Vinny Marciano, a 12-year old from Morris County, New Jersey, has broken the National Age Group Record in the 100 yard backstroke, breaking his own record of 53.26 set earlier this year by going 52.47. Marciano is swimming at the 2014 New Jersey Swimming Junior Olympics hosted by the Berkeley Aquatic Club.
Marciano, in January, broke this record twice in one day, and has now blown eight-tenths of a second off of it again.
Jan. Morning splits: 26.02 – 27.41 = 53.43
Jan. Evening splits: 25.77 – 27.49 = 53.26
New Record splits: 25.60 – 26.87 = 52.47
Marciano is getting closer-and-closer to even-splitting this race, now being split by only 1.2 seconds between 50’s. He’ll still have a couple of months of racing left before he ages up in early May, but if he hits a bit of a growth spurt and can pour on the front-end speed, we could see him continue to ‘pop’ in the next year.
Marciano also swam a 53.85 in the 100 fly on Friday night.
Full, live meet results available here.
Destin just went. 52.32 100 back. Last nite did 1:46+ 200 free before 299. That is the way we do things over hear swim lots of events.
I remember when I was growing up in the late 80s, a 0:52 100 yard back for a FOURTEEN
year old was rare. Now we got a 12 year old doing it.
Scary fact. Vinny’s 100 back is significantly faster than Michael Phelps 100 back as a FOURTEEN year old. Remember, Phelps at 14 swam the 100 back in 53.03 and this young man Vinny is only 12 and he is under that! I know we can’t look into that too much, but it’s still quite remarkable.
And yes, the 12&U events are timed finals
He might be close to the 50 freestyle, but it will be hard. 50 back NAG is going down. 1:53.4 200 back is hard but very possible for vinny.
watch out for his 1,000 freestyle, probably no nag record but he might break 10 minutes
he has so much versatility, from the 50 to the 1,650 to backstroke and butterfly
Vinny is just getting started he still has the 50 and 200 back two swim watch out!
He was out REALLY fast in the 100 fly 24.5! his best was 24.98
Yes. He will probably break the 50 back and the 200 back records as well.
I will keep an eye on the 50 free record too.
I see there aren’t prelims for 11/12-year-old swimmers at this meet compared for example with Destin Lasco’s meet where there are prelims and finals. Important to note.
I’m gonna lose my mind with all these records! 🙄
I can imagine it for you LOL.. you follow these NAG swims so religiously
AMAZING!
Congrats to Vinny Marciano!
Now Destin Lasco must respond.
Too bad Mr Marciano and Mr Lasco don’t swim against each other.
It could be insane.
Hopefully someone plans the showdown for next summer.
The US backstroke culture is well alive!
Hulk so… weak… only have enough strength for one more…
SMASH.
In all seriousness… what a wild night.