Ryan Hoffer becomes first 15-16 under 43 seconds in the 100 free

Ryan Hoffer has his fifth NAG record-breaking swim of Winter Juniors, going 42.67 to break his own 100 free mark on Saturday night.

The Scottsdale 16-year-old became the youngest swimmer to crack the 43-second barrier after swimming to a 43.05 in breaking the record this morning.

Hoffer broke, then re-broke the 50 free in prelims and finals Thursday night, added a 100 fly NAG on Friday night, and now broke the 100 free record twice on Saturday. But this swim, breaking his own record by nearly a half second, has to be one of the most impressive performances yet from the Arizona high schooler.

To put it into perspective, not only is Hoffer the fastest-ever 15-16 in the event by a longshot, he’s only three tenths of a second off of David Nolan‘s National Age Group record for 17-18s without even entering that age group yet.

Hoffer’s time ranks him 8th in the entire nation so far this season for all levels – club, high school, college and professional. He also snaps a meet record set by current Florida Gator freshman Caeleb Dressel last season.

Here’s a look at Hoffer’s splits compared to his morning swim:

  • Prelims: 20.52/22.53 – 43.05
  • Finals: 20.62/22.05 – 42.67

Interestingly, Hoffer actually went out a tick slower at night, but parlayed that into a half-second improvement on his back half.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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