2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
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Competing in the final prelims session of the Fort Lauderdale Pro Swim Series, Andrej Barna shaved 0.05 seconds off his own Serbian Record in the 50 free to claim lane 4 for the final in a time of 21.77. That now puts- him over half a second faster than the #2-ranked Serbian in this event, Olympic silver medallist Milorad Cavic.
Serbian Top-5 50 Free Performers
- Andrej Barna (2025) – 21.77
- Milorad Cavic (2008) – 22.29
- Nikola Acin (2024) – 22.42
- Justin Cvetkov (2024) – 22.59
- Stefan Sorak (2019) – 22.63
Barna first broke the record in this event back at the 2018 European championships, dipping under Cavic’s 22.29 mark with a time of 22.27. Since then he has taken off exactly half a second, breaking the record on seven occasions in total.
He broke the 22-second barrier for the first time in Doha last year with a 21.93, and had already broken the National Record this season. Back in March Barna swam 21.82 at the Otvoreno prvenstvo Srbije meet in his home nation, having gone 22.15 in prelims, so has the potential to drop the mark even further tonight.
The former Louisville Cardinal also owns the national record in the 100 freestyle, setting that standard at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships. He won bronze there in 47.66, behind David Popovici and Nandor Nemeth, and also had a blistering split of 46.86 to propel Serbia to gold in the men’s 4×100 free relay.
The 50 free is Barna’s only event at this championships, so we will have to wait until later in the season to see if he is in record-setting form in the 100 too. He leads a relatively stacked final in the 50 tonight, with Dylan Carter, Michael Andrew and Caeleb Dressel to contend with, but as the only one under 22 in the heats goes in as the firm favourite.
He now ranks seventh in the world this season, moving up from the #9 spot he held previously.
Where is he training these days? Still with Louisville?
He consistently has improved bit by bit over the past few years
He was training with Chris Lindauer at Notre Dame last summer in the lead up to Europeans/Olympics, but seems to be back at Club Vojvodina in Serbia at the moment
Too bad there were not ‘A’ final scratches so the three-way tie for 9th could create a swim-off. It seems sprint swim-offs often produce significant improvements over prelim swims.
David ‘Tolu’ Young (UN-AZ) :22.29 Fiji NR* (Young held prior record from Paris Games at :22.71)
Chris Guiliano (TXLA) :22.29 2024 US Olympian in 50-100-200; PB :21.59
Jack Dolan Sun Devil :22.29 :22.07 PB :18.59 SCY PB; World Cup Bronze in Singapore, :21.00
Young, who just finished his freshman year at ASU, has been making great progress.
Won ‘C’ final of 100 LCM Free in :49.98, dropping prior PB by 1.59 (:51.57)
Won ‘B’ final of 50 Fly at ::23.96, prior PB was :24.47
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Kuronja