2026 Hyack May Long Course Closed Invitational
- May 15-17, 2026
- City Centre Aquatic Complex, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
- Long Course Meters (50 meters)
- Results on Meet Mobile: “2026 HYACK MAY MEET CLOSED INVITATIONAL”
Canada has some really old records on its 11-12 national age group record books, and one of the oldest fell on Friday in British Columbia.
12-year-oldΒ Will Xu from the Wayland Swim Club, pending ratification, has cleared the old mark in the 800 meter freestyle.
His record-breaking swim was done as a split en route to a 1500 free time. His first 800 meters of swim was clocked at 9:02.94, which breaks the old record of 9:04.82. That time was set by Nicholas Richards on August 4, 1984, almost 42 years ago.
Xu’s previous personal best in this race was a 9:10.81 that he did in a non-split time trial swim earlier this month. No splits were published for that race.
Xu may have been going explicitly for the split in this race. The meet schedule does not include an 800 free, and his final time in the full 1500, while fast enough to win the race, was about 24 seconds slower than his personal best.
Richards still holds the 1500 record at 17:05.50 from the same meet as his old 800 record.
Triple Olympic gold medalist Summer McIntosh remains the fastest Canadian ever in this age group regardless of gender, having clocked an 8:51.71 in 2019.
This weekend, with one day of racing to go, Xu has also won the 200 IM (2:22.68), 50 back (32.52), 100 back (1:07.33), 100 free (1:00.31), and 50 fly (29.85).
It will be very exciting to see how this young athlete develops in the coming years. Congrats Will Xu!!
Interesting piece on Nic Richards. MS is a horrible disease, that’s very sad.
Love the mention of Summer’s 12 year age time in the 800; very impressive as usual.
Yes, he will!!
Congrats Will! Amazing feat π best of luck going forward π
I came here to see if there would be downvoting – yep! π You never let me down, SwimSwam.
Wait…WHAT???
You better start explaining yourself Hswimmer! I know you are a regular at SwimSwam.
Hswimmer and his little buddy swimster have an unhealthy infatuation with me. If I comment on my own son they have an issue with it.
His/her statement above is nonsense and its implied message is borderline libel, especially since it is false with me having commented on plenty of article for both youth and adults. Several of which that they are also commenters in the same section so it is lazy and again borderline libel to make the insinuation that was made.
I comment primarily on younger age groupers because:
A- I have met a lot of them or have heard their names since my sons are that age group
B- it gets lame to see… Read more Β»
I went to SwimSwam with this. If I get my way, we won’t see Hswimmer here anymore. And if this keeps up, I’ll keep trying to do the right thing here.
And to be clear, I thought Hswimmer was going after ME. But it doesn’t matter…
I wish you the best of luck seeing resolve. SS is a site that primarily relies on pseudonyms. Seeing as though they can be changed frequently and free emails are bountiful, I donβt see an impactful resolution. I have made it a point to no longer acknowledge these trolls after the last article on one of my sons. I will still support my sons and any age groupers out there striving for big goals and they will likely find that interest worthy and behave in line with the freedoms of anonymity.