Max Morgan Breaks British Age Record On Opening 50 of 100 Breast

2025 World Junior Swimming Championships

• August 19-24, 2025
• Otopeni, Romania
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Great Britain’s Max Morgan was out like a rocket in the first 50 of his 100 breaststroke, breaking his own British Age Record in the event en route to his bronze medal.

BOYS 100 BREASTSTROKE – Final

• World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
• World Junior Record: 58.94 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025)
• Championship Record: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)

Top 8 Finishers

1. Filip Nowacki (GBR) – 59.20
2. Shin Ohashi (JPN) – 59.50
3. Max Morgan (GBR) – 59.93
4. Evangelos Efraim Ntoumas (GRE) – 1:00.05
5. Jan Malte Grafe (GER) – 1:00.21
6. Oliver Dawson (CAN) – 1:00.38
7. Gabe Nunziata (USA) – 1:00.54
8. Wang Junteng (CHN) – 1:00.72

Morgan finished 3rd in the event behind country mate Filip Nowacki and World Junior Record holder Shin Ohashi.

Nowacki and Morgan are both 17, which means they are competing for the same age group records in the breaststroke events, and both of them picked up a breaststroke record tonight.

Morgan had the fastest opening 50 split in the field by a large margin, turning in 27.41. This was nine-hundredths faster than the previous record of 27.50 which Morgan set at the 2025 World Championships where he finished 29th in the event.

This is the 5th time this record has been broken this summer, and the 50 breaststroke is still to come this meet.

Morgan first broke the record in April at the British Swimming Championships, swimming 27.64 to take three tenths off Elliot Woodburn’s 27.94 from 2022.

In July, Nowacki broke the record twice at the European Junior Championships. He first broke it in the semifinals, swimming 27.63 to take a hundredth off Morgan’s record. He broke it again in the final, touching in 27.61 to finish 2nd overall.

Morgan took the record back in July, when he swam 27.50 at Worlds, and has now lowered it even further to 27.41 from his opening 100 split.

He is also under the 18-year-old British record of 27.58, which Adam Peaty set in 2013.

The 50 breaststroke will swim prelims on day 5, and both Nowacki and Morgan will get three more cracks at it. Morgan also has the 200 breaststroke later this meet.