{"id":584110,"date":"2024-04-12T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=584110"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:33:13","slug":"casper-puggaard-national-record-highlights-youth-speed-at-danish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/casper-puggaard-national-record-highlights-youth-speed-at-danish-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Puggaard National Record Highlights Youth Speed at Danish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casper Puggaard National Record Highlights Youth Speed at Danish Open<\/strong><\/p>\n

Casper Puggaard<\/strong> started the four-day Danish Open on Thursday by taking down a Danish record set when he was just four years old, the start of a fast opening two days at the meet for Denmark\u2019s up-and-coming generation of swimmers.<\/p>\n

Puggaard, 19, led off prelims by going 51.87 in the men\u2019s 100 butterfly at the Bellahoj Svommestadion. That erases the national mark set 15 years and one day prior by Jakob Andkjaer<\/strong> at 52.09. Puggaard had been 52.30 at the World Junior Championships last year, the Danish junior record.<\/p>\n

He was unable to improve the time in finals, going 52.23 at night, still 1.23 seconds clear of runner-up Rasmus Nickelsen.<\/strong> His 51.87 is an Olympic consideration cut, shy of the A cut of 51.67.<\/p>\n