Mitch Larkin Cruises to The Speedo Performance of the Week

PHOENIX – Several top athletes around the world raced last weekend, giving us a preview of what’s to come for the short course world championships in Qatar. Mitch Larkin made it known that he’s going to be a major backstroke presence when the meet kicks off next month, thanks to some stellar swimming at the Australian short course championships.

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Larkin has been a better swimmer in the 200 backstroke, though his 100 back is coming along very well in 2014. After winning silver in the 100 back at the Commonwealth Games, Larkin is looking for gold at worlds. In Adelaide last week, he challenged Nick Thoman’s world record of 48.94 not once, but twice. In the 100 back semis, he went 49.94 to seriously threaten the record. The following day in finals, he missed by a hand’s length with a 49.25. Though it was not fast enough to break into the top 10 performances of all time, it is the third-fastest swim in a textile suit, behind two by Russia’s Stanislav Donets from 2010.

Larkin called the time “amazing” and I’m sure he’s hard at work to figure out how he can find those additional 32 hundredths of a second in order to call himself a world record holder. At least for now, Mitch, you can claim the Speedo Performance of the Week.

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