Twelve-year-old Winn Aung from the Redding Swim Team broke two 11-12 national age-group records this weekend at the Summer Sanders Long Course Invitational in Roseville, California.
The first record he broke was the 200m freestyle, clocking in at 2:00.11 in the prelim heats to take the eighth seed. With that swim he dropped over five seconds off his personal best time to set the new record, breaking it by 0.77 seconds.
Previously, the record was held by Matthew Hirschberger and set back in 2011. In finals, Aung was slower than his new record with a time of 2:01.30.
On the next day of competition he came within one second of the 50m freestyle national age-group record with a time of 25.72. His 200m fly however, was the swim of the morning. In that race, Aung dropped a 2:14.85 to qualify third for the finals. He was just off the national age-group record of 2:14.40 held by both Ryan Murphy (2008) and Seth Say Woon Chun (2013).
In finals, Aung took a sledgehammer to the record and absolutely obliterated it with a time of 2:12.91. That time earned him a second place finish overall at the meet, and took off a grand total of 1.49 seconds from Murphy and Chun’s prior record.
Aung currently holds three age-group records in the 10&under 50m free, 100m free, and 200m free, thus bringing his total to five long-course records after this weekend.
2.12.91 in the 200 fly at 12. 😆
Well.
Our fastest 12-year-old French boy so far this year swam 2.44.21.
Our NAG record for 12-year-old boys is 2.31.71.
The French have never been strong at the 200 fly. Too hard to swim on a belly full of wine and croissants 😉 And other things, if Leveaux is to be believed;)
Floppy, what image of France you have here! 😆 We are not all the same! I hate wine but I love croissants.
And Amaury Leveaux is a-father-to-be. He’s a man now! 🙂
Back to swimming, it’s the same with all events about our NAG records. Not only 200 fly.
And you are not very nice with our amazing history in that event! The great Franck Esposito! Mel Stewart knows him very well. I can name you a few other big names like . . . No, I can’t. Yes, we usually struggle in that event. And not only in that event. Unfortunately, it looks like 98% of the young French swimmers want to become sprinters.
I find the comment “Aung’s two records are the only long-course age-group marks broken in the 2015 year thus far” strange as they weren’t the only long course age group marks of the weekend. The author surely meant some qualifier along with that statement. 11-12 men’s records, maybe???
You’re right. Very strange comment.
LCM NAG records in 2015 so far:
BOYS
10 AND UNDER
Joshua Zuchowski 100 back/1.09.07 100 back/1.08.66
Ronald Dalmacio 100 back/1.08.13 50 back/30.95 100 back/1.07.40 200 IM/2.31.87
Andrew Rogers 100 fly/1.06.52 100 fly/1.05.98
11/12
Winn Aung 200 free/2.00.11 200 fly/2.12.91
13/14
Trey Freeman 200 free/1.53.31
15/16
Michael Andrew 100 breast/1.01.67
Reece Whitley 200 breast/2.12.92
GIRLS
10 AND UNDER
Miriam Sheehan 50 back/32.44 50 fly/30.43 50 back/32.30
Claire Tuggle 200 free/2.16.30
You have some fans. For a factual post, you already have two down arrows. Not sure what anyone can find wrong with that.
This is known as ransom for the glory! 😆
It looks like he’s 11 or 12 for at least 3 or 4 years. 😆
Seriously I believe he turns 13 in late July so still plenty of time to lower again a few NAG records.
Congrats.
Way to go Winn! This is going to be another great year for you!
Is there a race video of the 200 fly? I would love to watch Winn’s 200 fly.