2026 Australian Age Championships
- April 11-18, 2026
- Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Meet Central
- Heat Sheets
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap/Day 5 Recap/Day 6 Recap
- Live Results
The final day of the 2026 Australian Age Championships saw yet another Australian Age Record go down at the hands of 16-year-old Leny Grigor.
Racing in his age category’s final of the boys’ 100m breaststroke, Somerset’s Grigor ripped a lifetime best of 1:01.40 to grab the gold.
Opening in 29.26 and closing in 32.14, Grigor’s effort held off another age group record holder in Christoper Montana of Trinity Grammar.
Montana split 28.96/32.62 to settle for silver, just .18 behind Grigor, stopping the clock at 1:01.58.
Lukas Dunn rounded out the podium in 1:03.14.
Grigor’s performance this evening not only obliterated his former lifetime best of 1:02.59 from last December’s Queensland Championshps but it also undercut Olympian and former world record holder Matt Wilson‘s age benchmark of 1:01.55 from 2015.
This represents Grigor’s third Australian Age Record of these championshps. The teen destroyed Mitch Larkin‘s 400m IM record with a new PB of 4:16.15 and also registered a 200m IM record of 2:00.53. Girgor also nabbed an Aussie All Comers Record of 2:12.48 in the 200m breaststroke.
I guess a lot can happen between now and Brisbane 2032 but promising that he and other juniors will still only be about 22-24 for those Games.
correct every year the guard is changing among the junior swimmers. There are a lot of swimmers coming out of nowhere so it is impossible to predict who will be there in the future.