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Melbourne Swimming Club’s Felix Dressel-de Bruyn dropped a blistering swim in the 50 freestyle on Friday during the opening night of competition at the Victorian Age SC Championships.
Dressel-de Bruyn, 18, put up a time of 21.99 to shatter the Victorian Age Group Record for 17-18 boys of 22.20, set by Toby McOmish in 2023.
Dressel-de Bruyn’s previous best time stood at 22.34, set at the Tri-Series Tour meet in Ballarat in July, and he had narrowly missed that with a 22.35 clocking in the prelims.
Last year, he was the runner-up in the 50 free in a time of 22.87, placing 2nd to Caulfield Aquatics’ Campbell Wilson-Moran (22.74), who placed 3rd on Friday in 22.43.
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In the all-time Australian rankings for 18-year-old boys, Dressel-de Bruyn narrowly misses out on cracking the top 10, with Jack Cartwright holding down 10th spot with a time of 21.91.
Earlier in the session, Dressel-de Bruyn defended his Victorian title in the 200 IM, knocking two seconds off his personal best time set last year in 2:00.09.
As evidenced by his success in the 200 IM, Dressel-de Bruyn is an all-around talent. He won medals in the 100 breast (1:03.42), 200 breast (2:16.68) and 50 fly (24.72) at the Australian Age Group Championships earlier this year in the long course pool, where he also placed 6th in the 50 free in a personal best time of 23.35.
There were a number of other Victorian Age Group Records set on Friday:
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Another event with several good results was the Japanese High School Champs (8/17 to 8/20) in LC, where the most remarkable result was the 2.10.50 swum by Mana Ishikawa (born in 2009) in the 200 IM, faster than the winning time of Audrey Derivaux at Junior Worlds a few days later (2.10.58) R015.xlsx
About Australian results, I don’t know if Swimswam has reported those of NSW Speedo SC Champs in late August (from 22 to 24) results by events.pdf , where the just 16 year old Lukas Dunn swam: 54.00 in the 100 IM, 1.58.64 in the 200 IM, 48.73 in the 100 free, 1.01.25 in the 100 breast, 22.33 in the 50 free, 24.95 in the 50 back, 53.69 in the 100 back, 52.91 in the 100 fly and 1.49.98 in the 200 free, all but 200 free Dunn’s results top10 worthy (and often in the top positions) in the Australian rankings for 16 year-old.
I wonder if Lukas Dunn is the son of Matthew Dunn
He is I think
Dressel breaks a record!
We’re all thinking it
Mythical pull last name for a sprinter. Sounds like near fan-fiction!
Dressel AND De Bruiyn??
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That is a goated surname