2024 PACIFIC SWIMMING FAR WESTERN CHAMPS
- April 4-8, 2024
- Pleasanton, CA
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Cell “Pacific Swimming SC Far Western Champs”
Two weeks out from his fifteenth birthday, Luka Mijatovic is taking another (probably remaining?) run on the Nationwide Age Group Document books this weekend on the Pacific Swimming Far Western Swimming Championships.
On Saturday, that netted him a 4:14.83 within the 500 free, which takes virtually a second off his personal Nationwide Age Group Document of 4:15.71 that he set late final 12 months.
Mijatovic is now practically ten seconds sooner than the nex-tfastest 500 yard freestyler in 13-14 historical past. Lleyton Plattel swam 4:24.79 in 2017. Mijatovic has been below that point 9 instances in his profession, together with a 4:19.27 in prelims on Saturday.
Mijatovic was aggressive in beginning his new record-setting swim: he was 1.6 seconds forward of document tempo on the 200. Whereas that price him some back-end pace, the web was more-than-enough to beat the document.
Splits Comparability:
| Luka Mijatovic | Luka Mijatovic | |
| December 2023 NAG Document | ||
| 50y | 23.06 | 23.74 |
| 100y | 25.37 (48.43) | 25.68 (49.42) |
| 150y | 25.79 | 26.07 |
| 200y | 25.96 (51.75) | 26.26 (52.33) |
| 250y | 26.09 | 25.99 |
| 300y | 25.94 (52.03) | 26.01 (52.00) |
| 350y | 26.02 | 25.93 |
| 400y | 25.78 (51.80) | 25.86 (51.79) |
| 450y | 25.83 | 25.38 |
| 500y | 24.99 (50.82) | 24.79 (50.17) |
| Last Time | 4:14.83 | 4:15.71 |
The five hundred free is one in all 4 races thus far this week for Mijatovic. He additionally picked up wins within the 200 free (1:35.39), 200 IM (1:49.22), and 200 again (1:48.29), of which solely the 200 free was a lifetime greatest. He’s nonetheless scheduled to swim the 400 IM, 200 fly, and 1000 free on Sunday.
Mijatovic turns 15 on April 22, however he’s now already sooner than Drew Kibler‘s 15-16 Nationwide Age Group Document of 4:15.36 within the 500 free. Even at simply 14-years outdated, Mijatovic’s time on Saturday would have positioned him twenty second on the NCAA Championship meet per week in the past. Mijatovic’s time has “jumped” an age group, which is often see on the women’ aspect (Katie Ledecky for an instance), however which may be very uncommon in boys swimming.
Mijatovic presently holds 13-14 Nationwide Age Group Data within the 500 free (4:14.83), 1000 free (8:46.50), 1650 free (14:45.79), and 400 IM (3:49.32) in brief course. In lengthy course, he holds data within the 200 free (1:49.63), 400 free (3:51.18), 800 free (7:59.64), 1500 free (15:26.73), and 400 IM (4:24.20).