2023 DECEMBER HUNTINGTON BEACH SECTIONALS
- December 14-18, 2023
- Huntington Beach, CA
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Mobile: 2023 CA Dec CA CV Speedo Sectionals at GWSC
After breaking Thomas Heilman‘s 13-14 400 IM National Age Group (NAG) record in prelims, 14 year old Luka Mijatovic swam even faster in finals touching the wall in a 3:49.32 tonight.
Mijatovic now becomes the youngest swimmer to break the 3:50 mark and is the fastest 13-14 ever by over two seconds as Heilman has the #2 time now with a 3:51.46
SPLIT COMPARISON
| Mijatovic-Finals | Mijatovic-Prelims | Heilman | |
| Fly | 52.63 | 53.59 | 50.86 |
| Back | 1:00.24 | 59.53 | 59.45 |
| Breast | 1:05.05 | 1:05.17 | 1:08.71 |
| Free | 51.4 | 52.75 | 52.44 |
| 3:49.32 | 3:51.04 | 3:51.46 |
The difference tonight in fianls compared to his prelims swim was both Mijatovic’s fly and free split as he was roughly a second faster on both.
Mijatovic now dropped over six and a half seconds off of his best time coming into the meet of a 3:55.73 from April of this year.
This was Mijatovic’s second swim of the night as he swam the 200 free earlier in the evening, swimming a 1:36.30, a best time by over a second.
Mijatovic is entered in the 500 free, 1000 free, and 200 IM later in the meet. Notably, he broke his own 1000 free NAG record last night while going out in the 1650 free, where he ultimately broke his own NAG by 15 seconds.
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Grimes just went a 4:28 and Weinstein a 4:29 in the 500 free
Luka 4:15
Would have won Jrs West and got 2nd at east 16th in the NCAA right now
Holy. Crap. That’s the best swim he’s produced of his career so far. That is utterly insane
Weinstein less than a second off Katie’s 15-16 NAG record
Called it:
https://swimswam.com/luka-mijatovic-breaks-thomas-heilmans-13-14-400-im-nag-record-in-prelims-with-351-04/
This kid is incredible.
Olympics in 2028 for sure.
It’s still a crazy time, but that mile numbed me!
Man that free split is next level
5th fastest in his heat!! Sandpipers surrounding him
You meant to say 3rd in the finals, not 5th.
5th best freestyle split.