Duncan Scott Becomes First Brit Under 48 in 100m Free

2017 BRITISH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Duncan Scott closed Thursday’s 3rd day of the 2017 British Swimming Championships with a 47.90 in the men’s 100 meter free, making him the first-ever Brit under 48 seconds in the event.

Scott split 23.14/24.76 en route to breaking his own National Record of 48.01 – a time he excruciatingly did twice in Rio, once in the heats and once in the finals where he placed 4th. At only 19 years old, he’s also one of few teenagers in history to break the barrier. Australia’s young Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers (47.58 – 18) is the fastest-ever teenager in the event, and Cam McEvoy swam 47.88 at 19 years old in 2013.

In all, he becomes the 37th man under the barrier since Pieter van den Hoogenband first did so at the 2000 Olympics.

Britain becomes the 14th country to put a swimmer onto this elite list. The countries, ranked by their fastest swimmers:

  1. Brazil (Cesar Cielo, Nicolas Nilo)
  2. France (Alain Bernard, Fred Bosquet, Fabien Gilot, Amaury Leveaux, William Meynard, Jeremy Stravius, Florent Manaudou, Yannick Agnel)
  3. Australia (Cam McEvoy, Eamon Sullivan, James Magnussen, Kyle Chalmers, James Roberts, Matt Targett)
  4. Canada (Brent Hayden, Santo Condorelli)
  5. USA (Dave Walters, Nathan Adrian, Jason Lezak, Garrett Weber-Gale, Michael Phelps, Caeleb Dressel, Jimmy Feigen)
  6. Sweden (Stefan Nystrand)
  7. Russia (Andrey Grechin, Vlad Morozov, Evgeny Lagnuov)
  8. Belgium (Pieter Timmers)
  9. China (Ning Zetao)
  10. Netherlands (Pieter van den Hoogenband, Sebastien Verschuren)
  11. South Africa (Lyndon Ferns)
  12. Great Britain (Duncan Scott)
  13. Italy (Luca Dotto)
  14. Japan (Katsumi Nakamura)

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J.O.S.H
7 years ago

China Ning 47.65, Belgium Timmers 47.80

bobo gigi
7 years ago

I don’t know if they have read me but USA swimming added the NAG records’ list to its new website. Thanks to them.
Now if they could also put back their weekly updated list of top 20 age group performers per age (from 11 to 18) and per event in PDF like in the previous version of the website, it would be perfect.

Back to the list above, cool to see that France is the nation with the most sub 48 swimmers in history. It has been more than a decade of a golden generation of French sprinters.

Emanuele
7 years ago

Complete list:
1 46.91 Cielo Filho, Cesar Jan 10, 1987 22 Brazil Jul 30, 2009 1st 2009 World Championships Roma
2 46.94 Bernard, Alain May 1, 1983 25 France Apr 22, 2009 1st FRA Nationals Montpellier (semis)
3 47.04 McEvoy, Cameron May 13, 1994 21 Australia Apr 7, 2016 1st 2016 AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide
4 47.05 Sullivan, Eamon Aug 30, 1985 22 Australia Aug 9, 2008 1st 2008 Olympic Games Beijing (semis)
5 47.10 Magnussen, James Apr 11, 1991 20 Australia Mar 15, 2012 1st 2012 AUS Olympic Trials
6 47.15 Bousquet, Fred Apr 8, 1981 28 France Apr 22, 2009 1st FRA Nationals Montpellier
7 47.27 Hayden, Brent Oct 21, 1983… Read more »

nuotofan
Reply to  Emanuele
7 years ago

Bravo Emanuele!

Emanuele
Reply to  nuotofan
7 years ago

I find on the web, credits to “nuoto all time”

Ragnar
7 years ago

Wait till this guy is 25 and has 15-25 pounds extra muscle on his frame, could be something special(er)

M Palota
7 years ago

Any video of the swim?

JustLoveSwimming
7 years ago

McEvoy was first teenager under 48 at Barcelona with 47.88 for fourth. Only Chalmers, McEvoy and Scott have been under 48 as a teenager

KeithM
Reply to  JustLoveSwimming
7 years ago

Actually Dressel too. He went 47.9 twice in the heats and semis in Rio when he was still shy of his 20th birthday.

WET NOODLE
7 years ago

Marcelo Chierighini from Brazil has also broken 48. You left him off this list.

DDias
Reply to  WET NOODLE
7 years ago

Chieriguini never broke 48 mark.His best time is 48.11(Twice in 2013).

dude 2.0
7 years ago

sick; well done.

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