14-year-old George Smith Takes Down 200 BR British Age Record

2019 BRITISH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

During the men’s 200 breast Junior final of the 2019 British championships, 14-year-old George Smith ripped a 2:21.42 to win and set a new British age record.

Entering the meet, Smith’s lifetime best was only a 2:26.13, putting him as the 22nd-fastest 14-year-old in British history. However, in prelims Smith knocked off 3.35 seconds off that former PB and swam a 2:22.78, qualifying him 2nd into the Junior final.

In the Junior final, the Ellesmere Titan had a tight race with Oxford swimmer Billy Wotton. Into the touch, it was Smith who edge out Wotton by 0.08s to win with a 2:21.42, smashing nearly another second off his prelims PB.

Smith’s winning time also broke Kyle Booth‘s 2016 British age record of 2:22.41, now putting him as the fastest 14-year-old British swimmer in the event. Ranking Smith worldwide for all swimmers age 14 (D.O.B 2004), he is the second-fastest behind Ukraine’s Rostyslav Kryzhanivs’kyy.

  1. Rostyslav Kryzhanivs’kyy (Ukraine)- 2:16.42
  2. George Smith (Great Britain)- 2:21.42
  3. Aleksandr Diakov (Russia)- 2:21.46

*Note: British Swimming shows age on December 31st of this year. Smith will not turn 15 years old until July of this year and is therefore currently 14 years old.

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Nick Pecoraro

Nick has had the passion for swimming since his first dive in the water in middle school, immediately falling for breaststroke. Nick had expanded to IM events in his late teens, helping foster a short, but memorable NCAA Div III swim experience at Calvin University. While working on his B.A. …

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