After earning his spot in tonight’s Pan American 50m final via a head-to-head swim-off with Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter, Erik Risolvato, made the most of his lane 8 appearance, finishing in 4th place overall. His time of 22.22 further lowers his own Puerto Rican national record of 22.33 set in that swim-off duel with Carter.
Risolvato’s 22.33 clocking had already broken the 18-year old Puerto Rican national record in the 50m free event, but he dropped another .11 of a second in finals to re-write the records books in a matter of hours.
One-time high school superstar, Risolvato had taken a hiatus from swimming all-together, but came back to the sport in 2014 and has been steadily improving ever since. He dipped under the 23-mark for the first time in two years just last July, clocking a 22.95 at the Florida Gold Coast Championships.
Get More SwimSwam with SwimSwam Magazine
SwimSwam Magazines are big, coming in at nearly a pound per issue. We provide you four massive print issues designed to sit on your coffee table like a piece of artwork. With your yearly subscription, you receive over 600 of pages of swimming’s highest quality print content, and another 5,330+ pages of digital issues, going back to the first issue produced.
He looks so badass