dekker, Nicolaa  95 Canada-           2:02.96    2:02.08   762  
    r:+0.69  26.90        58.31 (31.41)
        1:30.28 (31.97)     2:02.08 (31.80)
 11 Sakamoto, Yuya   99 Japan-            2:02.99    2:03.02   744  
    r:+0.85  27.93        58.81 (30.88)
        1:31.37 (32.56)     2:03.02 (31.65)
 12 Shoults, Grant   97 USA-              2:06.87    2:03.26   740  
    r:+0.64  27.28        59.24 (31.96)
        1:31.14 (31.90)     2:03.26 (32.12)
 13 Albery, Liam     96 New Zealand-      2:03.01    2:03.58   734  
    r:+0.71  27.26        58.83 (31.57)
        1:31.02 (32.19)     2:03.58 (32.56)
 14 Hill, Robert     96 Canada-           2:04.02    2:03.96   727  
    r:+0.74  27.83        59.26 (31.43)
        1:31.24 (31.98)     2:03.96 (32.72)
 15 Chen, Chaoqi     99 China-            2:05.38    2:04.92   711  
    r:+0.67  28.12        59.81 (31.69)
        1:32.82 (33.01)     2:04.92 (32.10)
 16 Rubalcaba, Hect  97 Mexico-           2:04.87    2:05.30   704  
    r:+0.75  27.81        59.78 (31.97)
        1:32.59 (32.81)     2:05.30 (32.71)

 

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