{"id":391588,"date":"2019-08-06T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=391588"},"modified":"2019-08-23T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:39:37","slug":"zumo-performance-of-the-week-carson-foster-breaks-world-junior-record-ranks-11th-in-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/zumo-performance-of-the-week-carson-foster-breaks-world-junior-record-ranks-11th-in-world\/","title":{"rendered":"ZUMO Performance of the Week: Carson Foster Breaks World Junior Record; Ranks 11th in World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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17-year-old\u00a0Carson Foster\u00a0<\/strong>of the Mason Manta Rays broke the world junior record in the 400 IM at the 2019 Phillips 66 USA Swimming Nationals. Foster swam a 4:13.39 to lower the record of 4:14.00 that fellow American Sean Grieshop\u00a0<\/strong>set in 2016 at the US Olympic Trials. Foster finished in second place on Friday at the US Nationals in Palo Alto, California as he was run down by\u00a0Bobby Finke\u00a0<\/strong>in the final 50.<\/p>\n

Finke won the National title at 4:13.15.<\/p>\n

Foster moved up to 11th in the world for 2019 as he is the third fastest American this year in the 400 IM behind Worlds silver medalist Jay Litherland\u00a0<\/strong>(4:09.22) and Finke. Foster also now sits fourth all-time in the 17-18 NAG rankings. World junior records only started being kept in 2014 so any quicker prior 18 and under times do not count as world junior records.<\/p>\n

Foster was recently announced as\u00a0Swimming World’s\u00a0<\/em>High School Swimmer of the Year<\/a> in a tie with\u00a0Gianluca Urlando<\/strong>. Foster will be a freshman at the University of Texas in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n